The Media Research Center’s meltdown over the Academy Awards — which followed similar meltdowns over the Golden Globes and the Emmys — actually began months before the actual ceremony. A May 8 post by John Simmons touted actor Richard Dreyfuss’ complaining about diversity becoming a factor for being nominated at the Oscars for best picture:
Dreyfuss vocalized what we’re all thinking: we shouldn’t have to take this woke abuse any longer, and all of this posturing is meaningless. He is correct in his assessment that the rules will poorly affect movies.
Unfortunately, his opinions alone won’t be enough to defeat the Oscars and its diversity obsession. He’d need more people on his side – and perhaps a bigger boat – for that.
Simmons didn’t explain why it’s “woke abuse” to have people who aren’t white in a film.
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg whined in a Jan. 22 post that an actress doesn’t hate her transgender child and — even worse — refuses to assign a gender to the Oscar statue:
No, this isn’t a Babylon Bee article.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis guest starred on ABC’s The View Monday morning and, unsurprisingly, pushed the leftist agenda that she loves, noting that she “degendered” her Oscars statue and even assigned it “they/them” pronouns because a golden statue apparently cannot affiliate with a gender.
Talk about stupidity!
Nearly one year ago, Curtis won an Oscar as “Best Supporting Actress” for the movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The video shows Curtis’ utter shock when she secured the win.
Despite looking up to the heavens to thank her parents for their endless support, as well as the examples they set by being nominated for their own Academy Awards back in the day, Curtis adopted a rather godless idea about gender and sexuality. In the same speech she thanked her “daughters” (newsflash: she actually has only one daughter, while her son, whom Curtis calls “Ruby,” thinks he’s transgender).
[…]“I have a trans daughter, there is no genitalia [on the statue],” Curtis said. “It lives in my office and I put a googly eye for the homage to ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ and I put a ‘they/them’ button to just make sure anybody coming in understood.”
To which Sunny Hostin replied, “There is ‘they/them,’ that makes sense.”
No, Sunny, it doesn’t.
I can’t say I’m surprised by this whatsoever. God forbid a hollywood celebrity say something that aligns with normalcy!
The Oscars statue is a man. It’s likely modeled after Emilio Fernandez who was a Mexican filmmaker and actor, NPR reported. So no, Jamie – your award is not a “they/them.” But leave it to a leftist freak to turn something good into a way to push progressivism.
Clay Water spent a Jan. 27 post whining that he was pointed out that female director and female lead actress of female-centric “Barbie” didn’t get Oscar nominations, (though the male lead did):
PBS’s arts and culture reporter Jeffrey Brown performed the trick of making the Washington Post’s liberal movie critic Ann Hornaday sound objective and reasonable, on Wednesday evening’s edition of the NewsHour, in a segment on the Oscar nominations that appeared online under the heading, “Oscar nominations spark controversy with snubs of Barbie’s Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig.”
Apparently 8 Oscars nominations for “Barbie” just aren’t enough to assuage the pink-wearing posse who attended the movie as a religious experience akin to a Taylor Swift concert and their outrage has filtered into the media.
Waters was quite pleased that “Hornaday didn’t play along with Geoff and Jeff’s mansplaining about sexism being involved in why the ‘Barbie’ movie got 8 Oscar nominations instead of 10.”
As for the actual awards ceremony, Stephanie Hamill served up the usual MRC complaint that the host wasn’t right-wing enough in a March 11 post:
The 96th Academy Awards got political, again, in all of the most predictable ways. Starting with host Jimmy Kimmel’s lame jokes at the expense of Republicans, the amount of woke movies and Hollywood stars nominated, and political statements via lapel pins.
Just a few minutes into the show, Kimmel launched an attack on Alabama Sen. Katie Britt (R) for her rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s recent State of the Union address.
He tied nominee Emma Stone’s character from the movie “Poor Things” to the senator saying, “Emma played an adult woman with the brain of a child, like the lady who gave the rebuttal to the State of the Union on Thursday night,” he said. “And you were just amazing.”
[…]Later towards the end of the show, Kimmel reads and reacts to former President Donald Trump’s criticism of him and the Oscars that was posted on Truth Social saying, “Thank you for watching. I’m surprised you’re still up. Isn’t it past your jail time?”
[…]In case you were wondering if he dished out any jabs towards democrats [sic], the answer is no. And if you were wondering how many times Joe Biden’s name was mentioned, the answer is exactly zero times.
Funny how silent Hollywood is now, despite the amount of challenges our country is facing under his administration.
When director Jonathan Glazer used his acceptance speech to criticize Israel for its actions in its war against Hamas, the reaction was surprisingly subdued. Brad Wilmouth baselessly called Glazer “far-left” in a March 12 post and complained that a CNN show asked former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett for his response. It also published a March 14 column by Ben Shapiro attacking the director under the headline “Jonathan Glazer’s Evil Oscars Display.”