ATM1876 said:

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He should be mad, not because his movie didn't win but because he's been speaking out about these fairy tale Hollywood racial conciliation movies made by and for white people for thirty years. Hell, he even had a scene in BlacKkKlansman where they talk about how African Americans have been stereotyped in Hollywood movies since movies were first made. This is not a good look for Hollywood...

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Bruce Almighty said:

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It was nice when movies like Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Gladiator and LotR were winning. You know, movies that people will still be watching 10 years from now.

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GiveEmHellBill said:

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So, conspiracy theory time:

Is Roma's snub because of it being a Netflix movie?

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GiveEmHellBill said:

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Mahershala Ali won the Supporting Actor Oscar for Green Book (his second Oscar in the past three years), was in the Best Picture of the year AND the Best Animated Movie of the year.

Plus, he's a shoo-in for an Emmy for True Detective.

Is it safe to say he may be the best actor currently working right now?

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If you're discussing the Don Shirley family thing, that falls on me, but Don Shirley himself told me to not speak to anyone,' Vallelonga told reporters after the awards show per The Hollywood Reporter. "He told me the story he wanted to tell. He protected his private life, and all the other things about him, miraculous things about him. He was an amazing man." Vallelonga continued, "He told me, 'If you're going to tell the story, you tell it from your father, me, no one else. Don't speak to anyone else. That's how you have to make it. And also, he told me, 'Don't make it until after I pass away.' So I just kept my word to that man."

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Vallelonga's explanation contradicts statements made by Don Shirley's nephew Edwin Shirley III, who, along with Don's brother Maurice and other relatives, claims his uncle not only told them about the film pitch, but about his decision to reject the concept as well. "I remember very, very clearly, going back 30 years, my uncle had been approached by Nick Vallelonga, the son of Tony Vallelonga, about a movie on his life, and Uncle Donald told me about it," Edwin told Shadow and Act in December. "He flatly refused."

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If you're discussing the Don Shirley family thing, that falls on me, but Don Shirley himself told me to not speak to anyone,' Vallelonga told reporters after the awards show per The Hollywood Reporter. "He told me the story he wanted to tell. He protected his private life, and all the other things about him, miraculous things about him. He was an amazing man." Vallelonga continued, "He told me, 'If you're going to tell the story, you tell it from your father, me, no one else. Don't speak to anyone else. That's how you have to make it. And also, he told me, 'Don't make it until after I pass away.' So I just kept my word to that man."

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Since its ghastly but predictable triumph at the Oscars, Green Book has been called the "worst best picture Oscar winner since Crash," the latest example of the Academy "pissing on itself on a world stage like Jackson Maine." Not wrong. Yet Green Book was not the worst movie to win at the Academy Awards last night, nor was its victory the night's most embarrassing. That is because Skin won.

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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It was nice when movies like Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Gladiator and LotR were winning. You know, movies that people will still be watching 10 years from now.

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But I honestly think IW or Fallout should be considered and should be the winner. Not saying the biggest money maker or biggest blockbuster should always win, but action should be considered. Those movies did what they set out to do better than any others made in 2018, therefore they should be awarded for that....

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I'm just going to describe the plot now. (Spoilers ahead for a bad movie I hope you never watch.) Skin opens with a portrait of a father, a mother, and their young son, attending backwoods shooting sessions and joyriding a couch tied to the back of a truck. At first, the film reads as an affectionate portrait of a particular flavor of blue-collar whiteness. Then one night at the supermarket, a black man in line smiles at the son, and when the white father sees this, suddenly his Nazi tattoos become clearer. He fires off a racial slur, and the two men exchange words. The father and his Nazi gang then brutally beat the black man nearly to death in the parking lot as his own wife and young son watch, screaming, in a nearby car.

Aside from its cavalier brutality, Skin is, at this point, a familiar but effective story of how racist violence lurks barely below the domestic surfaces of white America. Then this happens: Some time later, the Nazi father falls for a trap in the road and, as his son looks on, is kidnapped and thrown in the back of a van. He's brought to a garage, where a group of black menpointedly including a young boycut off his clothes and hook him up to an IV. Hmm, we think, not going to end well for the Nazi. Then one of the men fires up a tattoo needle. After a long, creepily lit tattoo session, the group dumps the Nazi in the street, and we realizeas he doesthat they have tattooed his entire body so he appears to be dark-skinned. How about that, Nazi guy? The man then goes to his house, where his young son shoots him dead. The camera lingers on the son holding a rifle; he looks scared, but also satisfied with himself, not unlike this film. The end.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Apparently, Spielberg was campaigning hard against Roma because it was a Netflix movie and not a traditional theatrical release.

It'll be interesting to see if he does the same with his buddy's movie The Irishman next year.

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