BlackBook: Earlier this morning we took a look at the 2015 Oscar nominations. We were pleased to see some of our favorite films of the year recognized, such as Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel receiving nine nominations and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood with five. 29-year-old director Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash received nominations for Best Picture and four others, and the always brilliant Marion Cotillard stepped into the Best Actress category for the Dardenne Brothers’s Two Days, One Night. But what about the films that didn’t make the cut, how did those fall to the wayside, and what does that mean?
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I think it is embarrassing that in this day and age, that our greatest accolades for entertainment are still decided by a body that is not in anyway reflective of the general public. There are hardly any women, people of color or young adults involved in the Oscars, and it is a shame to see them decide the merit of our cinematic culture. What’s worse is that this is not a new occurrence, or an epiphany. Every year we are faced with statistics that support the fact that this guild is unbalanced and every year nothing is done. It is the same with other major bodies such as the Grammys. I am almost more irritated with how passive our culture is about this problem, than I am with the guild. They are who they are, and it is our decision as a culture whether or not they are lauded as the end all be all of cinema critics. They don’t have to change, we do.
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