'2016' Oscar Snub Has Filmmakers Claiming Political Bias

[RockaFowler]

Gerald Molen, who produced the Academy Award-winning 'Schindler's List,' said the box-office success of the anti-Obama documentary proves the film was a hit: "The action confirms my opinion that the bias against anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival in Hollywood."
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


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/2016-oscar-snub-has-filmmakers-397855#comments

Where is the whambulance??

[tridim]

1. Porn makes money, where's their Oscar?

Idiot.

[CatWoman]

22. LOL

I think we are mind melding

[Hissyspit]

2. LOL

It doesn't have anything to do with it being a "hit," dumbfuck.

[mikeysnot]

3. A documentary has to be about the truth

not wishful thinking. Because it made money does not merit an Oscar nod. The Saw films suck, and make a lot of money but they are not considered Oscar worthy.

[dsc]

4. In fairness that category has had major problems in the past

and may well have screwed up again. That said I watched only two of the 16 films mentioned (Bully, How to Survive a Plague) and both were exceptional documentaries. I can't fathom that 2016 is in their league.

[still_one]

7. I would not include dinish's film/book in the same sentence as the word fairness

[OldDem2012]

12. I think to qualify for the category you have to produce a film based on facts....

....I think that excludes '2016' just after the opening credits, assuming the credits are indeed accurate.

[still_one]

5. No asshole, they are ignoring it because it is a lying piece of distortion from the hypocritical

philandering asshole dinish

[HughBeaumont]

6. Gee, a speculative movie filled with lame interpretations by a lying creationist didn't get the nod?

GOTTA be because'a BIAS!!!

[joeybee12]

8. He produced Schindler's List?????????

Phuck!

[RockaFowler]

9. I guess Drudge sent his minions to that site

The comments are overrun by right-wimg kooks.

"I'll never watch the Academy Awards again" - like they ever did

"Hollywood is full of elitists" - just because they believe in fairness and equality for all they are elitists??

I'm really sick of these idiots. They believe in whatever Faux News or Drudge or Limpballs tells them. They have no real thought pattern. And they blame the schools on everything . . . Oy Vey!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

16. They say that every year....

....whenever Penn, or Clooney, or some "librul gay agenda movie" wins. Fuck them.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

10. Let's compare...

Total Box Office:

"2016" has earned about $33 million to date. By comparison, "Dude Where's My Car?" earned $73 million ($94 million adjusted for inflation since 2000).

And I never heard Ashton Kutcher bitching about not being nominated.

So shut the fuck up.

[tarheelsunc]

11. The answer is simple: it's a fauxcumentary, not a documentary.

I actually watched it (for free, obviously) for laughs. Dinesh D'Stupid made baseless claims and didn't even attempt to provide evidence for them. The only people paying to watch it are conservatives who enjoy being fed crap and conspiracy theorists.

[Schema Thing]

13. I really thought this was going to be The Onion.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. It didn't do well with Rotten Tomatos.

The people have spoken.

[KharmaTrain]

15. Awards Aren't Based On Box Office...

...well for the most part. It's decided by the members of the MPAA...it's their show and if Mr. Molen and his right wing buddies don't like this, they can start their own awards. Why not? The great unhinged have set up their own reality...why not an award show to "reward" those who are the most detached?

[Kelvin Mace]

17. I don't think that word...

(documentary) means what you think it means.

[Initech]

18. Could it be because the film is a piece of shit?

[Lint Head]

19. Obama won the election Gerald. Get over it. Obviously your blockbuster made as big an impact

as a gnat's fart.

[EC]

20. Which category did he think this film

should have been judged?

[bongbong]

21. Hollywood repig sore losers

Between this whining & Kelsey Grammer's whining, the repigs should just start their own parallel awards shows.

Have music, film, TV, etc awards just for whining 'pigs.

[trueblue2007]

23. 2016 was a LOSER MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!

does NOT deserve an Oscar nomination