Once upon a time, from the time of the inception of the award to about 50 or so years ago, the Academy Awards, or "Oscars" as they are better known as, was quite a truly and astonishingly discriminatory and racist event. Especially black people were routinely shunned from ever getting any significant nominations or wins, and very infamously there were cases were black actors were actually forbidden from attending the ceremony. The racist prejudices of the time were really strong in Hollywood at the time.
Luckily those dark times are long past, and we have since moved to more reasonable egalitarian times, where things like movie awards are granted solely on merit and quality, without any sort of discrimination or preferential treatment based on things like race. Right?
Of course not.
The Oscars have always been a joke, and they keep being a joke. And now that Hollywood at large has contracted the social justice ideology disease, it's only becoming worse. Like always with social justice ideology, they only know extremes. In order to "fix" and "pay for" their past transgressions, they now feel the need to swing to the other extreme, and start shunning, discriminating and engaging in preferential treatment in the other direction, to "balance things out" I suppose. Two wrongs will cancel each other out and make a right, right?
For one reason or another, maybe serendipitously, maybe by pure chance, maybe intentionally, or maybe by a combination of all of them, the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Black Panther for some reason became the epitome of modern social justice (even though the film itself doesn't really deal with real-life social justice ideology; at least not overtly and blatantly). For some reason it became really popular among, and a symbol for black people in the United States.
(Many people have pointed the irony that the film depicts an extremist society that epitomizes everything that social justice should be against: A deeply ethno-nationalistic isolationist traditionalist conservative monocultural society that's heavily anti-immigration, anti-refugee and anti-diversity, where the vast majority of foreigners and outsiders are not welcome. But of course since this particular society happens to consist of black Africans, then it's A-ok in the eyes of social justice ideologues. They are allowed to be totalitarian fascists, and they will be lauded for being such.)
At the time of its release, the social justice pressure, especially among journalists, around this movie was really strong. Any film critic who did not award the movie full points was verbally attacked and harassed by the rest of the critics, and pressured into changing their score. Anything other than maximum points was not allowed, even if it was 9.9 out of 10. It was absolutely ridiculous. (Some time later, when all that fuzz had quieted down a big, some critics dared to give it lower scores. Not too low, of course, but at least a bit.)
While the film itself isn't really any sort of racial or social justice propaganda, the mainstream media and social justice warriors made it de facto social justice propaganda. Anybody who even dared to criticize the film was immediately socially punished.
And, of course, it had to receive tons of Oscar nominations. Including a nomination for best picture. It would be unthinkable if it didn't.
The movie might not be the most horrendous movie ever made by any stretch, but even nominating it for "best picture" is just ridiculous, and quite clearly done because of the political pressure surrounding it, not because it really deserved it. I suppose even the people deciding the winners couldn't go as far as to actually granting it, so it didn't win. But they did grant it three other Oscars to compensate. The three Oscars are relatively minor ones (best costume design, best original score, and best production design), and I doubt the movie even deserved any of them, but I suppose they had to do something to placate the social justice masses. This way they can keep selling the movie as a "winner of 3 Oscars" (as if that meant anything).
I'm certain that the upcoming Captain Marvel movie will also receive, at the very least, some Oscar nominations, for the exact same reasons. Political pressure.
Like the Nobel Peace Prize, the Oscars are nothing but a joke.
Luckily those dark times are long past, and we have since moved to more reasonable egalitarian times, where things like movie awards are granted solely on merit and quality, without any sort of discrimination or preferential treatment based on things like race. Right?
Of course not.
The Oscars have always been a joke, and they keep being a joke. And now that Hollywood at large has contracted the social justice ideology disease, it's only becoming worse. Like always with social justice ideology, they only know extremes. In order to "fix" and "pay for" their past transgressions, they now feel the need to swing to the other extreme, and start shunning, discriminating and engaging in preferential treatment in the other direction, to "balance things out" I suppose. Two wrongs will cancel each other out and make a right, right?
For one reason or another, maybe serendipitously, maybe by pure chance, maybe intentionally, or maybe by a combination of all of them, the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Black Panther for some reason became the epitome of modern social justice (even though the film itself doesn't really deal with real-life social justice ideology; at least not overtly and blatantly). For some reason it became really popular among, and a symbol for black people in the United States.
(Many people have pointed the irony that the film depicts an extremist society that epitomizes everything that social justice should be against: A deeply ethno-nationalistic isolationist traditionalist conservative monocultural society that's heavily anti-immigration, anti-refugee and anti-diversity, where the vast majority of foreigners and outsiders are not welcome. But of course since this particular society happens to consist of black Africans, then it's A-ok in the eyes of social justice ideologues. They are allowed to be totalitarian fascists, and they will be lauded for being such.)
At the time of its release, the social justice pressure, especially among journalists, around this movie was really strong. Any film critic who did not award the movie full points was verbally attacked and harassed by the rest of the critics, and pressured into changing their score. Anything other than maximum points was not allowed, even if it was 9.9 out of 10. It was absolutely ridiculous. (Some time later, when all that fuzz had quieted down a big, some critics dared to give it lower scores. Not too low, of course, but at least a bit.)
While the film itself isn't really any sort of racial or social justice propaganda, the mainstream media and social justice warriors made it de facto social justice propaganda. Anybody who even dared to criticize the film was immediately socially punished.
And, of course, it had to receive tons of Oscar nominations. Including a nomination for best picture. It would be unthinkable if it didn't.
The movie might not be the most horrendous movie ever made by any stretch, but even nominating it for "best picture" is just ridiculous, and quite clearly done because of the political pressure surrounding it, not because it really deserved it. I suppose even the people deciding the winners couldn't go as far as to actually granting it, so it didn't win. But they did grant it three other Oscars to compensate. The three Oscars are relatively minor ones (best costume design, best original score, and best production design), and I doubt the movie even deserved any of them, but I suppose they had to do something to placate the social justice masses. This way they can keep selling the movie as a "winner of 3 Oscars" (as if that meant anything).
I'm certain that the upcoming Captain Marvel movie will also receive, at the very least, some Oscar nominations, for the exact same reasons. Political pressure.
Like the Nobel Peace Prize, the Oscars are nothing but a joke.
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