I think the problem is well addressed by the publicists' concerns when they said "Compton could have received 2,500 votes in the fourth or fifth slot, but if it doesn’t have at least 350 first-place votes, it gets ignored…I don’t think the Academy needs to have its motives addressed, but the weighted balloting system…

The voters watch every movie. You actually think that because voters are 70 year old white men that they would avoid a critically acclaimed movie like SOC? They must be in the wrong business then. These people don't refuse to watch movies because they don't identify them, they want to watch good movies because it's…

No one has to convince you of anything. It's a good thing we live in a society where other people's opinions on what a better movie is can be respected and not called out for racism or transphobia 24/7. Oh wait.

I thought Room and Brooklyn were both subjectively better movies than Creed. Creed was the same reused plot line of Rocky with little emotion. Room and Brooklyn were both extremely emotional movies that were creative in their story telling.

Nice try, Spike Lee. Chi-raq was good, not significant. It was a great year for people of color in movies? Am I reading that right? Concussion was terrible. Beasts of No Nation was decent, but it was basically an extremely limited release movie that was globally distributed through Netflix. Creed and SOC were the only…