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OSCAR SO WHITE....NOT
Looks like the #OSCARSOWHITE movement has influenced the nominations of this year's Academy Awards. After a two year stint of the majority of the main categories were of non-color status, the Academy registered hundred sof new members comprised of people of color and its President Cheryl Boone Isaacs making an effort to make change.
On Monday, the nominations for the 89th Annual Academy Awards and there were many diverse choices that were selected by the academy resulting in several historical moments. For starters, three of the 8 films nominated for Best Picture have African American content: Moonlight, Fences and Hidden Figures....Moonlight director Barry Jenkins became the first African American director to be nominated for Best Picture and Director and Adapted Screenplay....Viola Davis, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Fences , became the first African American female to be nominated for the Oscar-- three times (the other nods were for her roles in "Doubt" and "The Help.").....and lastly the Supporting Actress category has a first with three of the 5 nominees being of African American descent: Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer ("Hidden Figures") and Naomi Harris ("Moonlight.")
Overall, there is an African American presence in each of the major categories Best Picture, Director, Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actor and Actress.
Another interesting category is Best Documentary where three of the five nominees have African American content or directors: Ava Duvernay's "13th," OJ Made In," and "I Am Not Your Negro." Duvernay should win which will make up for her snub for Director of "Selma" a couple of years ago (and the OScars are notorious at making up).
We think this is a great feat but our question is, would the color prism be there if the hashtag #OSCARSOWHITE movement didnt force it?
Plus, remember when Hollywood was applauding Nate Parker's "Birth of a Nation" film during Toronto Film Festival? It was destined to be the answer to the color challenge, Well, all fell out when those rape allegations of Parker during his college days resurfaced and he refused to apologize for the female who committed suicide when the case was dropped. There was so much hype on this film to be Hollywood's darling that in a way, the conversation would have been if the film was nominated to save face from the hashtag awareness.
We are sure that the film would have been nominated for Best Picture and Parker would have gotten Best Actor nod replacing one of the lesser to win nominated actors (eg Andrew Garfield for Mel Gibson's film' Hacksaw Ridge")
Now onto our thoughts of who will win.
The hype film for this year is LA LA Land, a contemporary musical about actors trying to find work starring Oscar nominees Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. The film was nominated for 14 nominations (tied with Titanic and Ben Hur for the most nods in Oscar history). The film swept the Golden Globes earlier this year winning all seven of its categories (a record for the awards show). The film won Best Comedy or Musical Film at the Golden Globes and its likely it will win Best Picture at the Oscars because its a story about them--Hollywood. Its also a given LA LA land will be the big winner, so its more of how many they will win.
The sleeper film, the coming of age urban drama Moonlight , was close in the most nominations with eight. The film won Best Drama Film at the Golden Globes, but we dont think it will win at the Oscars (even with Brad Pitt's exec producer pull) for Best Picture because of the strong fave LA LA Land and its subject matter: black male sexuality...Will the film win anything? Yes. We think it will win Best Adapted Screenplay as a makeup for La La Land's expected Best Picture win....Mahershala Ali, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor, is strong to win as well.
Viola Davis is guaranteed to win Best Supporting Actress..Its been in the cards for her to win one, and this year is her greatest chance to copping one.
As far a snubs: Denzel Washington (who was nominated for Best Actor but likely will not win) wasnt nominated for directing Fences, but to be honest the only task to direct the film was for the scenic designer changing the theater stage set from the play version to a film setting. Taraji P Henson wasnt nominated for her role in Hidden Figures. Maybe it was because the competition was so heavy this year and the main leads with Henson (Jonelle Monae and Spencer) was a tossup of who would actually cop a nod. And aforementioned....Birth of A Nation.
Now here is our why question for the WHYZ...why was the Bets Picture category able to be expanded to more than eight and not the other categories? We think to help alleviate snubs to make it 10 possible nominees in each category just like Bets Picture (but ironically only 8 were nominated).
But overall, Oscars did good in its diversifying the categories. Lets hope its not just a passing fad.
The awards will be televised on ABC on Feb 26.
So what do you think will happen at the Oscars?
1.Moonlight will not win any Oscars
2.Viola Davis will win her very first Oscar
3.LA LA Land will be the big winner at the Oscars
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http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=588a0a9de4b04d328daf1e18
Devin Collins
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