To make up for the past and not giving them recognition in earlier films. Everyone is saying Eddie Murhpy deserved an Oscar! He doesn't. He is a great comedian but he just cannot act in dramatic movies, he's not believable. Was Jennifer all that great?
2007-02-26 00:23:58 · 16 answers · asked by SHELTIELUVER 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Like I said, I do not mean to offend anyone! I agree that Forrest probably did deserve it but Jennifer, I just don't know. Alot of you just liked the movie because it had like Beyonce in it and everyone loves Jennifer (she does seem like a truly sweet girl and there is not a doubt in my mind that she is a talented SINGER but she isn't an actress). By the way, I have dated black men and have a half sister who is bi-racial so I am by no means racist. My biggest idol is also Oprah and I love hip-hop so don't call me racist. I'm far from it.
2007-02-26 15:25:11 · update #1
I didn't see the movie, but I do have a problem with Jennifer Hudson winning, just because that's the only movie she's ever been in. I can't believe she was that great to just be handed a statue because everyone feels bad she didn't win american idol. my god, most of the people nominated have been working their tail off for years, just look at Helen Mirren. I dunno, maybe I'll see it and totally change my views, but who knows
2007-02-26 00:28:03 · answer #1 · answered by thuglife 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think that is the case at all. I really think that up until about twenty years ago the main roles black actors were offered were primarily secondary roles. You had the occasional role where the whole point of the movie was race relations (In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), but little else. In the 80's we started seeing the John Singleton and Spike Lee films. I think that opened things up in Hollywood and now many roles are color and gender blind. When that happened you started seeing actors get roles where they could truly shine and Oscar is responding to that. I think they only 'make up' for gross oversights to individuals, and sometimes whining (ala Zellweger).
As for Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson, I didn't see Dreamgirls. I have heard that Hudson pured her heart into the role. It shouldn't matter that it was her first film. Marlee Matlin won her first time out and so have many others. I find it more questionable that Shakespeare in Love beat Private Ryan or that apparently Spielburg and Scorsese never made a great movie until Schindler's List and The Departed (their first wins).
2007-02-26 01:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by Viewaskew 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jennifer Hudson most definitely deserved to win the Academy Award for her role as Effie in DreamGirls. She was fantastic! I cried when she sang, and so did many others!
Please don't knock it if you haven't seen it. The movie was wonderful. Eddie Murphy was wonderful. I've never been that much of an Eddie Murphy fan, but he was great in this movie.
BTW, I'm a white female, and grew up in the time when black people had to sit in the back of the bus. Some people my age may still be prejudiced, but I'm not, and I never was.
Jennifer deserved to win, and it has absolutely nothing to do with American Idol. She poured her heart and soul into this part.
So my answer is no, they're not picking more blacks just because they didn't get Oscars in the past. They win when they deserve it, though I will agree that some people may vote for their friends, just like in any voting. It's human nature. Then again, maybe they vote against their friends if they don't want their friends to win more Oscars than they themselves have! Again, it's human nature.
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2007-02-26 00:40:27 · answer #3 · answered by OhWhatCanIDo 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Dang!!!!! Give them a break half the comments haven't even seen the movie and are ready to slam theses people. I recently went to see dream girls and you know what it was a great movie very entertaining glad i spent my money oppose to ghost rider which wasn't that great of movie but your question considering the hardtime we african american did go threw is a little tacky could you just imagine every day waking up too the bull white folks were pulling back in the day i'm an african american and i can't imagine no white person telling me what to do where to walk, sit,eat,drink etc.........................but i disagree with you i think the oscar was deserving to Jennifer she was wonderful.
2007-02-26 01:13:47 · answer #4 · answered by Toni H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Oscars follow a certain trend. Remember the time when SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE won as Best Picture? That is also the year when the film participants seemed attending a costume party. The other nominees were as such as ELIZABETH, THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE, etc. The judgment may be wrong. But it proved one thing. The jurors follow their own taste. Who knows? The majority of them may be African-American.
2007-02-26 00:32:24 · answer #5 · answered by Sakky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just think people are more open minded about who they give Oscars to now, whereas perhaps they weren't in the past. America has kind of always tended to give awards to "its own" in some types of awards (especially country music etc.!) and at least it's opened up considerably in the film industry.
2007-02-26 00:30:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you had actually SEEN "The Last King of Scotland," you wouldn't be asking this question.
Have you even SEEN "Dreamgirls?"
The day we stop seeing things in terms of black and white is the day we take a huge step towards eliminating racism.
2007-02-26 01:19:42 · answer #7 · answered by Team Chief 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have absolutely NO desire to see Dreamgirls and I can't imagine that anyone's performance in that film could out-do Helen Mirren or Meryl Streep.
2007-02-26 00:35:10 · answer #8 · answered by sarafaith7 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who cares!!! These award shows were created for rich actors to feel more superior to other rich actors. I don't watch these things, and don't based which movies I think are good based on these things.
2007-02-26 00:32:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
that's ridiculous the blacks that won this year did an incredible job in their roles although i would not put it past those politically correct Hollywood liberals
2007-02-26 02:05:13 · answer #10 · answered by slayton59 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋