Oscar Nominations 2016
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- omahadesigns
Do I care about or even watch the Oscars? No.
Am I surprised by the lack of diversity? Yes.
- MrT0
Documentary and Foreign Language Film are always interesting, the rest you can pretty much see coming.
- CygnusZero49
There wasnt too many exceptional performances by black people this year. It happens sometimes. Theyre not going to shoehorn the dude from straight outta compton in there just for the fuck of it, to shut people up about diversity. You cant run an awards show like that. They pick the very best performances, period. If black people arent getting great roles like Dicaprio does, well thats a different problem that has nothing at all to do with the Oscars.
- Oh, and Spike Lee is a racist turd so no one gives a shit about what that motherfucker thinks about anything. He needs to die already.CygnusZero4
- A great man once said: "If youre black and arent good anything, just rap."weirdname
- how'd you get that green name?CygnusZero4
- Blue father, yellow mother.weirdname
- It's like they want or expect affirmative action applied to the Oscars.mg33
- ^^@weirdname - ahahahahahahahasureshot
- This is a bad take. You are an idiot.jtb26
- @weirdname LOLKrassy
- hahaha ...
that was the perfect answer @weirdnameRamanisky2 - Sorry, you're not an idiot, you are a masterful troll - I respect the difference.jtb26
- the only people bitching are rich entitled black folk. I bet black people don't give a fuck about the oscars and don't watch it.hotroddy
- +1 Cygnus on all points hereterry_cloth
- Can't be a racist when you're part of a minorityjaylarson
- globally - white people are a super minority. White people aren't racist?hotroddy
- here we gosureshot
- I find it weird that they separate the awards into male and female too, as if they were competing on different levels, or aren't competing with each othermonospaced
- should there be, for consistency's sake, a BEST BLACK (FE)MALE ACTOR category? (not racist, just being nerdy)monospaced
- interesting point.sureshot
- mono... you're on to something... lol@weirdname's answer to being green :DPonyBoy
- I mean, acting isn't like track and field, all genders and all races should, technically, compete on the same levelmonospaced
- ^ This.ETM
- We need a best QBN Asian member Award. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lets do it!pango
- I'm not sure. Male and female roles are usually very different, I don't see a problem with giving an award to the best of each.set
- Certainly a sort of gray area. I don't actually have a problem with it, it's just interesting to think about it. I do imagine an award for overall, regardlessmonospaced
- For example, they could have best male actor, best female actress, and best actor in a film overall perhaps?monospaced
- The Oscars is just too white.omg
- If I don't win best Qbn Asian I'm gonna boycott Qbn. And quit my job.pango
- In a world where it's offensive to categorize toys as "boy" or "girl", Mono has a fair point.Gucci
- Ramanisky23
how Idris Elba & Abraham Attah .. (2 fantastic performances)
got overlooked is beyond me- This.sea_sea
- Maybe the Academy doesn't know how to categorize a Netflix movie. I know our film union calls Netflix, Amazon etc...'New Media'FawnDog
- true, there are requirements for a film (even short film) to be submitted, including paid admission screenings, prizes at festivals etc.spl33nidoru
- don't understand how this isn't considered a full length feature filmRamanisky2
- not that it matters, but I don't know if many people even watched thismonospaced
- it is. it was on the list for eligible productions, just didn't get nominated.uan
- @FawnDog true. HBO movies don't ever get nominated, right?bainbridge
- The academy is full of old people, and old people would see this as a direct-to-vhs quality film, not a cinema release.inteliboy
- DRIFTMONKEY1
Movie of the year for me is Sicario. Edge of my seat almost the whole movie. The border cross scene is so intense.
- def in my top 2 this year
loved every bit of it.Ramanisky2 - Sicario put me to sleep.utopian
- you needs cocaineRamanisky2
- I liked it.bainbridge
- def in my top 2 this year
- freedom0
Avatar got nominated for best picture a few years ago. The academy does put undeserving things in as nominations to increase interest.
- freedom0
If Mad Max can be nominated for best picture, Will Smith can be nominated for Concussion.
Mad Max's effects were good, but it had no story and is not the best.
- Oscars nods for editing, sound design & vfx yes but Best Picture seems very odd to me.Ramanisky2
- it is not easy creating a movie that has global appeal (ie. shallow movie with common denominators) but also make it goodhotroddy
- It was a piece of shit movie.ArmandoEstrada
- freedom0
Why so much Mad Max and so little Star Wars?
- amount of time to campaignspl33nidoru
- you cant be serious. star wars is just viewed as kid nonsense. no sw fans ever expect it to get a lot of attention at something like the oscars.CygnusZero4
- The force is offended by you!pango
- Cygnus is right, thoughmonospaced
- The original Star Wars (1977) had 10 Oscar nominations and 6 wins. How exactly is Cygnus right about this?Sep
- The part people don't care about SW winning anything. They just want to watch the movie and do spoiler for everyone else who hasn't watched it.pango
- pango0
No yellow dudes! Wtf!
- more to do with casting than nominating, IMHOmonospaced
- I actually don't care... I just want in the conversation...pango
- Qbn is the only place I hear about Oscar lolpango
- I'm working on tons of Oscars stuff at workmonospaced
- Asians are only in Jackie Chan movies, tech movies or as sexy scheming prostitutes.bainbridge
- Ya every time you see an Asian guy in the movie. He know kong fu... Lolpango
- there's always that guy from The Fast & the Furious franchiseRamanisky2
- oh ya that guypango
- Ramanisky20
- He couldn't memorize his speech?bainbridge
- Cut him some slack, it's not like he's an Academy Award nominee. ;)nb
- LOLRamanisky2
- Stringer Bellmonospaced
- pr22
Oscars are about the very best of the mass culture (sans some foreign films nominations).
News flash: today, mass culture is only a small percentage of our culture.
- georgesIII1
Hey as a black man,
I'm appalled by the lack of pinoy oscar recipients!!
- ok_not_ok2
- If I click the up and down keys, looks like he is shrugging.VectorMasked
- SteveJobs1
Are there projections for when there will be a unified skin color from all the interracial relations occurring over time?
Yeah, cause that'll be a nice advance in humanity - the abolishment of racism - circumstantial as it may be.
- I'm afraid skin color would have to be as exact as a pantone swatch. netflix:
http://officialdarkg…hotroddy - Only then we'll realise we cared for diversity so much we got rid of it entirely.
When? Never. Unlike us, evolution favours and promotes diversity.shaft - http://media2.policy…
http://mic.com/artic…ok_not_ok - I always thought this when I saw Star Trek with all the accents. You'd think in the far future they wouldn't be so diverse.monospaced
- I'm afraid skin color would have to be as exact as a pantone swatch. netflix:
- iCanHazQBN3
Why do these complaining black actors feel owed nominations to their own race? Maybe there just wasn't a black person with a good enough performance to be nominated?
Are we gonna nominate a black actor over a deserving actor simply because we need to fill the "black quota"? Fucking stupid.
I highly doubt the Oscars intentionally left out black actors this year, when years before they had no problem nominating them.
I don't want to be here on this planet anymore. Way too many stupid people walking around like they know shit.
- Probably already been said, but I didn't read everything.iCanHazQBN
- #blackactorsmatterPonyBoy
- political correctnesspablo28
- Probably already been said, but I didn't read a word you said because who gives a fuck about the Oscars?garbage
- ^terry_cloth
- Obviously you care about the Oscars because you clicked on this thread. Look at you trying to be clever. Please don't vote or procreate.iCanHazQBN
- actually dipshit, it's on the homepage. don't you ever get tired off making an ass off yourselfterry_cloth
- * of. But anyways, I did read it and I agree with you. Garbo hit the nail on it's head though, who really gives a fuck about the Oscars, if it weren't fterry_cloth
- For qbn I wouldn't have known about the supposed racial controversy. The sooner people stop fixating on skin color the better for everyoneterry_cloth
- He cared enough to comment!iCanHazQBN
- I also like how you namecall. Really shows your maturity level. I feel like I'm talking to a grade-schooler, lol.iCanHazQBN
- Yea yea, you are far superior to everyone else, you must be so coolterry_cloth
- Well, not everyone else. Just adults who namecall like children do.iCanHazQBN
- while you waste words blathering condescension i skip to the chase and call you a dipshit, which is what you are. see how that worksterry_cloth
- I do see how it works. That's why I feel sorry for you.iCanHazQBN
- Whatevs dipshit, nobody cares how you feelterry_cloth
- formed0
How could Mad Max be nominated for anything? Not that I really care about these awards, but the movie was so overrated to begin with this has to be some joke. 10 nominations?!
- yeah... weird. I enjoyed the film but the major awards nod is not making sensePonyBoy
- Effects, editing, ok.
Best picture, what?bainbridge - Yeah, and even the effects were just meh. This would be reason for boycotting! This is Leonardo's year, though, so no chance they'll win.formed