In this reading there are various impressions regarding how awards and nominations are managed.
“I think the Academy is making an effort to please everyone, and it reflects the state of the world, but I feel they are being held hostage, somewhat unfairly, by the awakening,” added the actor, who disagrees with the criteria “every time more political and increasingly commercial” of the group.
This installment was marked by the rebuff to the nomination for Best Actress for Viola Davis (The Woman King) and Danielle Deadwyler (till) to name a few cases, being an event in which the nominees are mostly light-skinned actors, this voter points out that the Academy is doing its part to defend diversity in the industry.
“When they get in trouble for not giving Viola Davis an award, it’s like, no, honey, you didn’t deserve it. We voted, and we voted for the five that we thought were the best,” she concluded in her statement.
“It’s not fair that you start banging on a frying pan all of a sudden and say they’re ignoring black people. They’re not really doing it, they’re making an effort. Maybe there was a time 10 years ago when they were doing it, but they, anyway the high profile stuff, you’ve been at the forefront of wanting to be inclusive. Viola Davis and the director need to sit down, shut up and relax. You didn’t get a nomination, a lot of movies don’t get nominations. Viola, you’ve got an Oscar or two, you are doing well”, he qualifies about the case of Davis.