*“Django” hit the jackpot this year for Oscar nominations. The controversial spaghetti Western/slave flick, however, is not cool enough for the committee to push past its tradition of skipping over great black actors.
Supporting actor Christoph Waltz was nominated and the film got nods for best picture and original screenplay.
However, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get a lick.
While some say Jamie and Kerry were not quite ready for the Oscars, Sam outdid himself this time around, but again, no love.
But if this wasn’t about race, good acting was also totally overlooked, in some opinions. Leonardo DiCaprio, who has been nominated in the past but never won, missed out completely this time around.
Quentin Tarantino was overlooked for best director as well.
But who said this was the “People’s Choice” awards?
Jamie, who has been vocal lately, spoke up about the historical lack of recognition among the Academy Awards.
“A lot of times we’re not nominated when we do honorable work. Because with the slave she [Washington] plays there is dignity in everything she played,” Foxx told thegrio. “It wasn’t subservient; she wasn’t giving up to anything. So a lot of times they do overlook that, they may not want to reward that.”
In other Oscar nom news, Denzel and “Beasts of the Southern Wild” were nominated.
Blacks ignored? Or blacks in Django ignored?
You did no mention Quvenzhane or Denzel being nominated.
You did not mention Quvenzhane being the youngest actress ever in the best actress category.
This has nothing to do with black actors, but this site’s obsession with Django.
I get that vibe too that Black actors/actresses in Django didn’t get an Academy Award.
Black people always forget that white people created these awards and still run them to this day. That is what black people want and then complain. Since these are white owned events, they have opinions too. Just because they gave Quentin the Golden Globe screenwriting award, does not mean they want to give the actors awards for playing slave owners and slaves.
There may be some that feel that there is no acting involved with black people playing slaves / slave owners.
I thought we had gotten much further along race relations… until President Obama was elected.
When you look at the Academy Awards from the very beginning, blacks were not even allowed to sit in the same auditorium, they had to sit and watch from the kitchen. The Academy was founded by and consist of the Jews that have ALWAYS ran Hollywood, and when has it ever been black friendly? The racism didn’t change, it just modernized with time. There was no doubt, Lady Sing the Blues should have taken all of the awards that year but they didn’t. Diana best actress, Billy Dee best actor and Richard Pryor best supporting actor. Even the Color Purple should have won hands down but it didn’t. Hollywood has and always will have an image to uphold and allowing black films to take home the AA will never happen…
Blacks not getting a Academy Award say, I say so what!!!! When awards season (Grammys, Academy, etc.) season rolls around, someone in the press, writes an article about Blacks not getting awards from White award organizations. Instead of Black people begging to be included for an Academy Award or Oscar, Black people in Hollywood should start their own organization and hand out awards or wait for the NAACP image awards, Black Oscars, etc.
We have our own award shows. We go through this non-sense every year around time for the Academy award