A little oversight for Hollywood
From
The Hollywood Reporter:
'2016' Oscar Snub Has Filmmakers Claiming Political Bias
Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of Schindler�s List, is claiming political bias because a documentary movie he produced this year isn't up for an Oscar, even though that film, 2016: Obama�s America, made more money at the box office than the combined earning of the 15 films the Academy deemed eligible.
2016, a negative take on President Barack Obama co-written and directed by author Dinesh D�Souza, earned $33.4 million at the domestic box office. But its omission on the list of the 15 documentaries the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday would advance in the voting process makes it ineligible for an Oscar.
"Dinesh warned me this might happen," Molen said with a laugh Tuesday. "The action confirms my opinion that the bias against anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival in Hollywood circles. The film�s outstanding success means that America went to see the documentary in spite of how Hollywood feels about it."
Does not surprise me -- we saw it and it was excellent. Well scripted and produced. A powerful and true message.
Dinesh D�Souza offered this comment:
"I want to thank the Academy for not nominating our film,� D�Souza joked. "By ignoring 2016, the top-performing box-office hit of 2012, and pretending that films like Searching for Sugar Man and This Is Not a Film are more deserving of an Oscar, our friends in Hollywood have removed any doubt average Americans may have had that liberal political ideology, not excellence, is the true standard of what receives awards."
Gee -- maybe
people should push to get the
Hollywood Tax Credits looked at. I mean there is a
lot of money that could be redistributed to more worthy causes than
mansions and jet airplanes.
We may not have the Presidency or the Senate but we have the House and it is time to hold people's feet to the fire. It is also time to start working at a grassroots level and clean out the deadwood from the Republican Party. Both parties have strayed from their original ideals -- it is time to get back to our roots...
Posted by DaveH at December 5, 2012 8:59 PM