Bill Mumy dismissed as a member of the Motion Picture Academy

[Shaka Zulu]

MALCOLM X and A SOLDIER'S STORY, certainly.

Also Do The Right Thing, Just Another Girl ON The IRT, Glory, and a few others.

Yet the evidence suggests otherwise. If lack of racial diversity is their real problem, why'd they wait till this year to make it an issue? I'm sorry, but this isn't an isolated case, people attribute their anger to something other than the real cause all the time. It's just Attribution Theory. If a populist film was the frontrunner nobody would complain, and if films with black actors were the frontrunners but were not populist films, everyone would still be complaining.

There are a few people who are honestly angry about racial diversity, but most people just project their existing anger about not having seen the nominees onto the racial issue. How many people have you met in real life who say what they're actually mad about when attributing it to something else is more popular?

Can you honestly tell me there are films with black casts that are similar to the kind of films that tend to win Oscars? There were populist films with black actors, but populist films rarely win Oscars. The bias here is a funding bias and a casting bias, not a voting bias.

In my profession a disproportionate amount of jobs go to Indians. This isn't bias, a greater percentage of Indians enter the industry.

Black actors and black directors do not have equal opportunity to make the sort of films that win Oscars. Equal opportunity is what's important, not arbitrary racial quotas.

It's not only just this issue about black actor and film directors, as I've said before, it's also about other genres as well; the awarding of Best Animated Film two years in a row to two Disney films only shows how out of date these Academy members are. But the treatment of Selma last year and the lack of opportunity for blacks, other minorities and women over time should have served as a wake-up call to these voters months ago, and didn't. Hopefully, it will do so now, and it will serve those that are left to either get with the times-racially and socially, or forfeit the right to vote, past experience be damned.

As for equal opportunity, let's see it at the studio level in executive positions, for minorities and women.

 

[Takeru]

It's not only just this issue about black actor and film directors, as I've said before, it's also about other genres as well; the awarding of Best Animated Film two years in a row to two Disney films only shows how out of date these Academy members are.

There were some comments about that that made me furious, they were anonymous but made by academy voters, one referred to The Tale of Princess Kaguya as "chinese crap" iirc ... ignoring the fact that the movie is japanese and that Japan and China are separate countries the movie was phenomenal with a great art style, even if someone does't think it was the best, IT WAS NOT CRAP!
There was also a comment (I don't remember if it was by the same person or another) that they vote for the movie that their child or grandchild enjoys the most ... WTF?! And people like that are allowed to vote, they don't even have the slightest clue what they're voting on.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Informed voting, requires proving that you are informed.

100 multiple choice questions and three short essays... Per vote.

They'll have to order less comp champagne for the party on the big night to pay for the markers and peer review.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

There were some comments about that that made me furious, they were anonymous but made by academy voters, one referred to The Tale of Princess Kaguya as "chinese crap" iirc ... ignoring the fact that the movie is japanese and that Japan and China are separate countries the movie was phenomenal with a great art style, even if someone does't think it was the best, IT WAS NOT CRAP!
There was also a comment (I don't remember if it was by the same person or another) that they vote for the movie that their child or grandchild enjoys the most ... WTF?! And people like that are allowed to vote, they don't even have the slightest clue what they're voting on.

Think that's bad, you should see the people they let vote for president!

 

[WiredPlanet]

Sylvester Stallone is nominated for playing Rocky Balboa for the seventh time.

Well just as long as Snoop Dog don't become a poster buy for the Regressive Left

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I have seen every Fantastic Four movie ever made

You have seen the Roger Corman the "King of the B-Movies" version?

 

[Guy Gardener]

That was me, and yes of course, it's not like I've been banned from Youtube.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

There were some comments about that that made me furious, they were anonymous but made by academy voters, one referred to The Tale of Princess Kaguya as "chinese crap" iirc ... ignoring the fact that the movie is Japanese and that Japan and China are separate countries the movie was phenomenal with a great art style, even if someone does't think it was the best, IT WAS NOT CRAP!
There was also a comment (I don't remember if it was by the same person or another) that they vote for the movie that their child or grandchild enjoys the most ... WTF?! And people like that are allowed to vote, they don't even have the slightest clue what they're voting on.

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The exact quote was 'Chinese fucking things' in reference to The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea. And yes, that's what I mean by 'being out of it', and for a lot of things over the years, too.

 

[Mudd]

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Well just as long as Snoop Dog don't become a poster buy for the Regressive Left

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What ... what's that got to do with my statement about Stallone?!

Second, what's the "Regressive Left" (seriously, thanks to atlantalliance, I cringe every time I hear or read that label) got to do with this whole discussion?

 

[Gov Kodos]

Well just as long as Snoop Dog don't become a poster buy for the Regressive Left

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What does any of that have to do with Sylvester Stallone?

 

[Peach Wookiee]

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The exact quote was 'Chinese fucking things' in reference to The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea. And yes, that's what I mean by 'being out of it', and for a lot of things over the years, too.

...is it so hard to know the country of origin of what you don't like?