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15. What do you think about the diversity of the Academy?

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Tue Jan 19, 2016, 03:09 PM

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Oscars 2016: It's time for Hollywood to stop defining great drama as white men battling adversity [View all] kwassa Jan 2016 OP

Didn't "12 Years a Slave" win best picture the year before last? Nye Bevan Jan 2016 #1

shhhh geomon666 Jan 2016 #2

This is because of slavery sauce kwassa Jan 2016 #4

That was great. Thank you. Solly Mack Jan 2016 #8

What about Slumdog Millionaire? oberliner Jan 2016 #21

Slumdog is not an American movie. kwassa Jan 2016 #23

But it won Best Picture oberliner Jan 2016 #37

Is its win a statistical standard, thus denying the premise of the OP? LanternWaste Jan 2016 #45

Excellent question. Let's count how many Best Pic winners fit that since 1980: GreatGazoo Jan 2016 #54

Fair point here however JustAnotherGen Jan 2016 #3

Nice of you to single out the Jewish mogul when calling out Hollywood for making all those blow-up TeamPooka Jan 2016 #5

I think you completely misunderstood her post. kwassa Jan 2016 #13

I don't give a fuck kwassa JustAnotherGen Jan 2016 #19

I think Harvey is the opposite of what she's talking about. He does not make action films often and Bluenorthwest Jan 2016 #40

Good point. TexasMommaWithAHat Jan 2016 #53

I don't know if you are aware of this JustAnotherGen Jan 2016 #18

nope you can just take your Hollywood isn't America stuff and go away. nt TeamPooka Jan 2016 #32

Nope - you go away JustAnotherGen Jan 2016 #33

Blacks make great movies about the black experience B2G Jan 2016 #41

Concussion wasn't that great oberliner Jan 2016 #6

I didn't like it JustAnotherGen Jan 2016 #20

Oscars 2014 oberliner Jan 2016 #7

and no nominations for black actors in the past two years. kwassa Jan 2016 #9

But in 2014 Hollywood defined great drama as Twelve Years a Slave oberliner Jan 2016 #10

Once exception does not disprove the hypothesis n/t Yavin4 Jan 2016 #12

Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture in 2008 oberliner Jan 2016 #17

Okay, since you want to play Yavin4 Jan 2016 #22

That's a really good point and list! JustAnotherGen Jan 2016 #24

There are definitely way more movies about white people than non-white people oberliner Jan 2016 #38

Anecdotal evidence predicated on invalid sampling sizes is LanternWaste Jan 2016 #46

It's not anecdotal oberliner Jan 2016 #51

the only ones not about white men battling adversity are Room and Brooklynn.. kwassa Jan 2016 #57

Did you see Spotlight? oberliner Jan 2016 #60

I would. kwassa Jan 2016 #64

Rachel McAdams played a prominent role oberliner Jan 2016 #65

Do you believe that the best actors all happen to be white people? kwassa Jan 2016 #68

Some years, perhaps oberliner Jan 2016 #69

Slumdog is a British film. kwassa Jan 2016 #39

And the Hollywood Academy Award voters selected it for Best Picture oberliner Jan 2016 #44

and how many years ago was that? kwassa Jan 2016 #56

It was the 2009 Oscars oberliner Jan 2016 #61

What do you think about the diversity of the Academy? kwassa Jan 2016 #15

Not something of particular interest to me oberliner Jan 2016 #16

That is why you miss the point of this entire thread. kwassa Jan 2016 #26

That's one of the things I like about DU oberliner Jan 2016 #35

You don't seem open at all. kwassa Jan 2016 #58

I am trying to make a reasonable argument oberliner Jan 2016 #59

Trade the words Oscar Voters with... lame54 Jan 2016 #11

Boxing Action_Patrol Jan 2016 #14

Straight Outta Compton is simply not Oscar material davidn3600 Jan 2016 #25

Straight Outta Compton is a great movie. Initech Jan 2016 #27

The fact ... MrWendel Jan 2016 #28

I wish I didn't have anything bigger to worry about than the Oscars. NaturalHigh Jan 2016 #29

I wish I didn't care enough to post a response in the thread, too... LanternWaste Jan 2016 #47

You repeat yourself a lot. NaturalHigh Jan 2016 #49

Hollywood where they claim to be liberals , but don't give a damn about diversity Truprogressive85 Jan 2016 #30

Also, could they stop definite great drama as boring, pretentious Inside Showbusiness movies? Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2016 #31

Yep. There are two kinds of movies: "Oscar flicks" and everything else. Lizzie Poppet Jan 2016 #34

I never understood the point of Oscars or the grammys, (awards for art)etc Jarqui Jan 2016 #36

It's time for the rest of us to stop caring about what amounts to a mutual admiration ScreamingMeemie Jan 2016 #42

Will Smith has been trying to win an Oscar for years now ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jan 2016 #43

and Will Smith is a voting member of the Academy since 2007. GreatGazoo Jan 2016 #50

Pursuit of Happyness was Will Smith's second Best Actor nomination, first was for Ali Bluenorthwest Jan 2016 #67

I'm still steamed about The Academy passing him over for "Hitch" Orrex Jan 2016 #66

Seriously. Sick of this passive racist bullshit; not watching AA 'til Jada or Spike say to. ancianita Jan 2016 #48

Interesting discussion about casting Iron Fist on Netflix exboyfil Jan 2016 #52

Captain Marvel should stay as she is Blue_Adept Jan 2016 #62

I think they should make Iron Fist Action_Patrol Jan 2016 #63

One of the problems 1939 Jan 2016 #55