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93% of the Academy is white, 100% of those nominated to the most prestigious awards are white. Two years in a row.

If you simply put the names of those worthy of consideration in a hat and pulled 20 at random, 3 or 4 would be black. Maybe even more.

Perfect example of privilege.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity...ment-after-smith-lee-announce-boycott-w161985

Academy President Releases Statement About Oscars
Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, released a statement on Tuesday, January 19, a day after Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee announced their decision to boycott the 2016 Oscars due to the lack of diversity on this year's nominees list.

"I’d like to acknowledge the wonderful work of this year’s nominees," Isaacs shared in her statement to Us Weekly. "While we celebrate their extraordinary achievements, I am both heartbroken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion. This is a difficult but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes. The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership. In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond."
 
Denzels kid is actually pretty good. Loved seeing him in ballers.
 
Are you guys using online review scoring to talk about best picture nominations?

A 95 percent on Rotten Tomatoes doesn't mean everyone said it's 95 out of 100 as far as movies go.

If you want to rent a horror movie and it gets 60 percent there is a good chance it's a decent movie.

Imdb doesn't even disclose how they get their numbers so they are worthless.
 
IMDB is votes, plain and simple. LOTS of votes.

The top 10 movies as rated by IMDb voters:

1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Godfather
3. Godfather Part II
4. Dark Knight
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Schindler's List
7. 12 Angry men
8: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
9. The Good, the bad, and the Ugly
10. Fight Club

Shawshank Redemption got 9.3/10 from 1,594,513 users. The movie was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Writing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Editing, and Best Music.

Straight Outta Compton has won awards outside the Academy. Best Movie at AFI, for example. It is critically acclaimed.

Maybe I'm picking on DiCaprio's movie too much.

Michael Fassbender was nominated for Best Actor for his role in the Steve Jobs movie. The latest Mad Max movie nominated for Best Picture.

SMH.
 
Denny Crane said:
Michael Fassbender was nominated for Best Actor for his role in the Steve Jobs movie. The latest Mad Max movie nominated for Best Picture.
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It's funny watching Hollywood trying to cash in on you Apple fanboys.

I also saw Mad Max, I liked it but if the academy is going to nominate it for best picture then they should have nominated the new Star Wars. IMO, great action movie but not a great movie. Gladiator was a great action movie that was also a great movie.
 
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SlyPokerDog said:
You sign up for an account and rate what you watch of a scale from 1 to 10.
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I've read their FAQ. It's a weighted average and they don't disclose how they come to it. If they have a movie scored an 8 and you do the math and it comes up 4.5 they won't tell you why.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
It's funny watching Hollywood trying to cash in on you Apple fanboys.

I also saw Mad Max, I liked it but if the academy is going to nominate it for best picture then they should have nominated the new Star Wars. IMO, great action movie but not a great movie. Gladiator was a great action movie that was also a great movie.
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If Mad Max is nominated....that movie had nothing going for it outside of cool cars and visuals. Hated it because of the hype.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
It's funny watching Hollywood trying to cash in on you Apple fanboys.

I also saw Mad Max, I liked it but if the academy is going to nominate it for best picture then they should have nominated the new Star Wars. IMO, great action movie but not a great movie. Gladiator was a great action movie that was also a great movie.
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I think Mad Max was much better than Star Wars. It was unique in story and visuals, whereas Star Wars was pretty generic. Fury Road is more than just an action movie.
 
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Denny Crane said:
But DiCaprio's film was. I see.
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Yes, The Revenant was fantastic. The Oscars reward things that where filmed stylistically and it was undoubtedly a gorgeous film. Some shots in the movie were just insane, I'm not sure how they did them. And the director is Mexican...

Also, The Big Short was a pretty unique and interesting way to do a movie about what most people (like me) would call boring subject matter. It had more than one great performance in it as well.
 
VanillaGorilla said:
Yes, The Revenant was fantastic. The Oscars reward things that where filmed stylistically and it was undoubtedly a gorgeous film. Some shots in the movie were just insane, I'm not sure how they did them. And the director is Mexican...

Also, The Big Short was a pretty unique and interesting way to do a movie about what most people (like me) would call boring subject matter.
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Apparently, Straight Outta Compton is a terrific presentation of material that is uncomfortable to white people.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/18/oscars-straight-outta-compton-snub

After scoring precursor nominations from the Producers Guild, Screen Actors Guild, and Writers Guild — plus a best-of-the-year citation from the American Film Institute — Straight Outta Compton felt destined to become one of this year’s best picture nominees. Until it didn’t: The blockbuster, which earned $160 million in the U.S. and scored mightily with critics around the country, was omitted from Thursday’s Oscar nominations list to widespread dismay.

Compton wasn’t alone in its snub. For the second straight year, every acting nominee at the Academy Awards is white, a fact that caused the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite to trend after the nominations last week. In the days since, Spike Lee — a recent recipient of an honorary Oscar — and actress-producer Jada Pinkett Smith have joined the chorus of voices asking for a boycott of the Oscar telecast due the lack of minority representation among nominees.

“Nobody can accuse the Academy of being racist — but they can be accused of being out of touch with the younger generation,” says the director. “Straight Outta Compton is a masterpiece, probably the best biopic since Amadeus — but many if not most of the Academy can’t fathom songs like “F— the Police.’ I know many members who wouldn’t even see the film because it represented a culture that they detest or, more accurately, they assume they detest. Younger people, even those under 50, are not only fans of the music, but much more willing to try to empathize with the world depicted in the movie. When the Academy expands to an even younger demo, movies likeStraight Outta Compton will stand a chance.”
 
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