Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting about Oscar nominations

[Politically_Incorrect12]

  Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nominees

The Rev. Al Sharpton was left fuming mad after the Oscars revealed its all-white list of nominees for this year's Oscar awards on Thursday.


"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon.

Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an "emergency meeting" next week to address the issue.

"I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards," he said. 

Read more at: finance.yahoo.com/news/al-sharpton-calls-emergency-meeting-210136185.html

[zibazinski]

Oh dear, he's missing the spotlight again. Poor little Al.

[swamp]

I think if Al really cares about black people, he should focus more on stuff like education, violence, gangs, drug use, and such.

[Tennesseer]

Just silly. Who exactly is he going to "emergency meeting" with?

[Icelandic Woman]

There are no words.

[zibazinski]

Funny, no one said a word when Hattie McDanile beat out the actress that played Melanie, in GWTW, her name escapes me at the moment. Hattie wasn't even very good and Hollywood was very segregated even then but little Al needs some attention.

[Icelandic Woman]

Jan 16, 2015 12:50:56 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Funny, no one said a word when Hattie McDanile beat out the actress that played Melanie, in GWTW, her name escapes me at the moment. Hattie wasn't even very good and Hollywood was very segregated even then but little Al needs some attention.

Olivia de Havilland

[zibazinski]

Thank you. I could remember she had a sister who was also an actress but I can't remember that ones name either. Joan Fontaine? Is that it?

[Icelandic Woman]

Jan 16, 2015 12:55:44 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Thank you. I could remember she had a sister who was also an actress but I can't remember that ones name either. Joan Fontaine? Is that it?

Yep sure is.

[Tennesseer]

Jan 16, 2015 12:55:44 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Thank you. I could remember she had a sister who was also an actress but I can't remember that ones name either. Joan Fontaine? Is that it?

One of the great bitter Hollywood rivalries.

[Tennesseer]

Jan 16, 2015 12:58:18 GMT -5 Icelandic Woman said:

Jan 16, 2015 12:55:44 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Thank you. I could remember she had a sister who was also an actress but I can't remember that ones name either. Joan Fontaine? Is that it?

Yep sure is.

good memories, both of you.

[zibazinski]

I worry when I can't remember things like I used to.

[zibazinski]

You'd think someone who owed so much money to the IRS would keep a lower profile. But it's probably racist that he is expected to pay what he owes.

[Tennesseer]

zibazinski and Icelandic Woman - 

Has there ever been a sibling rivalry more venomous than this? Now Joan Fontaine is dead at 96, her sister Olivia de Havilland will be livid she's stolen the headlines again

Hollywood film star Joan Fontaine wasn't entirely joking when she predicted how her sister, Olivia de Havilland, would take the news of her passing.
‘I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she’ll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it,’ she said 35 years ago.
In the event, Fontaine has trumped her nemesis once again, passing away of natural causes at 96 at her home in Carmel, California, on Sunday.

Has there ever been a sibling rivalry more venomous than this? Now Joan Fontaine is dead at 96, her sister Olivia de Havilland will be livid she's stolen the headlines again

[zibazinski]

Unreal. I heard a little about it but not to the extent of this. I wonder what started it ?

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Jan 16, 2015 13:13:10 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Unreal. I heard a little about it but not to the extent of this. I wonder what started it ?

Probably some obscure conservative plot to destroy liberal Hollywood from within by causing rivalry within the actors and their families.

[zibazinski]

there is that.

[Icelandic Woman]

Jan 16, 2015 13:10:59 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

zibazinski and Icelandic Woman - 

Has there ever been a sibling rivalry more venomous than this? Now Joan Fontaine is dead at 96, her sister Olivia de Havilland will be livid she's stolen the headlines again

Hollywood film star Joan Fontaine wasn't entirely joking when she predicted how her sister, Olivia de Havilland, would take the news of her passing.
‘I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she’ll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it,’ she said 35 years ago.
In the event, Fontaine has trumped her nemesis once again, passing away of natural causes at 96 at her home in Carmel, California, on Sunday.

Has there ever been a sibling rivalry more venomous than this? Now Joan Fontaine is dead at 96, her sister Olivia de Havilland will be livid she's stolen the headlines again

LMAO!!! That just goes to a whole other level.

[Value Buy]

I think Reverend Al was upset at the movie "Selma" was basically ignored.

You cannot piss off Oprah without her getting someone to be the henchman.

Imo, Selma was released too late to be considered this year, but what do I know.

Selma also got ignored for best picture last week so they are pissed.

It's not like Oprah has been ignored by the white community. Heck they even elected her hero to the WH twice the first time when she stabbed Hillary in the back.

Maybe Hollywood is having some second thoughts about that one this year 

[Icelandic Woman]

Jan 16, 2015 14:37:50 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I think Reverend Al was upset at the movie "Selma" was basically ignored.

You cannot piss off Oprah without her getting someone to be the henchman.

Imo, Selma was released too late to be considered this year, but what do I know.

Selma also got ignored for best picture last week so they are pissed.

It's not like Oprah has been ignored by the white community. Heck they even elected her hero to the WH twice the first time when she stabbed Hillary in the back.

Maybe Hollywood is having some second thoughts about that one this year 

Selma was nominated for Best Picture and Best Song. I think he is upset because it was ignored in all the acting and directing categories.

[Value Buy]

And now we have Fox network with a hot black series on the network.

I am surprised Al has not gone after them for some sterotyping black people in the radio music industry. 

[Value Buy]

Jan 16, 2015 14:39:21 GMT -5 Icelandic Woman said:

Jan 16, 2015 14:37:50 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I think Reverend Al was upset at the movie "Selma" was basically ignored.

You cannot piss off Oprah without her getting someone to be the henchman.

Imo, Selma was released too late to be considered this year, but what do I know.

Selma also got ignored for best picture last week so they are pissed.

It's not like Oprah has been ignored by the white community. Heck they even elected her hero to the WH twice the first time when she stabbed Hillary in the back.

Maybe Hollywood is having some second thoughts about that one this year 

Selma was nominated for Best Picture and Best Song. I think he is upset because it was ignored in all the acting and directing categories.

In his opinion best picture and song is not enough.

HE WANTS IT ALL.

[Politically_Incorrect12]

Looks like more articles are popping up complaining about it.  It's amazing the responses on twitter over it.  It doesn't sound like people have had a lot of issues with nominees in the past for Oscars, but this year all of a sudden it's an issue because of the nominees were all white.  Seriously?  Maybe the people who are complaining about this are guilty of the same racism that they are complaining about.     Racism isn't a one-way street that many seem to want to believe.

Oscar Nominees: Hollywood Whitewash

Nothing the least bit derogatory about the title there.....

  This year’s Oscar nominees were overwhelmingly white -- every single actor and actress nominated for an Academy Award this year is Caucasian. In terms of nominations, the 2015 ceremony will be the whitest since 1998. There has been public outcry over the lack of racial diversity at this year's awards, with particular focus on the movie "Selma" and the lack of nominations it received in the acting and directing categories. The film, which was based on Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic civil rights march to Montgomery, received a 99% rating with critics on RottenTomatoes.

The hashtag "OscarsSoWhite" went viral after the nominations were announced.

Read more at:  finance.yahoo.com/news/are-the-academy-awards-too-white--201419670.html

[kittensaver]

Jan 16, 2015 14:40:51 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 16, 2015 14:39:21 GMT -5 Icelandic Woman said:

Selma was nominated for Best Picture and Best Song. I think he is upset because it was ignored in all the acting and directing categories.

In his opinion best picture and song is not enough.

HE WANTS IT ALL.

Get in line, buddy. So does every producer, director, actor and filmmaker in the business. Just sayin' . . . .

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

It is entirely possible that the race hustling industry jumped the shark with #Ferguson and the ensuing and ongoing violence, and silly rhetoric and the academy simply didn't have the attention span, or patience to listen to Spike Lee or Oprah ramble on for an hour on the topic? I guess George Soros can try to buy revolution with $33 million but can't even conjure an Oscar.

[Spellbound454]

There are many different film awarding bodies.....the Oscars is just one of many

and it tends to bee the same films in the running....over and over again (though who actually gets the gong may be different)

So, you can only conclude that those must be the best films around in a particular year.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 16, 2015 14:39:49 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

And now we have Fox network with a hot black series on the network.

I am surprised Al has not gone after them for some sterotyping black people in the radio music industry. 

And the racist GOP just elected Mia Love, and a good chunk of the more conservative, TEA Party wing of the party would love to see Ben Carson in the oval office.

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I would say that Al Sharpton has a chip on his shoulder... but I'm not certain that's where the chip actually is.

[zibazinski]

He needs a chip. He's got short man syndrome.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Sharpton is a symptom of where the liberal establishment is today. After Al Sharpton's role in the Tawana Brawley phony rape scam which resulted in riots and even a death, he ought to zero credibility with everyone. But not the liberal establishment shows up and bends over every time Sharpton calls a presser.

newsbusters.org/blogs/paul-bremmer/2013/10/08/twenty-five-years-later-sharpton-still-defending-role-brawley-rape-hoa

It’s been 25 years since a grand jury concluded that young Tawana Brawley falsely accused a group of white men of raping her, but the Rev. Al Sharpton still believes he did the right thing by supporting Brawley back then. Sharpton was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday to talk about his new book when co-host Mika Brzezinski brought up the infamous Brawley rape case, in which Sharpton played a major advisory role to the 15-year-old. The Politics Nation host claimed that the case had taught him to conduct himself in a more dignified manner when representing alleged victims of discrimination so the public would be more sympathetic to his cause.

However, Sharpton did not express any particular regret that Brawley’s claims were ruled false, so Willie Geist prodded him on the matter: “Do you regret at all, Rev, what you put some of the men through in that case, though, the guys who turned out to be innocent?” Sharpton was unapologetic: [See video below.]