6 May 2023 10:23 pm
Xavier, I have to side with the majority of NHB. You're a complete imbecile.Xavier_Onassis » 06 May 2023, 6:22 pm » wrote: ↑ Should men be included in the Miss America Pageant? BET is designed to be exclusionary. Like the American Kennel Club.
The Academy has decided that its awards will no longer be exclusionary. The Academy does not work for you or me, it represents all the people who make movies.
The Oscars are awards presented by the Academy for what the academy considers the best in a a wide variety of categories.
For many years, Black people, Asians, and Latinos were basically excluded, except for a few Latinos that changes their names like Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino), whose father was Spanish Romani.
Westerns almost never got an Oscar. Science fiction and cartoons were never considered at all.
Of course, acting in most Westerns and Sci Fi films was pretty awful.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is composed of a huge range of actors, camera jockeys, set designers, musicians, Foley artists, best boys and other technicians. The goal is to recognize talent in as many aspects of the creative skills as the members of the Academy possess.
The goal is NOT to please narrow-minded bigoted twits that refuse to recognize what people that know nothing about making films might like.
There is no obligation on your part to watch the Academy Awards shows or to watch any film, for that matter.