2021 Oscars- A low Energy, Gloomy, “Woke” Lecture on Diversity, Police Killings and Social Justice

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AP summarized:  Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director and the first woman of color.

The “Nomadland” victory, while widely expected, nevertheless capped the extraordinary rise of Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose winning film is just her third, and which — with a budget less than $5 million and featuring a cast populated by non-professional actors — ranks as one of the most modest-sized movies to win Hollywood’s top honor. Zhao’s next film, Marvel’s “Eternals,” has a budget approximately 40 times that of “Nomadland.” Only Kathryn Bigelow, 11 years ago for “The Hurt Locker,” had previously won best director.

In the night’s biggest surprise, best actor went to Anthony Hopkins for the dementia drama “The Father.” The award had been widely expected to go to Chadwick Boseman for his final performance in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Hopkins was not in attendance.

The full list of winners is towards the bottom of this article.

There is no doubt that the 2021 Academy Awards were none like we have ever seen before. Wokeism, identity politics and racial strife took center stage and everything else came in as a very distant second. Yes, black entertainers, movie makers, producers and writers all had a mouthful to say about racism in this country and all used this platform to keenly influence black dominance in Hollywood.

Having said that, there was very little Jewish presence in the award ceremony this year.

Coming in with 10 Oscar nominations was the Netflix black and white film “Mank” about the life of Jewish screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and his screenplay for the celebrated film “Citizen Kane” starring Orson Welles. Unfortunately, it did not garner the number of wins as the streaming service expected. Netflix also drew six Oscar nods for “The Trial of the Chicago 7” about the arrests of political activists during the 1968 Chicago riots.  Sacha Baron Cohen was nominated for the role of Abbie Hoffman in the film, who was a Jewish kid from Massachusetts before venturing out in the world of anti-establishment politics.   Aaron Sorkin, the Jewish writer-director received an Academy nomination for best original screenplay for the Chicago 7 film.

The other major streaming service, Amazon, received nominations for “One Night in Miami” and “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” — one of two movies that earned creator Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar nomination.

Israel received an Oscar nod in the best live action short film category for Tomer Shushan’s “White Eye,” a poignant 21-minute film, which he wrote and directed about an Eritrean worker getting by in Israel and being wrongly accused of stealing a bicycle from an Israeli man.

Released in October 2019, the short film has appeared in and received awards at such festivals as the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (Best Narrative Short), the Haifa International Film Festival (Best Short Film) and the 2020 SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Narrative Short, according to a JNS report.

Speaking to Jewish Insider, Shushan said, “The story actually happened to me. I found myself fighting to get my bike back, and I almost made a man go to jail, to be deported from Israel. I just sat down like one hour after the situation and I wrote the script in 40 minutes.”

Left-wing Hollywood has turned the once-beloved annual ritual into a hectoring lecture on diversity and left-wing politics. Celebrities line up to insult half the country. And A-list elites drone on about climate change even though many of them flew private jets to appear at the ceremony. Making matters worse, this year’s nominees have the lowest level of audience awareness of any Oscars ceremony in recent memory. Millions of viewers will not have seen or even heard of Nomadland, Minari, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, or Sound of Metal. The level of enthusiasm is so low that ABC has reportedly slashed commercial rates for what is normally an evening that rivals the Super Bowl in terms of ad buys.

Taken to task for failing to live up to the woke mob’s inclusion standards, the shift in nominated films has been pronounced. – Breitbart News-

The show kicked off with woke fury, as Regina King furthered the narrative that black men are an endangered species because of the police, even though, police shooting’s continuously reaching new low’s every year.

Actress-turned-director Regina King wasted little time Sunday by kicking off the 93rd annual Academy Awards by declaring she would have protested in Minnesota “if things had gone differently this past week,” in an apparent reference to the verdict in the Derek Chauvin case.

Regina King began with a long track through Union Station in downtown Los Angeles before ending up in front of a live audience.

“I have to be honest: if things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis I might’ve traded in my heels for marching boots,” King said. “I know many of you want to reach for your remote when you feel Hollywood is preaching to you, but as the mother of a black son who fears for his safety, I know the fear that so many live with. And no fame or fortune changes that. OK?”

Daniel Kaluuya wins Best Supporting Actor for his role as Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in Judas And The Black Messiah

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom wins Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Winner Mia Neal delivered an emotional speech, saying “”I can picture Black trans women standing up here. And Asian sisters. And our Latina sisters. And indigenous women. And I know that one day it won’t be unusual or groundbreaking.”

Chloé Zhao wins Best Directing for Nomadland

Two Distant Strangers wins Best live Action Short Film. The street radical lecture kicked into high gear.

Two Distant Strangers writer-director Travon Free launched into an anti-police rant from the stage. “Today, the police will kill three people. And tomorrow, the police will kill three people. And the day after that, the police will kill three people. Because on average the police in America every day kill about three people,” Free said. “Which amounts to about a thousand people a year. And those people happen to be disproportionately black people.”

“James Baldwin once said, ‘The most despicable thing a person can be is indifferent to other people’s pain’…Please, don’t be indifferent to our pain,” Free said.

 The second Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award of the night goes to Tyler Perry, whose speech had a more unifying tone

The show has gone all the way off the rails. Get Out star and comedian Lil Rel Howery stepped in to host what felt like an impromptu and nonetheless wild Oscars music trivia. Actress Glenn Close got up to shake her butt to the 1988 hit “Da Butt.”

Frances McDormand wins Best Actress for her role in Nomadland.  She starts literally howling like a wolf, as a way to cap off a bizarre awards ceremony which is sure to score the lowest ratings in the history of the Oscars 

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