Comments on: Oscar Question of the Day – Black or White? http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white By Clayton Davis - Home for Academy Awards, Oscars, and all other award show predictions Tue, 21 May 2013 11:54:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ed Sylvan http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-43304 Ed Sylvan Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:11:02 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-43304 5 Things Black Indie Films Must Do To Compete In Hollywood. http://bit.ly/TlrwW5

]]> By: Ramirez http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-43215 Ramirez Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:00:22 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-43215 Alfred Molina / Supporting Actor for FRIDA

Lourdes Varela / Lead Actress for THE ENEMY
(A 2008 film from Venezuela, Varela gives a chilling performance as the mother of a kid who is being held in jail, a random guy start talking to her and she tells her story, her drama and how she get there, this same guy is somewhat related to the fate his son is about to reach … )

Zhang Ziyi for / Lead Actress / The House of Flying Daggers

]]> By: Josh P. http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-42889 Josh P. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:37:59 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-42889 I remembered that I would have also picked Ken Wantanabe to win Best Supporting Actor for “The Last Samurai”.

]]> By: Massimo http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-42867 Massimo Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:10:27 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-42867 Zhang Ziyi & Gong Li in Memoirs of a Geisha

]]> By: Joe Gouveia http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-42764 Joe Gouveia Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:06:39 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-42764 Some that come to mind:

1967 – Sidney Poitier and Isabel Stanford should have been nominated and won for their supporting turns in ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’. Poitier should have also been nominated in his supporting work in both ‘The Blackboard Jungle (1955) and ‘A Patch of Blue (1965).
1961 – Claudia McNeil should have a got lead actress nomination for ‘Raisin in the sun”

]]> By: Rohit Ramachandran http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-42626 Rohit Ramachandran Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:13:43 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-42626 Completely agree.

]]> By: koook160 (Robert MacFarlane) http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-42589 koook160 (Robert MacFarlane) Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:45:04 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-42589 Spike Lee is almost certainly the only choice for Best Director in 1989 that doesn’t make want strangle someone. Of course, they snubbed him and Do the Right Thing. One of Kim Basinger’s finest moments was calling the Academy out in the middle of presenting a nominee for the supposed prejudice. THAT take guts.

Also Samuel L. Jackson should have won in 1994, but not for Supporting Actor. He had just as much relevence to the plot as Travolta, and only slightly less screen time. That, and I wouldn’t have to choose between him or Landau for Supporting Actor. And no, I don’t think Hanks’s performance aged very well.

So far this year, I would very much like to see Nate Parker get a nomination for Arbitrage. He easily stole the entire movie.

]]> By: Steve Glansberg http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-42578 Steve Glansberg Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:12:40 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-42578 Benicio del Toro for “Che” in 2008 and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” in 1998.
Brock Peters for “To Kill a Mockingbird” 1962.
Ken Watanabe in “Letters from Iwo Jima” 2006.

And I concur with the Anthony Mackie, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro suggestions.

]]> By: Anupam http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-42573 Anupam Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:55:50 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-42573 I was thinking of some of the other actors, especially Irrfan Khan and Michelle Yeoh. I thought Khan deserved a nomination for The Namesake over Jackie Haley, even though I would not recommend him for a win. Yeoh was fantastic in the otherwise bad, The Lady and surely deserved the nomination more than Rooney Mara. But these are the more recent ones from Asia that i was thinking of. Its seriously impossible to believe that only one Black woman has in the history of the Oscars won the Best Actress prize. I am sure, besides Viola, there are more actresses that we are missing now. One big loss for me is Cicely Tyson for The Sounders (1972) who I thought was much more deserving than Liza Minelli.

]]> By: missionstatement1224 http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/25/oscar-question-of-the-day-black-or-white/#comment-42559 missionstatement1224 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:10:27 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=36038#comment-42559 I totally agree with the Dennis Haysbert in Far From Heaven and Anthony Mackie for the Hurt Locker comments.

Some others:

Zoe Saldana – Avatar
Michael Pena – The Lucky Ones, Crash (one of my favorite performances ever)
Queen Latifah – Hairspray
Guillermo Del Toro – Pan’s Labyrinth (director)
Alfonso Cuaron – Children of Men (director)
Ivana Baquero – Pan’s Labyrinth
Sergi Lopez – Pan’s Labyrinth
Q’rianka Kilcher – The New World
Denzel Washington – Remember the Titans (kind of shocked he didn’t get nominated)
Sanaa Lathan – Love & Basketball
Marlon Wayans – Requiem for a Dream
Regina King – Jerry Maguire
Cuba Gooding Jr. – Boyz n the Hood

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