The Official 89th Academy Awards Thread - ABC, 8:30PM ET

[UserNameless]

Here's where you all miss the picture tho: the black people in Hollywood who've busted their asses since high school or college to get there put stock in it because it's recognition people they work with, whether it's writers producers actors directors etc and that award means they're forever in history and a lot of them work their asses off just to be nominated. They grew up watching films and studying films with all races not just black people. And they also understand what type of juice you get by being able to say oscar nominated or oscar winner.

So to say black people shouldn't put stock in something because you have misgivings about who wins or why they win is shytting on the people like Viola or Sidney or Denzel or Halle or forest or Octavia or anyone else who's ever been nominated and or won. It may not mean a lot to "us" because we aren't the ones putting in the work but it means a lot to them. And to decry that simply because the person or film you wanted to win didn't win is childish and short sighted

shyt real outchea in these skreets.

Until they get on some cooperative economics shyt, then miss me with that shyt.

Folks in here talking about awards and acceptance and shyt... just represent black folks on screen properly... fukk the awards. the real award is the honor of being selected to truthfully depict the struggle. that white people shyt is just a cherry on top.

“There exists today a chance for [Blacks] to organize a cooperative State within their own group. By letting Negro farmers feed Negro artisans, and Negro technicians guide [Black] home industries and [Black] thinkers plan this integration of cooperation, while [Black] artists dramatize and beautify the struggle, economic independence can be achieved. To doubt that this is possible is to doubt the essential humanity and the quality of brains of [Black People].”

- W.E.B. DuBois, 1935

 

[MartyMcFly]

shyt real outchea in these skreets.

Until they get on some cooperative economics shyt, then miss me with that shyt.

Folks in here talking about awards and acceptance and shyt... just represent black folks on screen properly... fukk the awards. the real award is the honor of truthfully depicting the struggle. that white people shyt is just the cherry on top.

But that's the thing about "truly representing us" is that we all aren't the same. @SirBiatch asked if any black people care about back to the future. For him, as a black man, he doesn't and that shyt is foreign to him. For me and my people, back to the future is like sacred text lol. The black experience isn't monolithic. There are things we share in common but we're all different. Someone who grew up in Miami is going to have a different experience than me growing up in the D.C. area. Someone who grew up in poverty will have a different set of experiences than someone who came from wealth or a comfortable middle class situation. The black experience is boyz in the hood, menace to society, new jack city, Selma, think like a man, Malcolm x, fences, hidden figures,and moonlight all at once. I watch boyz in the hood and menace to society and I can't relate to any of that. But I can relate to boomerang or the core theme in moonlight or self discovery and trying to figure out who I am as a teenager and young adult. Or the relationship drama in About last night.

Cosby feels more real to me and my experiences than good times. Doesn't mean either one is wrong and not true. It speaks to the diversity of us as a people and that should always be celebrated

 

[Mortal1]

Same reason there's a thread on the Grammys every year even though they didn't want to recognize jazz initially. Or rock initially. Or hip hop and even with their hip hop taste, at times it rubs me the wrong way but that's my preference. But they didn't want to give props to genres we started and we trailblazer in until they became "safe" or overrun by white people and other races. Yet that doesn't stop those threads from being made or people caring about whether or not Beyoncé or Kendrick get a trophy. Can't put down one and then praise the other.

I feel the same about the Grammies as well.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Warren saw that shyt was wrong and passed it off to Faye on some shyt for her to read.

Funny how Warren gettin clowned but they lettin Faye off the hook when SHE was the one who said the shyt. Gotta make sure the white woman don't look bad

 

[MartyMcFly]

I feel the same about the Grammies as well.

Well then I got no beef lol. You're consistent. My bad then.

 

[Detroit Wave]

Fences was better than ass moonlight. Period.

 

[Ms. Elaine]

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@the next guy Representation Matters/Symbolic Change Black Liberal Twitter stay championing/rallying over irrelevant shyt.

So you're in here quoting a dumbass who didn't even know Best Picture goes to (the top 5) producers.

You're low key a trash poster, mah dude. Do all this "research" but your opinions and information is still garbage.

 

[Ms. Elaine]

The homophobia in this thread is sickening. It's 2017. Do better.

 

[Rekkapryde]

They clearly told the old cac moonlight was best pic, when he opened the envelope and read Emma stone lala land you could tell he was wondering if he had dementia or something

Yup. shyt was clear as day.

I see the tinfoil hat and militant crew are doing their thing in here

The way he let Faye take the L was great but of course he got the blame

 

[pickles]

This shyt is crazy B lol. When a movie directed by a black man with an all black cast wins it's a conspiracy or an agenda or God knows whatever else. But if it didn't win the academy is racist

People are legit angry this movie won.

Even though the movie won our coli movie poll.

Every podcast I have heard, people wanted this movie to win.

Even cacs were like at La la Land and were like at Moonlight.

I really can't take the idiots that post here sometimes.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Yup. shyt was clear as day.

I see the tinfoil hat and militant crew are doing their thing in here

The way he let Faye take the L was great but of course he got the blame

He figured it would be best to reenact the ending of Bonnie and Clyde but this time, Clyde goes to answer the phone and tells her to wait in the car

 

[MartyMcFly]

People are legit angry this movie won.

Even though the movie won our coli movie poll.

Every podcast I have heard, people wanted this movie to win.

Even cacs were like at La la Land and were like at Moonlight.

I really can't take the idiots that post here sometimes.

We can't have nice things breh

 

[TheDarceKnight]

 

[UserNameless]

"truly representing us" ...

that's not my quote.


And is identifying as gay really a legitimate part of the "black experience?" ... it can be informed and influenced by the overarching black experience, which is nuanced and varied.

they got shyt fukked up and tryin' to make it equal to -- and even surpass -- the experience.

...and there is a general theme of the black experience, which always goes back to marginalization and inequality. Not saying that produces a monolith, but a shared perspective and ideally, a collective identity... but there are blacks who haven't had the most intense measure of the experience.

 

[Methodical]

they had the wrong card, it was for best actress

Let me get this straight. If they had the wrong card which was for the best actress so what was the card when they announced Emma Stone won? Did she really win?