Fox, "But we also need to ask why people do not go to see these films - when the critics are unanimous in their praise, and then the film is a disaster at the box office"

When the revolution comes, eh? Then the re-educated public will see the films they are supposed to see and like them - just like North Korea.

OTB,

I'm worried about you.

You seem obsessed with Revolutions.
And all things Socialist, et al.
You manage to bring these topics
into just about every one of your posts -
no matter what the topic - appropriate
or not.

But in this discussion they're not
appropriate - or are you expressing your
subconscious. It's not appropriate talking
about Revolutions and North Korea when the
discussion is about the
highest movie awards - the Oscars, of a
capitalistic country like the USA.

Try sticking to the topic.
You can do it.
Give it a go.

Here's the link that explains why "Selma"
did not win for best picture:

http://newrepublic.com/article/121113/selma-oscar-snub-why-film-wont-win-best-picture

Foxy you are very patient with some of the comrades on this forum... :)

My mother wants me to go and see 'Carol' with her this weekend (?), so I will get to see if I think Kate Blanchett should have been nominated for an Oscar or not.

The media seem to think she wasn't nominated because of the subject matter of the film. Lesbian love apparently didn't appeal to the conservative old males who hold all the power when giving out Oscars.
Or...maybe she just wasn't that good in this movie?

Suseonline,

Your post and Fox's say a lot about your and her biases. Neither of you is particularly enamoured with 'Whites'(sic), especially 'White' men. You are not so keen on seniors which is expected for social rule-breakers who for example, want to trash the Marriage Act because it represents a cultural tradition and morality you despise.

You yourself are the forum's expert on gays and posted often on anal sex, even where no-one else had mentioned it(?!). Strangely though it is only recently that you have started to refer to lesbians. Odd that is, but hey, whatever comes out in the wash.

Your propensities, like Fox's, are your own affair and freedom of speech is the single most distinguishing feature and most important, that separates democratic, tolerant Australia from many other nations in the UN.

Just saying, that it would be a very great surprise if Fox and yourself didn't find offence and of course it MUST be 'White' male seniors at the root of it.

Kate Blanchett has won many of the glittering prizes of acting and she has won often. Applying Occam's razor, if she didn't win this time it is because another did better. Too easy, next?

OTB,

I don't hate white men.

I married one.

What I don't find attractive is men of any
colour who act like the cast from the
film "Deliverance," snaggletooth, hill-billies.