The Oscars Somehow Just Got Even MORE Woke

[@Burkuagh1]

When I was a kid everyone got excited about the Oscars and it was almost like a holiday in itself, now I literally don't know a single person that cares or even notices when it is on.

[@harryscarry6064]

Oh me too. It was the highlight of my year. Now I don’t care less. Politics and art do not mix.

[@thecamillarose9806]

I used to love them too I wanted to be a cinematographer in my teens. So sad to see it change

[@Rayvn7]

Yes but that's because there were literally zero movies and shows to be excited about for a decade before wokeism existed.

[@desertrose0601]

So…. a movie getting an Oscar now probably means it wasn’t a good movie. Great. Well done. 😂

[@DickDebonaire]

Why don't they just give participation trophies to everyone in in that industry. Or is that the plan?

[@annapuppy899]

I thought it meant “don’t stream this one” for the last few years?

[@gissellest333]

Tbh a lot of the movies that have won over the decades haven’t been the best.

[@NinaWTF]

​@@gissellest333 true they already had an agenda to them.

[@Thedarkbunnyrabbit]

'Oscar bait' has been a term for garbage movies that are designed to get an oscar for decades now. This isn't new.

[@tracymctyer6741]

I’m a “black” girl and your content is so refreshing. Found you via the Jordan Peterson interview. Keep up the great work. Most Americans share your views and aren’t bigots for it. Happy bday, by the way!

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

That term has lost its meaning and now become but a sIur

[@bloodfortheebloodgod5535]

As a gay woman, I'm very offended that the Oscar's is treating us like toddlers. I can watch a movie centered around straight men and still enjoy it. The Oscar's are taking away creative freedom, and it's so heartbreaking.

[@brianmouland209]

I am straight and will watch a good movie with gay themes

[@Daniels86711]

Just make movies with good stories. Making entire movies trying to force in some political statement creates poop movies. I watched brokeback mountain a year ago (I'm late) and it was a great film. Peoples sexuality needs to not be the main theme. Nothing feels original or good the last few years in cinema.

[@americanmade7997]

Same. Id NEVER want to get a promotion at work simply because I'm a gay woman. I give 110% at work every day..Ive always been proud to have a great work ethic and go above and beyond... and its very rewarding to be noticed for it. I'd be proud to say that my work ethic was a huge factor in me getting a future promotion. I can't even comprehend the thought of being proud of a promotion because I'm such a great dyke!! Like wtf does that have to do with work performance? Nothing. It's disgusting what the Oscar's are doing, it's disgusting what any company is doing in regards to rewarding people for the race, gender and sexual preference. It's weird as shit!!

[@redfernpixelgnomepitcher1377]

What's you being gay and/or a woman got to do with anything?

[@bloodfortheebloodgod5535]

@@americanmade7997 literally. I say all the time that I don't want people to like my art just cause I'm gay and a woman. It's so insulting. I really miss the days where people were judged on the basis of their character rather than if they're a minority. I also say all the time that real gay people don't want to be above anyone. We simply want to be at the same level, so idk why people try to put us on such a high pedestal.

[@Aureliosb]

The Oscars have become a joke. Nobody watches them anymore. The most anyone watched the Oscars in recent years was the Chris Rock replay slap. As a gay man of Mexican & Native decent, I don't need to be "represented" in every single thing. It feels like forced pandering & it's annoying.

[@optitom9033]

As a third generation Californian gay man I couldn't agree with you more

[@Youknowwhoyounopoo]

I agree with you. I have never felt the need to be represented. As a little kid, I never felt bad that the princesses in the fairy tales did not look like me. I would pretend and make my story go off to on a fun tangent. I am Asian and I always tell people that if I get to a point where a biopic is being made about me, and they want to cast Scarlett Johansson or Angelina Jolie want to play me, PLEASE DO NOT HINDER THEM. I'm all for it! And don't try to make them look like me either lol.

[@hsss1]

Celebs are a joke.

[@meganchambers8108]

Unless Will Smith slaps someone, I just Google who won the Oscars the next day. I'm curious but don't have the patience to sit through an hours long award ceremony.

[@99999myk]

@@meganchambers8108 That's exactly what I do. The Oscars are too PC anymore and most of the films that are up for one are films that don't interest me.

[@oldgamer1299]

Simple for me, if anything looks like it's remotely WOKE don't watch it. No viewing figures

[@immune18]

exactly, it is working too.

[@hsss1]

Just turned off the baseball.

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

Which means ∆ntlwhl te.

[@tiba2603]

Same

[@nonenone4618]

I'm a Vet. I've never gotten Veteran's day off. You get a race day and you think it's special? I joined the military, I worked at it. What did you do? Get born with a race card. I'm so tired of this shit. We make days for no reason. We used to make days for people that make a difference. Mothers, Fathers, Labor, Vets, people that work to make the world better. Now we give whole months to people that make NO better difference in our world. They just whine and complain.

[@raymondmeyers8983]

Interesting how not one of the Oscar “requirements” is that the movie must actually be good.

[@hsss1]

Or ....starring Dylan Mulvulva.

[@timkeller0000]

I know it's a bit cringe worthy but when they were talking about all the great movies that wouldn't qualify today it occurred to me that "Gone with the Wind" meets the criteria. Looking at it now, it's a bit hard to take with the way it glosses over and even romanticizes slavery and racism. But, a part of me can't help but smile imagining the woke left seeing it nominated and doing their best "nazi who just opened the ark of the covenant" impression.

[@moobaa420]

Ben Kingsley was born with the name Krishna Pandit Bhanji. His father was an Indian man and his mother was an English woman. His father was born in, what is now, Kenya to parents that were from Jamnagar, a city in the West of India. What was the issue with him playing Gandhi?

[@IzzySalami]

@moobaa420 Most people just assume he’s white based off his stage name.

[@anisemarsh274]

Good grief! I'm black and ignored it. I wasn't a slave. But you give us an extra day off- OK .

[@Beachbum471]

Thank you for recognizing that! I am White but I surely didn’t do that to you 👍

[@redfernpixelgnomepitcher1377]

Is it seriously a holiday? From the segment I couldn't tell if they were joking... really? One can take the day off?

[@Brii98]

I’m not going to complain about an extra day off

[@terrenea.davenport7155]

@redfernpixelgnomepitcher1377 lol, it is in fact now a federal holiday. Just sad 😔

[@TorrenceKingman]

I've offered you an alternative and solution.

[@MrBdc555]

As the years go by, art gets more and more soulless. Everything has to be political and "teach us" . I remember when media and art was made to be enjoyed and not to push woke propaganda and was made as the artists just love making art.

[@Songer80]

That's why so many people are watching Kdramas and movies. They're not woke and entertaining.

[@jeffersonhassan4558]

I don't agree with the Oscar's new policy but as Scott said,if you are an artist,then your goal shouldn't be to win an award,let your art speak for you so that you yourself can be proud of what you have done,that right there is the definition of a true artist

[@sydneykendall7125]

I agree. It may be more difficult to raise the money for such a project and to attract advertising, but life is full of stories of people who have accomplished more difficult tasks than that.

[@courtneyfrost915]

Yeah, but at the same time, their art will not get the kind of funding or advertising that this new proposed norm will. Even good independent films get far less viewers than films that come from the establishment. This is yet another way to halt the freedom of speech and expression, of those they don't agree with.

[@jeffersonhassan4558]

@@courtneyfrost915 one of the reasons why crowdfunding exists,just make your goal known......Terrifier was made from crowdfunding

[@RobertLofrano]

I haven't watched that shit show in over 30 years.

[@totally100darthvader7]

I agree, it just sucks that I will never get the chance to win an award for my passion.

[@telbel4979]

Thank god for books that have already been written. They're the last bastion of creative fiction without censorship. Let's hope that we don't have to have secret libraries!

[@pisces89]

In the Uk now they are re writing old literature by some amazing authors so it doesnt “offend” the woke. Look it up, nothing is safe these days…

[@BridgetStuart]

that day is coming

[@pisces89]

@@BridgetStuart Its already happened in the UK, they have sensored copies of some really famous authors…

[@black-aliss]

I'm more worried that the new stuff being written *won't* require censorship. Recent young adult and sci-fi is already quite bloodless.

[@dreamweaver1603]

Buy books and not e-books, and hold onto them.

[@Waffles2009]

I just love, LOVE, how we have MONTHS dedicated to certain groups of people that we see as Minority, and ONLY A DAY for people who died for this country, people who actually FOUGHT for the souls that get a month for nothing. Shame, shame.

[@Beachbum471]

I’m going to get trolled for agreeing with you but it’s Soo true

[@Selena-ei8cx]

Actually not only do we have Memorial Day and Veterans Day. But the month of May is National Military Appreciation Month. For all people who are in the military, Veterans, and those that died for our country. It's a shame many, many, people don't know that. It's important that Americans know this.

[@Beachbum471]

@@Selena-ei8cx Absolutely! Let’s just celebrate those who made America great and stop whining about if you got a “boo” “boo “ along the way.,,

[@sarahl9209]

And one day for women that now features a lot of men, the same men who get this whole month.

[@brianmouland209]

I am white and straight, where are my days?

[@ollielee493]

The Oscar thing reminds me when my brother in law wrote a book and the publisher rejected him because his book didn't have any LGBTQ+ characters.

[@staceymcdonald4965]

i have a friend who ubmitted a screenplay or manuscriipt cant remember but what i do remember is that they aid it wasnt diverse enough. write from what you know so its believable right? Hes a jewish kid from brooklyn, a bar mitzvah boy, jewish friends, jewish family some from concentration camps not much intermixing yet that sounded like it needed diversification. yeah lets diverify the pograms, ghettos and gas chambers, dont forget about the hebrew schools. such woke idiots.

[@dreamcatchernewjeansstan]

as a lesbian I really want to read your brother's book and I hope he doesn't give up writing. All people should have a freedom to choose their own values just like I can choose mine your brother in law should be able to choose his

[@siyabongabhebhe7403]

I'm writing an animated series and I hope I don't face the same for not putting them in due to my religious beliefs. I just want to make an enjoyable series that isn't preachy on politics is just there to entertain.

[@fattygonzolas]

I teach at an all black school, and the elementary schoolers had these Juneteenth coloring pages on Friday. The coloring page had a little boy with an Afro wearing some African garb holding a Juneteenth sign. I saw one little boy had colored this kid with white skin and a brown Afro. It was adorable. I wonder if he just doesn’t think about skin color yet.

[@gingerlee726]

OR he's racist?! Sarcasm

[@KnowingHeart613]

And he never should

[@albundy8192]

did you honor pride month on same day

[@hsss1]

Theyre trying hard to teach him.

[@courtneyfrost915]

There are all black schools? Is this by design, or the community they live in being mostly Black?

[@positivelysimful1283]

Dead Poet Society is one of my fave films, it was nominated for best picture, and it would not qualify... but this film about wealthy students at an upper class boarding school for boys in the 1959 would make zero sense if it attempted to change things to qualify. What a shame, so many movies that will not be made that might have been brilliant simply because no one is gonna wanna do the work or fund the work because it won't qualify for an award.

[@pinkkitten_nails]

I love that movie too such a good one

[@user-no2mz9hl4f]

Here’s a novel idea: in order to qualify for Best Picture, you have to make a really good film. Engaging story, quality writing, believable acting. Good camera work, editing, CGI, special effects, set and costume design, scoring. And how about, when casting for a role, you judge actors based on the quality of their work? This does not happen on the forefront of casting, because every time, directors have an idea about how a character looks, so they send out calls looking for a specific height, build, skin tone, and hair colour/length/texture. Maybe, you send out casting calls based on the character’s personality and archetype instead? That might cast a broader net in regard to race, and the CD’s might find themselves surprised by who they choose and what he looks like. My favourite characters (of any race) are those characters that are not an archetype of their race. I don’t want to see a story about a black man; I want to see a story about a man who happens to be black (or white, or latino). Also, we’ve really fallen when it comes to writing good stories. It’s rare that I see a film with an original story that I find moving, funny, or inspiring. I don’t care if the story features a woman or someone with a disability; I care that it’s good. I want to be transported. I want to be moved to laughter and/or tears. I want to feel things. That should always be the bottom line. My favourite tv shows are all pre-2010’s, because that’s when tv started becoming heavily political or raunchy. I haven’t seen a good kids’ film since I was a kid myself.

[@hsss1]

Wheres the Wokeness in that. Biggot. Eddit 😉

[@midi_enjoyer]

im a middle eastern from qatar, muslim (for the points sake i say that) as an artist this adds a limitation to the story to be creative and natural. this really isn't about art anymore, we keep being disappointed. i live in qatar but anything good or bad in america eventually spreads to other countries one way or another, which is why its concerning even to me. really hope things gets better and it can, people just need to open their eyes and minds, just think a little harder please.

[@BrookeDoesScience]

Today I celebrated Juneteenth by not working, seeing my baby in an ultrasound with my husband, and going for a walk. Not sure how to open up spaces for black people to speak when my friends of color were busy getting wasted and complained on social media today 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@hsss1]

Holy crap thats gold.

[@Rayvn7]

Ummm okay. But that was allegedly about black people, not about people who dyed their hair.

[@BrookeDoesScience]

@@Rayvn7 I didn’t say anything about people who dyed their hair??

[@hillaryplatt8235]

We told our gardener and the laundry lady here in Central America that we had the day off, they said that America is such an amazing country because we get an extra day off for Father's day. I corrected them, but I didn't really want to 😂

[@awsambdaman]

That’s hilarious

[@wjmackenzie955]

My juneteenth celebrations was hunting down the cellphone I had lost in the taxi. I got it back. Taxi driver found it. By the time he did, battery was dead. He plugged it in and waited... so, got my phone back, and got it back fully charged. Dude was awesome.

[@teelurizzo8542]

I can't believe the Oscars gone full wokester. This compelled, mandatory quota to 30% of 'inclusivity' and 'equity' and 'representation' for marginalized minorities is unbelievable and if I hadn't read it myself I wouldn't believe it. Like you guys mentioned this is activism masquerading as art/entertainment .

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

It's all about Why te Er∆sure.

[@Chicago48]

They'll change it in 2-4 years. There will be such a backlash. The movies released this year that are top tier Best Movies do NOT have black or Asian Actors in them. For example Oppenheimer about the nuclear bomb, doesn't have a black lead.

[@99999myk]

I'm sure all black films won't have to comply with the new rules.

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

@@99999myk indeed

[@kikusama]

I grew up watching various TV shows and movies and I NEVER felt "that person represents me" or "I wish i could understand this person... if only they looked like me!" It was about their character and personality (what a concept) and how they overcame whatever obstacle(s) they had. TV shows I grew up watching and loved! (based on story NOT on skin color): Family Ties Family Matters Home Improvement Fresh Prince of Bel Air Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Star Trek and more...

[@KristinRyans]

Same 😂.. i am white ( on top of all not just white as in race, but albino…so really really fair skin and hair) 😀 i was a 90s early 2000s child.. I didn’t even know the internet existed until age 12! I always related to the characters..The Cosbys, dr Doolitle, Sister Act, Family Matters, Sister Sister, Different Strokes, fresh prince of Bel Air, The Proud family, the Rugrats had a black girl called Susie Carmitchel i loved her, I loved and related to ALL the characters.. even tho I didn’t get some jokes that are common in the black community, and didn’t know anything about racism and slave history because i was born and raised in Bulgaria 🇧🇬 in Europe.. and I’d never even seen a black person in real life..but only on TV, i still related to those characters because they are human!! And later on in my teen years… Princess Tiana in princess and the frog, the boy from the Spiderverse… the Cleveland show.. i loved all these shows! Did i complain that the characters are black and did not represent me? Especially as an albino girl? NO, i just loved the movies for what they are…good story, interesting characters, pleasant to watch and not filled with political agenda! And that’s how most black people used to feel too about movies with white people in them, they used to buy white doll characters, dress as white princesses , etc etc…until the in the 2010s the leftists started many movements and propagandas that brainwashed black peoples to think that they’ve been hated for decades… and turned races against each other..and if you are black they told you and still keep telling you “you should only buy black characters merch, toys, kids clothes with only black characters…listen to only black peoples music, eat more ethnic african and carrebian foods..even tho you’ve never set a foot in those countries and don’t even know where they’re on the map…but do it anyway because YOU ARE BLACK and you should support this culture and hate all others! Is just disgusting what they’re doing! People should love each other , and stop fighting about race…stop judging a book by its cover and start looking at people’s personality and actually traits that matter! So sad these innocent times are gone, is not hatred everywhere all the time and people and schools and media are teaching their kids this stuff, and i am honestly dreading the future!

[@scarlett19b]

@kikusama *How about Charmed!?*

[@kendallrivers1119]

I grew up with all those too and agree with you. I will also add that other than skin color not mattering when watching and loving tv and movies neither does age. I'm 29 but love and watch plenty of shows and movies way before my time and are black and white like The Andy Griffith Show, Perry Mason, The Addams Family, To Kill a Mockingbird, It's a Wonderful Life etc. It just doesn't matter. A good story is a good story and good characters are good characters.

[@scarlett19b]

@@kendallrivers1119 *I wholeheartedly agree!*

[@Sickandtired34]

@@scarlett19bloved that, but Alyssa Milano is a moron.

[@purplefreak3]

That mean Howard the Duck could win a Oscar? Because it has a duck and woman as the main characters.

[@mlamarana]

Would movies like The Departed and Gangs of New York qualify? Probably not 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ let say goodbye to great movies and say hello to diversity hiring 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[@kora4185]

Lord of the rings and titanic would be snubbed today lol complete madness

[@mlamarana]

@@kora4185 YEP!!

[@baconsarny-geddon8298]

I haven't looked at race, but I DID look at sex/female roles in some of the most "classic" "important", critically-acclaimed movies of all-time, and many of the most respected movies in Hollywood history had exactly ZERO female speaking roles. -Apocalypse Now (in the original theatrical cut. Copolla added like an hour to the director's cut/"Redux", in the 90s, which includes a few minor female parts) -12 Angry Men -Reservoir Dogs -The Treasure of Sierra Madre -The Thing (1982 version- The 50's original had a female scientist) -Das Boot/The Boat -Hunt for Red October -Lawrence of Arabia -Deliverance -Patton -Master and Commander -The Great Escape (And Dr Strangelove, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Cool Hand Luke all only had one minor female part) These are like half of the most important movies of the 20th century. Passing over them, because they don't meet diversity quotas, is like passing over the Mona Lisa or Venus de Milo... tbh, Oscars were NEVER really a great guide to decent movies. Because people TRYING to make "Oscar-bait" is pretty much a guarantee of a wanky, pretentious fart-huffing movie... But that's gonna get WAAY worse, now they have a literal list boxes to check off.

[@get2rog]

White plus size British actress Hattie Jacques (mostly remembered for the 'Carry On' films) named herself after Hattie McDaniel as she admired her so much as a plus sized woman who proved you don't have to be the stereotypical slim beauty in Hollywood to win an Oscar during those times. She was a source of inspiration to her.

[@dieselcat7567]

Wonder how Nolan's upcoming "Oppenheimer" is going to fare under these constraints. 🤔 🙄 It's one of the few movies I am genuinely looking forward to as a cinematically artistic treat.

[@ComedianJoJo]

Should a holiday for any specific group be federal? It seems more devisive than a celebration of America and its unity and multiculturalism under one flag, that is America.

[@renderser]

Well that's a slippery slope, can't say anyone would want to get rid of veteran's day lol

[@Beachbum471]

No more Pride Month, no more Black History Month… We’re all supposed to be American from the United States. Why is this so difficult?😔

[@renderser]

@@Beachbum471 Well then you would have to get rid of Christmas because not every American celebrates Christmas.. lets get rid of every single holiday while we're at it

[@Beachbum471]

@@renderser oh stop! Get rid of your agenda….

[@Beachbum471]

@@renderser I would be more than Happy to not consider Christmas a National Holiday. New Year yup. Get over yourself….

[@aperke01]

Patton is one of my favorite movies of all time and was nominated for a boatload of Oscars. It wouldn’t be eligible.

[@tomwill313]

I have to correct you on one thing. In 16 candles, the character Long Duk Dong (one of the most hilarious characters ever) was played by Gary Watanabe a Japanese-American actor. “ No way Jose, you beat up my face.”….. “You grabbed my nuts.”

[@hsss1]

Dylan does Dallas?

[@mrblasto1729]

Thank you i was going to say he isn't white

[@adreena456]

I think she was thinking of Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s where he wore fake teeth and played a horrible Asian stereotype

[@mrblasto1729]

@@adreena456 that is very possible

[@missrabidfox5943]

The first time the whole Oscars being ridiculous really hit me is when people were bitching about Sir Anthony Hopkins winning best actor for his role in The Father over Chadwick Bosmen in Black Panther. Black Panther was a good film and his performance was great, but Hopkins deserved his win. He is one of the greatest living actors! Bosman's own parents agreed that Hopkins deserved the win. Geez.

[@Yeodoongiiie]

the oscars is a joke now. it used to be so epic. i still remember when i was awake all night to see if lord of the rings won... back then it was so fancy and special and cool. now it's a joke.

[@stevetennispro]

I guess the Peoples Choice Awards is where the action is gonna be from now on.

[@KetinUSA]

The percentages make the fathers who stick around that much more admirable.

[@Heraclitean]

I saw a woke movie set in 1800s Britain. People of various races were in the cast and the impression given was that all the characters had equal social standing. Nobody in the story "saw" color, and they were really, under their costumes, modern progressives. That was the sensibility imputed by the screenwriter, airlifted from our era to that era. It's hilarious because this "cleansing" of history is exactly the complaint people had about Song of the South. The wokesters are so confused.

[@courtneyfrost915]

This is ridiculous. People complain when White people wear braids, even though our ancient ancestors did, way before we came into contact with people from Africa. But, it is ok for non Whites to be cast in White roles, even if it is a lie, historically speaking.

[@laikanbarth]

It’s exactly what communists do too. They change the history of the country.

[@staceymcdonald4965]

ridiculous

[@ms-ht1cj]

Exactly my thougts! Every time they cast a black person as a medieval European ruler, queen, king or a rich lord in Victorian England... They just decline there were any racism/slavery towards black people. They are erasing their history and suffering actually. It's so weird.

[@davidwinokur2131]

Amazing how exclusionary the Oscar's inclusivity is.

[@siorcmor8480]

Perfectly articulated.

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

It's almost like they're complete sophists

[@davidwinokur2131]

@@AntiwhitismIsJealousy Only if 'sophist' means 'delusional'.

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

@@davidwinokur2131 I think they're more so maIicious

[@davehemminger1401]

The reason the aren't pissed off is because they bought into the narrative that racism is why they don't win an Oscar. BTW, I'm a huge fan of Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman!!! They not only amazing actors but they are also GRET men!!!

[@ilcuzzo12]

Juneteenth is one giant federal virtue signal. I showed up to work.

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

A villainy signaling. Its elevation meant to disparage the founding stock

[@teddypeony185]

As an inspiring author I was already worried about writting my stories since when I am gone what people would do if they go the rights to my stories since I wrote my characters in a certain way and I don't want their essence to get ruined. However, that my stories don't get nominated in book awards or if it get turned into a film doesn't get an award doesn't not concern me since all that matters to me is that people can connect to the characters that I write and to the story that I have created.

[@whitejosh444]

It would be crazy if an oscar-worthy film didn't get nominated because they only got twenty-seven and a half percent of the quota

[@KingTainmentTV]

real artistic good movies wont qualify for the oscars, its indoctrination on its highest. you dont tell artists what to do

[@batmanforpresident9655]

Calling "Juneteenth" a real Holiday is like calling The Oscars "must see T.V."

[@kimjohnson8471]

Has been a holiday here in Texas for over 100 years.

[@Jesus_Student]

@@kimjohnson8471 I must have been living under a rock for 100 years, I just learned about this holiday today.

[@leftcheek1239]

@@kimjohnson8471 yeah in texas anywhere else and nobody know what the fuck it is. i black and i didn't know what the fuck juneteenth was until last year and i am 39

[@sprinkleddonuts6094]

@@kimjohnson8471 no, just a very very very VERY minuscule amount of people celebrated it.

[@kimjohnson8471]

@@Jesus_Student I'm Black. It was a very big celebration in my rock.....I mean family/community. ❤️

[@just_another_bookworm]

Shoutout to that intro that had no problems.😂

[@Hawkeye-4077]

This just means the next “best picture” will likely have lost money at the box office. lmao 😂😂

[@jeffersonhassan4558]

Most best picture movies do loose money though, it's the Oscar's that brings them to the limelight

[@merxeddie6474]

The death of meritocracy,awards and absolutely the death of art.

[@HateDietPepsi]

Juneteenth is total symbolism. Instead of doing something for U.S. citizens they throw out this symbolism while at the same time sending another $40 billion to Ukraine.

[@Morticia1313]

I used to watch the Oscars every year. I would see every movie & we would have a party & bet on the winners. Now I have no use for it. I'm sick & tired on all these entitled people going up there accepting their award & preaching to us. As far as the debate I agree 100% with you. If he is so sure of his facts, have the debate. He wrote about it so we should just take his word without hearing both sides. Total 💩

[@gaffstompr2]

I think we knew the inclusion rules for movies already, they just made it official. I wonder what they would do with a movie like Castaway? 🤔

[@dawnstone610]

I've noticed that people are starting to watch great older movies and admit they were the greatest. The best of the best actors and directors and crew were all talented. I saw the original Jesus Christ Superstar. It was the ultimate diversified movie, and few people noticed.

[@BridgetStuart]

One of my favorites. I set a special night to watch it with my 20 year old son. He was blown away!!

[@skipbellon2755]

I saw some non-Veterans celebrating Veterans Day, also.

[@MrBurns.]

If someone thought that they could debate you and win they would debate you. It’s pretty telling when someone contradicts, or refutes something another said yet refuses to back up their assertion.

[@Ghostalking]

So how is a group “underrepresented” if they appear as a third of the cast, in 100% of the movies in 2024?

[@zeldatanit4346]

It’s just code for non white 😂

[@PixarShark]

I graduated with a degree in animation, and I have been moving away from using it for films and television. I’m increasingly grateful for that the longer Hollywood “Hollywoods”. 😂 Now I’m looking to use it for animatronics and theme park/museum/zoo design. God willing THAT doesn’t become quite as polarizingly political.

[@warriorkala3960]

I am very glad that on “Juneteenth” I was able to hang out at Waterworld, which is a giant water park, but me and my best friend see this as a political driven holiday. Love holiday breaks when I get them, but not like this. The more and more I go through life and hear this crap like about the Oscars, there is no point in pursuing my passions because of political correctness.

[@sydneykendall7125]

Please don't give up on pursuing your passions. Find a creative way to do so. Fight for the loves of your life, or you'll die inside.

[@warriorkala3960]

@@sydneykendall7125 😊thanks

[@Nymeria64]

I mean I will never complain about getting a paid day off lol. I work at a bank but I’m in the fraud dept so I still work a lot of holidays. Having yesterday off was a pleasant surprise and I was able to spend it celebrating my anniversary with my boyfriend a day early since we normally work opposing schedules. Also don’t give up working on your passions, there are so many things you’re able to do even if it is just for yourself

[@Chicago48]

Juneteenth is a feel-good made up Holiday. Nobody's going to do anything other than go to a "fun" activity and not celebrate the cause.

[@tdelli3675]

I think about "the body guard" and how Kevin Costner was willing to wait to have Whitney Houston play the lead role because he believed in his bones the role was made for her and no one els could bring that character to life like Whitney and she killed it!! she made that film amazing! "i will always love you" came from that film. Its probably top 5 most known love songs. That song makes babies cry from overwhelming emotions. When you force creatives to choose what YOU want, you take all that away.

[@gissellest333]

I don’t like that movie and his crying and hers wasn’t that good Imo.

[@tdelli3675]

@@gissellest333 I haven't seen it since I was a kid but I loved it! It's a romance. It's for a people like me that like corny romance movies, shows and books. 🥰 lol

[@shoutasakai2356]

Hey! I am Japanese watching your show in Korea! Love what you’re doing.

[@SunnySage122]

So it went from "Oscars so white" to "Oscars so woke." I'm black and even I'm bothered by quota casting. I'd rather go back to "Oscars so white," which really didn't bother me to begin with. I'd rather people be casted and movies winning based on criteria that is artistic and performance-driven. The whole inclusivity thing isn't based on reality because as an adult I realize the true reality is that life is not constructed to be inclusive. The animal kingdom gets it, but humans don't. The hyena knows it will never be the king of the jungle like the lion, and the lion knows it'll never run as fast as the cheetah. As kids, our parents often said, "Life isn't fair." And they're right. The reality of life is that you're not going to get everything you want and not everything is created to accommodate you. But now we're flipping that on its head, lowering standards, and letting people engage with life unrealistically. You shouldn't be granted a role just cause you fit a quota. People shouldn't be entitled based on these criteria. I get annoyed watching films and seeing a character who I KNOW was a quota cast. I'm about to switch my focus to international/foreign films. I'm so over Hollywood. I really, really want to see an A-list actor or director speak up about this and not care about taking any heat.

[@primmoore6232]

Movies that might qualify for the Oscars: Everything Everywhere All at Once's sequel? Avatar: The Way of Water? Would "Hamilton" qualify with its diverse cast playing revolutionary era white guys?? The Oscars (btw, where's the female statue??) is being turned into a participation trophy for the 'marginalized.'

[@soulsurfer7702]

Would Oppenheimer qualify for best picture or to many white guys? Seems like one of those movies that would get almost every award at the Oscars.

[@michaelstarling-uy5dm]

I'm a person of color - olive skinned. Italian/Sicilian/Mesopotamian decent. I do not appreciate being associated with Nero or Alexander the Great or Mussolini. I am an individual - I am me and my pronouns are Mr. and Poppi and Chicken Man. 😂

[@wearelightbeings]

I’ve followed RFK and Children’s Health Defense since I got pregnant with my first baby almost 8 years ago. Of course they won’t debate RFK! He knows too much. They just want him silenced.

[@carolinevann8520]

I love your content! The honesty is so needed in this world.

[@wwozanewmusical]

Gary "Gedde" Watanabe is an American actor. He is known for voicing the character of Ling in the animated film Mulan and its sequel Mulan II, as well as playing Long Duk Dong in the film Sixteen Candles and Takahara "Kaz" Kazihiro in Gung Ho, and Nurse Yoshi Takata in the NBC medical drama ER from 1997 to 2003. This actor is not white at all.

[@jeffersonhassan4558]

He's also in the KZbin series called The disappointments

[@WaaDoku]

So these "inclusivity" rules by the Academy will either result in more non-Western foreign films winning Oscars (because duh, they are made by and star people of different ethnicities) or that American filmmakers are forced to over-represent certain groups of people in order to be eligible for an Oscar... Restricting art always made for interesting results but with Hollywood I'm not so sure. Some films that would be excluded from an Oscar nomination in 2024 due to forced "inclusivity" rules: The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Dark Knight (2008), Schindler's List (1993) and literally any movie about WWI, WWII or the Holocaust (except if it solely focuses on the gay and disabled people that were killed and incarcerated), Fight Club (1999), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), basically any Christopher Nolan movie except the 2020 Tenet (makes you think twice now about the casting choices), any movie by Martin Scorsese, the original and prequel Star Wars trilogy (if aliens and robots don't count), Back to the Future trilogy, Psycho (1960) although one could argue mentally handicapped people are in it, any historical film that focuses on figures that happened to have light skin color (see the 2023 Cleopatra "docu"-series), all Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton films, possibly Wall-E since it's just about a robot mostly... no diversity there, and last but not least basically all documentary films that happen to tell stories about white people (I'm specifically thinking about the war in Ukraine...). Also, what about animated films that don't have any humans in them like Zootopia? The list of Best Picture winners that wouldn't win anymore due to these rules is too long so look them up yourselves if you want: www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/2021/1/?ref_=ev_eh

[@library2952]

You raise an interesting point. I suppose it depends how 'traditional' the non-Western film is because based on these inclusivity rules, having a non-white cast is only the first step. I suspect a lot of non-Western films would still be disqualified from Best Picture for things like only depicting one race (their own), and not having a plot focused on LGBT or disability struggles etc - especially since there are plenty of countries around the world where these things are not as prominent in the culture or public conciousness.

[@kurosumomo]

Yes, but Asians in Asia are not a minority. I just can not wait when Americans will try to dictate who should and should not act in Japanese, Korean or Chinese movies, or give us quotas to be nominated at the awards. I mean, this nonsense will all die out in the next 5 to 10 years and then the Anglosphere will realise what regression they were fostering for the last 15-20 years with this kind of nonsense quotas and pandering. I can not speak for minorities or ethnicities, but I can speak for myself and if I, a Japanese woman from Japan, were to be awarded an award only because of some ethnicity quotas, and my competitors were automatically excluded, because they were not the right skin color, ethnicity or minority, I would really take no pride or joy in such a reward, or even bother to accept it.

[@WaaDoku]

@@library2952 I can imagine that there will be a lot of "exceptions" from these rules, since many of the things listed as requirements can be kept vague in the film itself but can just be inserted in the film's synopsis. How do you know a person has some specific "minority" heritage? How do you know someone is "queer"? How do you know someone is mentally or physically handicapped? Unless it needs to be extreme examples for all of these, there's room to get around those rules I suspect. Also, would Parasite be disqualified now because all people in the film are not a minority in the country of origin? Does this mean there needs to be more white people in nominees from non-Western countries? The fact that "women" as a whole are listed as a "underrepresented minority" is also ridiculous and goes to show that this is driven by ideology. What I surely do know is that I will specifically seek out films that do not make it to the Oscar short lists. So basically anything that is not associated with the Academy.

[@user-no2mz9hl4f]

I almost died from a routine childhood vaccine. Not saying they have no place or that no one should get vaccines ever - I think they can be helpful - but they aren’t harmless. No one likes to talk about the harms of vaccines because that conversation gets shut down quickly, but people should know that they aren’t risk free.

[@the2ndcoming135]

Same. Am I crying about it tho? Nope😁

[@dawnnation4942]

I forgot to ask - did they list the percentages that are acceptable to qualify? Is half-black, quarter-asian ok or if you use a bunch of mixed race, then it's gotta be 60% instead of 30? Or, casting will just exclude them to make sure all the boxes are ticked?

[@anyabar1987]

Problem is if your ~quarter Asian/ 3/4 white you usually pass as white or at least the couple quarter Asians in my life do.

[@WhiteTiger333]

Oh, LOL - now I have to tune in and say that I am a 71 year old enthusiast of your channel. You go, you amazing youngins! People like you give me hope for the future. It's not easy to get good perspective...and you are part of the badly needed perspective. Lord knows we don't get it from the "woke" media! My Juneteenth celebration consisted of having an ecstatic three day weekend. I am neither a descendent of slaves, nor of slave owners. 😃 Your AC must be on. You are wearing a turtleneck sweater instead of a tank top. The new Oscar rules - I just can't! LOL! If Hollywood wants to shoot its own foot off...go for it! It would be awesome if the movies that are truly artistic take all the box office popularity, but don't match the "criteria". While the ones that match the narrative are box office flops. Then what?! Stay tuned, I suppose. Thinking of a fantastic black actor from back before it was "woke". Sidney Poitier! A complete legend! And the movies he starred in mostly pointed out racial disparity when it was real, not contrived. His movies were awesome, he was awesome, and they had universal appeal. And, right? "Peer review" in science is also deteriorating into "woke review".

[@strawcherry472]

Why does this comment sound like a random kid is trying to act like a 71 year old 💀

[@hsss1]

@@strawcherry472 Yeah it was the Lols for me.

[@redfernpixelgnomepitcher1377]

re: science. The lockdowns put an end to the pretence of evidence based healthcare...

[@WhiteTiger333]

@@strawcherry472 Should I take that as a compliment? 😂

[@WhiteTiger333]

@@hsss1 LOL is ubiquitous. It doesn't belong to just one age group. But, I don't mind being taken for a random kid. I won't cry because I was "mis-aged". 😜

[@theeotakufam6825]

The only thing I care about Juneteenth for...is because I get a day off, BTW...I'm black and I work in the federal government 🤣. People need a day off lol. My day consisted of taking a bus back to Maryland 🤣

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

I hate Maryland so much

[@benjaminswartz-jy1uq]

As someone who is actually making a feature film and someday going to make a film studio, The state of film at this point makes people part of that group look like tyrants and the reason this sucks so much is that my ultimate goal is to have an animated film win best picture I hope there are new versions of the oscars

[@Trustworthyalma]

I didn’t get the day off from my library job. Some customers were happy that we were open. Others were upset.

[@goneoutside1011]

I enjoyed when it wasn’t a national holiday now I don’t care anymore… most people had no clue which I think had more meaning for those of us who actually enjoyed it. Now it’s just another holiday like the rest of them. People look for reasons to party and act stupid. Look what happened in Chicago. As kid we use to go the park and attend outdoor events.

[@jenniferstarks4115]

When will they be erecting a holiday for all other ethnicities that were enslaved

[@dianenyc4664]

Exactly! Japanese, Irish, etc. Where are our reparations and our holiday?

[@barbr100]

The Oscars have officially become meaningless with these new criteria for Best Picture nominations.

[@Cward5656]

I lost respect for the Oscars after A Silent Voice- anime film about a boy working towards redemption in the eyes of the deaf girl he bullied and his peers who ostracized him, was not acknowledged by the oscars but Boss Baby was nominated that same year

[@signaldisconnected634]

It’s the way they will consistently downplay and insult animation yet animation across the board had done wayyyy better than most live actions now.

[@desertrose0601]

How you can tell when someone has zero credibility… when you absolutely refuse to present your ideas on the biggest platform in the world. 😑

[@terrenea.davenport7155]

There was a time I wanted my books to be picked up and perhaps turned into a movie or TV series, and then perhaps be nominated for an Oscar. But after reading up on the Oscar's and it's self eating snake, I said I just want good public ratings. Not even critics are quality. Now all the genuinely good stories that might be diverse, will ever know its based of the merit or because they happened to check the boxes unintentionally 😔

[@petert4094]

Back in the day, many stores had “white sales”, which were sales on many household linens. At the time, bedding and towels were pretty much available only in white.

[@gregorybaxter9601]

I have been a father for 26 years, that fact has never been acknowledged in any way, even by my family.

[@AjaniGoldmaneFFXIV]

I love the , "make it make sense" cause that's me all the time when dealing with the left.

[@renderser]

I think Juneteenth is a good holiday, totally fine with it becoming a federal holiday... Its only one day, way better than a whole month of pride smh

[@jeffersonhassan4558]

The only "black straight lives matter" crew has landed

[@renderser]

@@jeffersonhassan4558 lol I don't support black lives matter.. but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the emancipation of slaves is pretty legit 👌🏾

[@drbott2010]

Amala, exactly. I feel terrible about this for many reasons, bit the worst of all if for the person who wins, happens to be someone who meets a diversity quota, and they have to wonder if their achievement will be viewed as just s quota.

[@tigs8258]

Now I am concerned because if EVERY industry follows the same rules, what about the medical field? Very concerning!!!

[@murderoustendencies]

Being a French Canadian, I don't celebrate US holidays. Our National Day is in five days... or rather it was, as it has been officially taken from us to make it "inclusive", which means that instead of celebrating our common history and heritage, we will have to make room for the culture of immigrants who neither know nor care about it. Also pay some lip service to black Americans too because BLM has taken so much place here we have African immigrants who demand we apologize for that Chauvin guy since we're white.

[@tulip5210]

did you guys even have slavery in canada? like what

[@murderoustendencies]

@@tulip5210 We did, although it didn't last very long and our economy was never based around it. I believe the slaves here would've been freed when the UK abolished slavery as we were still a colony. Safe for a very small number of aristocrats, they would've been owned by the English too. There was some segregation too at the same time as the Jim Crow laws, but I'm not sure if it was everywhere, and at the time we were being marginalized and kept away from economic power by the English. It's funny also in latter years some CRT black scholars have been desperate to prove that we have a history of systemic racism here, even blaming us for blackface performance by anglos... lol.

[@elijahFree2000]

You really do hate black people, don't you?

[@jamiemurray4129]

Juneteenth. Another Holiday brought to you by the might of the United States Army. As a white Army wife, im celebrating all the victories of our united states military!

[@dionthomas5418]

I agree with you on that statement, the United States Army and the rest of the United States Military has freed more people than anything other military Force on Earth in Human history

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

​@@dionthomas5418soon the opposite will be true. They will come after us

[@Thom1212]

I took a half day off because the banks were closed and there was no mail delivery, so doing Accounts Receivable revolved around sitting at me desk looking at internet articles until noon.

[@CeicelRockMonster]

I had a cookout yesterday but had no idea it was a federal holiday until there was no mail 😂

[@Selena-ei8cx]

If i was making a movie, i would want the best actors, no matter who it is. It will ruin the movie if you dont get the right actors. I dont watch award shows, and especially wont now.

[@DrWolves]

Back in 2009, when I was in film school at RMIT TAFE Melbourne, my short film involved a man accidentally causing the death of his girlfriend. My instructor, Barbara, told me that I had to change the script because having a female victim was not okay and misogynistic. I was made to change the script to the victim being the man's male friend instead, to pass.

[@kathenson606]

Yeah. Women aren’t victims. Until we are.

[@oblitusunum6979]

I would have told her where to shove it and report her to the school

[@DrWolves]

@@oblitusunum6979 amen. And had I been more aware and wiser at the time, I'd certainly have done so. But, I was young and stupid and so oblivious. I was angry, but I thought that "that's just how things work these days" 😑

[@vivianaldana4249]

Ugh! #downwithhollywood

[@TuberMad]

You had me at 'Melbourne.'

[@Harv-ul9fz]

As a woman I am so offended by these rules. This is absurd. #oscarssodumb

[@anyabar1987]

I went to a Dr's appointment and my Dr's office was in full swing it appeared that everyone was working

[@denisegibson2870]

Woke makes more sense once you know what the goal is... The goal isn't to empower 'marginalized' groups; it is to break 'privileged' individuals. (Can't 're-educate' people who have a healthy sense of their own self-worth.) I agree, 'Slum Dog Millionaire' was exceptional!

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

That isn't the goal at all. Whl te Eras vre is.

[@denisegibson2870]

@AntiwhitismIsJealousy Hi Franklin. I appreciate the comment, but I'm afraid I do not understand what it means. Please explain.

[@AntiwhitismIsJealousy]

@@denisegibson2870 It had to be formatted like that due to the Al Gore rhythm

[@denisegibson2870]

@AntiwhitismIsJealousy Hi Franklin. My apologies, but I do not subscribe to identity politics, gender ideology, white replacement theory, CRT, white supremacy, QAnon, Black Lives Matter, anti-vax, deconstructionism, fascism, or any other socialist/collectivist movement. Rather, I believe in the sanctity of the individual, personal agency, and the power of critical thought (which I believe is under attack). I hope this clarifies my previous statement regarding the confusing nature of the Woke movement. Have a great day!

[@DT_Michael]

I have 2 comments regarding "Juneteenth": 1). The perpetuation of the woke agenda regarding reparations and the weaponization of the holiday is turning into a day to participate in "white-bashing". My family were Scottish immigrants, so we never owned slaves - heck, my family didn't even arrive in the USA till early in the 20th century, so why should I have to feel ashamed of being white because black people were enslaved 50 years before we were even here? 2). Where does it end? What's the cutoff date here? There were plenty of other races enslaved by others throughout history, where are those reparations? Where are the reparations coming from Africa - paid by the members of the tribes who sold fellow Africans into slavery? Where are my reparations from England because of 300 years of oppression back between 1300 and 1600? Better yet, where are the reparations from Italy since the Roman Empire enslaved, literally everyone? Or is that going too far back? It was 150 years ago people. I should not -as a US citizen - participate in paying reparations for something that my family was not even involved in 150 years ago. In a nutshell - it's time to move on. Great video. Thank you for a very interesting conversation. Keep up the good work!

[@anthonyspinks2640]

Amala great pod cast keep the content going 👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙏🏻

[@bluevalentine1964]

Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 love your Show.

[@the2ndcoming135]

🥇

[@JohnDoe-xd2ld]

Congratulations Scott!! As a Father of two young boys you will learn that there is nothing better than your kids coming to hug and kiss you then truly look you in the eye and say I love you Daddy.😊

[@Heller_215]

This morning I saw a notification on my phone about Juneteenth and I was so confused about what was this holiday since I’ve never heard of it until today

[@MoonsideResident]

Yay, the longer intro! A weird thing to care about but what can I say, I like it.

[@jessicawoods3690]

I’m from Vallejo California & I can say we at least my circle of people been wanted June teen way before the pandemic.

[@Klonen75]

I just realized that in 5-10 years people will look at race when hiring like never before. Because S'so many blacks and minorities are getting degrees on sketchy grounds. While white and asians have to struggle for their degrees. That means that the future employees will have work ethics and skills that align with their skin color and ethnicity. And those blacks and minorities that are actually skilled will have to fight against predujices.

[@AprilHare]

Happy belated Birthday, Amala! I should have known you were a Gemini just like my kids and bestie!

[@stephanieleigh8981]

Amala you are such a beautiful human ♥️♥️♥️ my favorite yt channel hands down!

[@fionamcfadden5772]

Happy Happy Birthday to ya Amala Xx have a fantastic,fabulous & truly fandabbydozy day..❤u🥳🥳🥳🥳❤🎉🎉🎉...Enjoooyyyy Xx