After 5 years or so in which Hollywood revolved around black nationalist narratives, to the absurd degree that Jordan Peele’s Get Out was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, the 2023 slate is a surreal return to something resembling normalcy.
It’s not good or representative of national tastes, but it’s been a long time since that was the case.
Instead, the nominees represent the usual fare of buzzy movies, The Whale, Tar, Everything Everywhere All at Once, the obligatory nominations for Spielberg’s latest Oscar bait, The Fablemans, a prestigious British entry, The Banshees of Inisherin, and technical sympathy nods for bad Oscar bait, Empire of Light and Babylon. Best Picture nominations for Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar, while unjustified, are a tip of the hat to the movies people actually went to see.
This isn’t a non-woke list, not with Tar still in the game, but it’s the least woke it’s been in years and, notably, there’s a lack of interest in any of the racial Oscar bait. Till’s people are howling. There’s whining about The Woman King not making the cut. (As if a celebration of slave traders is supposed to represent black people.) And insane demands that Jordan Peele’s latest effort, Nope, be recognized.
Apart from a few sympathy nominations for Black Panther II in mostly technical categories, the #OscarSoWhite hashtag is bad. Not that a Marvel movie should have even shown up in any of the acting categories and wouldn’t have if it weren’t wearing race as its marketing skin.
If this sounds like no big deal, that’s exactly right.
It’s business as usual, but compare it to 2022 when Will Smith and Denzel Washington were competing for Best Actor, and Best Picture was a hellscape that included King Richard, West Side Story and Don’t Look Up. Or 2021’s list of nominations for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, as well as Judas and the Black Messiah.
2023’s nominations look like something that could have happened in the oughts. They’re normal. And in the woke dumpster fire that our culture has become, the oughts look pretty good.
Despite the various changes made to increase “representation” among Academy voters, the innate ‘conservatism’ of the members seems to have prevailed this time around.
That may not be much of a barometer for the larger culture, but then again it might.
Wokeness has come before and it can be a cultural fever. After the initial excitement, it may be burning out.
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So all movies made by or featuring Black people are automatically bad. Movies made by or featuring Latinos, women, or LGBTQ people are automatically bad. AND nominations for Top Gun and Avatar are “unjustified.”
Please tell us, then, oh wise one, which movies do deserve recognition. What’s a good movie that the American people actually want to see, in your omniscient opinion?
And don’t say you don’t care about the Oscars, because you obviously do.
Movies are good or bad on their own merits. Rewarding movies based on their perceived race is bad.
Kinda like college admissions, employment and the rest of the last vestige of systemic racism known as affirmative action.
Example of a good movie released this year? Just one example?
assuming you mean ’22, rather than this year, ‘See How They Run’ had some charm
Wow. Ringing endorsement.
Do you even know what you are complaining about anymore?
You’re obviously a moron. Racist movies suck.
racists like racist movies
Which one of the movies nominated for Best Picture this year is racist??
I don’t go to movies, but how about an honest one dedicated to the
human cost of Democrat KKK/Jim Crow and the decimation of the
Black family by welfare and inner city drugs, violence, and bad schools.
Don’t forget the malignant influence of hip hop and insults to Black women.
Don’t forget the toll abortion has taken on Black children and the loss of
respect for human life. Will humankind rise to the good or self-destruct.
We need our Savior.
Well every movie with a fag was bad. As for someone who was chemically and surgically mutilated, I haven’t seen a movie with one of those, but I’ll assume it’s bad.
Did you for real read the article and say in the area inside your skull, “he thinks all movies where any woman was loosely involved was bad”?
Where did you find a “latino” in there? What about a very white “latino” that doesn’t want his kids marrying a black one, does he think movies with them are bad?
Top gun was funny. It didn’t have the most impressive picture of the year, and plenty of video games beat Avatar. The awards aren’t supposed to be about which people went to see, it’s supposed to be the best in each category.
As for Daniel, is it just me or is there a connection between years of having to smell Spielburg’s fart videos that hit the right categories and directing that politically repression on the awards to the point where a Blair Witch Project remake with a cellphone would have won if it painted black people as super-hero-victims.
La Cage Aux Folles (The Bird Cage) was a wonderful movie. Fags galore.
To paraphrase the CRT thugs: Its not enough that they go un-woke, they must become anti-woke activists (and even then will not ever be fully forgiven).
Golden Globes discovered that the hard way.
So just when will they switch to EV and power all of Hollywood with Wind and Solar?
Just hot air.
Of course, nobody said that (except you) and you’re using it to attack people who never said it. By the same token, not all movies made by or featuring black people are great. Yet, here you have “Till” director Chinonye Chukwu accusing the hyper woke Oscars and entertainment industry of being “aggressively committed to upholding whiteness” and claiming, “We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards black women,” because she failed to earn a “Best Director” nomination for the movie. And this sense of entitlement is on display year after year.
Exactly.
If one of the endless award bait identity politics movies aren’t nominated, it’s proof that we’re a racist country.
If they are nominated, we’re still a racist country, it’s just proof they worked so hard (harder than any white person ever would) and got a mere crumb of the table of this racist country.
This routine is getting old.
I may be too traumatized but I am suspicious that some of the wokeness has been toned down. I wonder if they think they’ve won and don’t need to hit us over the head with it anymore.
A lot of the wokes died suddenly or are in torturous pain from neurological damage. Can’t speak much when you can’t use half of your face from eye of the pfizer. One Kaballist a bachur in Crown Heights showed the video with Dr. Rima Leibow was able to see past all the disgusting things with Ace Ventura into the millions of people dying in her eyes I said were clearly there, and I was furious at the time that he said good would come from it.
I don’t know a single person who doesn’t know a nice person that died or has major ongoing complications so I’m still mad, but every day I see outlines of some sort of plan. It’s just wistful thinking to think a bunch of pedo wef globalists working with China would make a jab to kill all the commies, but they did kill a lot of commies. I’m glad at least I told the South Park guys not to do it. Freeking the only people that ever take me seriously.
You worked vaccines into this?
I knew many people who died of Covid starting in 2020 and know no one who had a serious side effect from vaccine however I have there have been some.
But that wasn’t vaguely the topic. Plenty of people especially older people, chronically ill and health care workers were vaccinated and are not at all “ woke.”
Is your obsession and divisiveness helpful to the left? Yes!
You’re messed to write that. Look around the movie industry. They’re dropping like flies. Fine not the vaccine, the other thing causing sudden death and debilitating injury at unprecedented numbers. Every day there’s another commie traitor that sells out hollywood that goes down.
The last word was key, divisiveness. Talking about millions of people dropping dead or losing their lives divides people? I think your fear and the left are both worthless illusions. The only thing that is real is good men fighting unafraid for what is good.
And the biggest thing driving the people still around in hollywood to the right is the vaccines. It’s dividing along the right lines, the fraudulent wine and cheezers vs. real people.
As for “dying of covid”, 0 patients died while taking nicotine or any other snake antivemon.