Race-Hoax Debunked: 225 Bigger Oscar Snubs Than 'Selma'

Producer Oprah Winfrey’s Selma won two Oscar nominations Thursday morning: Best Picture and Best Song. Because the Civil Rights drama failed to win nominations for its director, star or script, people are claiming it was snubbed (it was — the Best Pic nod is an also-ran) and crying racism.

I thought some context might help.

Before he won an Oscar at age 64, Martin Scorsese directed Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, King Comedy, Color of Money, and The Age of Innocence.

Selma is only director Ana DuVernay’s third feature film. She is just 42 years old.

Before he won an Oscar at age 61 , Paul Newman starred in The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, The Long Hot Summer, Verdict, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cat On Hot Tin Roof, Sting, and Slap Shot.

David Oyelwo’s first big starring role is in Selma. He is just 38 years old.

As far as the racism charge, 10% of the acting nominations over the last 5 years have gone to black actors, which is almost perfectly in line with the 12.6% (on average over the last 5 years) population of ratio of blacks in America. Moreover, 7 films focusing on race and racism have been nominated for Best Picture in the last 5 years. Last year “12 Years a Slave” won Best Picture.

Yes, the cry of racism around Selma is, like Selma itself, just another in a long line of race-hoaxes dumped on the American people this year (Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Oprah’s Swiss purse lie).

Selma’s real problem is that it just isn’t a very good movie.

While the left crybabies over Oscar’s snub of Selma, here are 225 bigger Oscar snubs; a list of people who have never won a competitive Oscar, and a list of movies better than Selma that not only failed to win an Oscar, but were never even nominated! (Source.)

Alfred Hitchcock
Michael Mann
Orson Welles
Christopher Nolan
Jean Simmons
Annette Bening
Glenn Close
Agnes Morehead
Judy Davis
Gena Rowlands
Mia Farrow
Greta Garbo
Marilyn Monroe
Myrna Loy
Marlene Dietrich
Jean Harlowe
Carol Lombard
Lauren Bacall
Irene Dunne
Maureen O’Hara
Rosalind Russell
Martin Sheen
Steve McQueen
James Caan
Harvey Keitel
James Mason
Montgomery Clift
Eli Wallach
Bruce Dern
Gary Oldmam
Judy Garland
John Malkovich
Ed Harris
Donald Sutherland
Richard Harris
Peter Sellers
Cary Grant
Albert Finney
Deborah Kerr
Richard Burton
Fred Astaire
Kirk Douglas
Barbara Stanwyck
Edward G. Robinson
Peter O’Toole
Jean Simmons
Ridley Scott
Buster Keaton
Howard Hawks
Robert Altman
Sam Peckinpah
John Cassavetes
Sidney Lumet
Brian DePalma
David Lynch
Spike Lee
Lillian Gish
Errol Flynn
Joseph Cotton
Maurice Chevalier
Peter Lorre
Charlie Chaplin (except for a score award)
Stanley Kubrick (except for a special effects award)
George Lucas
Ernst Lubitsch
King Vidor
Arthur Penn
Fritz Lang
Akira Kurosawa
D.W. Griffith
Cecil B. DeMille
Ava Gardner
Rita Hayworth
Boris Karloff
Robert Mitchum
Thelma Ritter
Joan Allen
Sigourney Weaver
Dana Andrews
Lew Ayers
John Barrymore
Ralph Bellamy
Roddy MacDowall
Charles Boyer
Lee J. Cobb
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
W. C. Fields
James Garner
John Garfield
Elliott Gould
Dennis Hopper
James Earl Jones
Gene Kelly
Arthur Kennedy
Anthony Perkins
William Powell
Tyrone Power
Walter Pidgeon
Claude Rains
Basil Rathbone
Will Rogers
Mickey Rooney
Robert Shaw
Richard Widmark
Clifton Webb
Jean Arthur
Ida Lupino
Jacqueline Bisset
Madeline Kahn
Bette Midler
Kim Novak
Michelle Pfeiffer
Lana Turner
Gloria Swanson
Margaretr Sullavan
Elsa Lanchester
Julie Harris
Blake Edwards
Richard Brooks
Tim Burton
William Wellman
Josef von Strernberg
Otto Preminger
W.S. Van Dyke
F.W. Murnau
Alan J. Pakula
Mervyn LeRoy
Stanley Kramer
John Frankenheimer
Stanley Donen
Advise and Consent (1962)
Bananas (1971)
Beat the Devil (1954)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Blood Simple (1984)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Brute Force (1947)
City Lights (1931)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Dracula (1931)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Duck Soup
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Farewell My Lovely (1944)
Fort Apache (1948)
Frankenstein (1931)
Freaks (1933)
The Front Page (1975)
Gilda (1946)
Gun Crazy (1949)
Hard-Boiled (1992)
Heat (1995)
High Sierra (1941)
His Girl Friday (1940)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Invisible Man (1933)
It’s a Gift (1934)
The Killing (1956)
The Parallax View (1974)
King Kong (1933)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Lonely are the Brave (1962)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Long Riders (1980)
M (1931)
Mean Streets (1973)
Medium Cool (1969)
Metropolis (1927)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
The Misfits (1961)
Modern Times (1936)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Mummy (1933)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
A Night at the Opera (1934)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
Oliver Twist (1948)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Out of the Past (1947)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Point Blank (1967)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scarface (1932)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Searchers (1956)
The Shining (1980)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Sid and Nancy (1986)
State of the Union (1948)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
They Live By Night (1949)
The Thing (1951)
Things to Come (1936)
The 39 Steps (1935)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
A Walk in the Sun (1946)
The Wild One (1953)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
The Women (1939)
The Wrong Man (1957)

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Cry me a river, Selma…

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Race-Hoax Debunked: 225 Bigger Oscar Snubs Than ‘Selma’

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