Haha. Right, Lupita is wonderful, but she’s not a superhero (yet).

Yes. Not a lot of roles. Even fewer roles for Asian women. Also, I could be wrong, but I think Alicia Vikander has something of color going on in her genes.

I think it’s actually an (attempted) expression of dominance. Like, he can’t stand that she’s attractive to him and yet she doesn’t notice him. He has to punish her in some way for making him feel small and vulnerable. Or something. But I’m sure some men just think it’s charming.

Right - I was like keep it away from Weinstein, he will fuck them in some way for sure.

Yeah, and imagine the black film students who have to sit through the showing in every film school. Blech. This is why it’s such a triumphant name appropriation!

But WHO IS SAYING THAT? No one! No one is saying hey let’s give awards to black people who haven’t earned them. No one at all! Just because you don’t like Creed or whatever doesn’t mean that everyone else is advocating to give awards to black people who don’t deserve them. You are inventing that argument.

I agree re: Will Smith, even though I haven’t seen it, lol. I just don’t think he’s very good. MBJ is a marvel. If Ryan Gosling could be nominated for that teacher movie way back when, then MBJ certainly deserves one. Idris is a wonderful actor, and was probably a contender, just got outvoted by people who wanted to…

I agree that it’s systemic, but I’m trying to address the situation we find ourselves in today, regarding the Oscars, where black (and it is mostly black) performances are derided as not “worthy” of recognition, and the suggestion that the nominees should be more diverse is discredited as being purely cosmetic. There…

I’m not sure how you got to be the arbiter of oscar-worthy performances.

OK, but racism is the explanation when there are POC performances and films that are subject to higher standards than white performances and films and found to be lacking merit. It’s the equivalent of a qualified black person being passed over for promotion because the boss plays golf with the adequate but not…

What kind of crazy high standards do you think are required to merit an Oscar nomination? Nomination, not even award? That’s the problem with the lack of diversity in nominations, right here. People act like there’s some transparent meritocracy at work when every other Oscars article that isn’t about diversity talks…

That’s right, but this clearly needed to happen.

Or a Nigerian! There seem to be a lot of British actors with Nigerian or other West African parents around.

Yeah, not on Jez. Here everyone’s all OMG John is bae. Reese is a diva, ew!

Interesting how, on Jezebel, tons of people are patting Jon K on the back while criticizing Reese for not somehow doing more. Maybe we can support both of them for speaking out? As for Reese, she was saying that there were worthy films and performances that were not nominated, which is true. I don’t need all films to…

don’t feed the troll. Someone posts the call for “proof” one every one of these stories.

Does anyone wish she would just make another like Grey’s? Early Grey’s. The newer shows seem really too ridiculous, even if the casting is good.

Yeah, and how is AS so tight with these radical black comedians? She's pretty conventional, if dirty. The writers on her show are great but she is meh

It’s for the cameras, looks better in that other shot. But yeah, crazy.

She is actually not bad in that new cop show. And she even dirtied herself up for it. Color me impressed!