I woke up an hour ago, just saw this, and am now angered.

[clipse15]

You only have to give one token award to stave off accusations of racism. Best actress was the easiest one, comparatively.

Well not this time, she was awesome in precious. seriously awesome. If the award had been undeserved then yeah, you may be able to trot out this bullshit argument, but it wasn't. She won on her merits, not her race.

And in most years there isn't a black winner of an oscar, not a major one anyway. Take last year, none of the major winners were black. In fact in the major categories there were only two black nominees. And the year before that only one black person was nominated and none won, yet no one cried racism. You can't pass off every black achievement as being the work of liberal guilt on the part of white folks; Precious was a very good film, Monique was very good in it and deserved her award partly because the year was otherwise lacking in outstanding performances and partly because she herself was very, very good.

Oh and FYI, she won best supporting actress not best actress.

Having a fat, stupid (as evidenced by her acceptance speech) angry black woman playing a fat stupid angry black woman isn't exactly challenging.

I do like how at the end there, you pretty much just repeated what I've been saying. Female performances last year were extremely weak. Her competition was Penelope fucking cruz! It was the easiest affirmative action award they've ever had to give.

Of course, its better than giving another award the patron saint of winning multiple oscars for playing the same fucking character, denzel washington.

and I'm sleep deprived. I keep dropping the "supporting" accidentally.

Wow so someone who clearly didn't watch the film (since im gleaning that you have some kind of thing against black people) commenting on how her performance didn't deserve to win?

The logic coming from you is awesome

 

[Ninjamedic]

I'm surprised that Avatar didn't sweep everything automatically.

EDIT: WAIT JUST ONE FUCKING SECOND HERE.

She won it for The Blind Side?! That mind meltingly bland turd of a film?! Jesus Christ, from this I conclude that not only are the Academy Awards selection committee stupid, they are also actually dangerous. Shoot on sight.

(cocks samurai edge) As you command my master.

 

[soapyshooter]

im just glad Avatar didnt win and Waltz won. He fucking deserved that award.

"Thats a bingooooo"

 

[MEEBO17]

i thought this year's choices were ok...

 

[ultrachicken]

I don't watch the oscars for a reason.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/nominees.html

Sandra Bullock won...Best Actress.

The rest I'm okay with. But...Sandra Bullock. Ugh.

Also, I thought Inglorious Basterds should have won for "Writing (Original Screenplay)" over "The Hurt Locker" for that one category.

I also agree that the Basterds should have won.

But honnestly, the Oscars are so incredibly biased, it really doesn't matter anymore. The pick winners on "who's due" so that everybody gets their share, and they are genre biased as well (thus the reason sci-fi's and war movies struggle, while dramas and love stories dominate).

Winning an Oscar is like winning a rigged ballot.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

The only thing I was happy about winning was Monique and Up.

I mean srsly, how the hell did District 9 not win ANYTHING?

 

[foodmaniac]

Dare I say that this is Bullocks? *runs away from all the flaming arrows*

 

[Small Waves]

Up won animated film of the year. I can sleep soundly knowing that all is right with the world.

Also why the fuck did a movie that came out in 2008 win best picture of 2009? Are they implying that this year in movie sucked so bad that they had to nominate a film that was shown at a film festival in September 2008? Fucking academy instantly ass-kissing any movie based off a war.

 

[Kinguendo]

Eh, best supporting actress this year had shit to select from and best actress had to go to the black woman, else they'd be called racist.

Yeah, because a black actress cant actually be good... Have you actually seen the movie she was in? If you did you would know that the Oscar was pretty much guaranteed!

You sir ARE a racist, dont try to deny it... we have all seen your petty ignorance.

 

[Space Cowgirl]

Eh, I didn't bother to watch the Oscars. Hell, I didn't even know they were even on, since it's against my personal philosophy to watch television anymore. But I have to say that I'm actually not the biggest fan of Sandra Bullock, really.