Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts
March 03, 2016

Diversity lacking at 2016 Oscars

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Chris Rock’s Oscars didn’t “fight the power”: A night of crude jokes and cynical deflection is a poor way to show progress Rock's big ...
February 29, 2016

Asian jokes at 2016 Oscars

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If the Oscars were all about diversity, why the crude Asian joke? By Jessica Contrera Chris Rock opened his monologue by saying he’d never...

Recapping the 2016 Oscars

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I guess Chris Rock dropped a lot of truth bombs at last night's Academy Awards , but I didn't find his monologue especially incisive...
February 28, 2016

Facebooking the 2016 Oscars

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Some people live-tweet events such as the Oscars. This year I posted a running commentary on Facebook. Here it is: Opening monologue I...

Duane Howard at the Oscars

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It's extremely rare to see a Native at the Academy Award ceremony. So it's worth noting that actor Duane Howard attended this year....
January 24, 2016

Movie and TV diversity sells

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After the #OscarsSoWhite announcement for 2016, Hollywood once again considered its failure to diversify. In Hollywood, a major disconnec...
January 17, 2016

Diversity is "an artistic necessity"

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More on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy : Oscars 2016: It's time for Hollywood to stop defining great drama as white men battling adver...
January 15, 2016

Why are Oscars so white?

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Some analyses of the #OscarsSoWhite phenomena: The unbearable whiteness of Hollywood: The Academy should be ashamed—but the problem is bi...
January 14, 2016

#OscarsSoWhite 2016

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Oscars 2016: Here's why the nominees are so white--again By Rebecca Keegan and Steven Zeitchik It's another embarrassing Hollywood...
January 11, 2016

Mixed reactions to DiCaprio's speech

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Reactions to Leonardo DiCaprio's Golden Globes speech poured in quickly. Some of them were off-the-charts ecstatic: Leonardo DiCapri...
January 10, 2016

DiCaprio's Golden Globes speech

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After the Golden Globes Sunday night, Leonardo DiCaprio's acceptance speech was the talk of Indian country: Beginning at the 2:19 ma...
February 24, 2015

Immigration at the 2015 Oscars

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This year's Oscars unmasked Hollywood's most dubious views Despite stirring support for the spirit of Selma, and big prizes for Hi...
February 23, 2015

Race at the 2015 Oscars

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In Their Moment of ‘Glory,’ Common and John Legend Showed the World Why the Selma Struggle Truly Is ‘Now’ With their electrifying accepta...
February 22, 2015

Misty Upham in the 2015 Oscars

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Here are my Facebook comments on the 2015 Academy Awards. The big issue for fans of Native movies was whether actress Misty Upham would app...
January 16, 2015

Another white year at Oscars

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People are talking about how the acclaimed movie Selma got only two Oscar nominations. Here are some thoughts on why it happened: Oscar ...
March 03, 2014

Results of the #NotYourTonto storm

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No Oscar for redface–but is that progress? By Adrienne Keene Last night, when the category came up for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, I held...
March 02, 2014

Faux Indians at the 2014 Oscars

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After the run-up to the Oscars: Twitter storm planned for Oscars Before the #NotYourTonto storm Here's what I tweeted before and du...
March 01, 2014

Before the #NotYourTonto storm

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Native Americans Protest 'The Lone Ranger' Oscar Nomination for Redface By bahesmama Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, a grou...