The NAACP Awards strike again
(A response to the slate of nominees for NAACP awards I posted in another community but may be too far down the list for anyone to notice.)
The NAACP Nominees are...
Who's looking at this list and thinking that Sandra Bullock is the problem??!! This whole slate is full of failure. What is it, bootleg DVD viewer's choice?
There were approximately 150 films in mainstream or close to mainstream release and they picked actors out of 14 of them (counting only 1 foriegn film, 1 indie film, and dismissing docos).
If you want to roll with the NAACP's theory of image, how about these notable exceptions:
- Zoe Saldana as Uhura from "Star Trek"
- Jaimie Foxx in "The Soloist" (Really, you nominate him for "Law Abiding Citizen" of this?)
- Half the cast of "Notorious" (I mean really, you don't nominate anybody from Notorious?)
And how do you get such sterling efforts like Lenny Kravitz's 30 seconds in "Precious" (save that you simply want to nominate all things "Precious" to placate Winfrey and Perry)and skip over other performances of equal length with more substance like:
- CCH Pounder in "Orphan"
- Common in "Terminator: Salvation"
- Don Cheadle in "Hotel for Dogs"
- Idris Elba in "The Unborn"
- Boris Kodjoe AND Ving Rhames in "Surrogates"
- Michael Clarke Duncan in "Street Fighter"
- The fat dude from "Couples Retreat"
Okay a few of those atthe end were a joke, but so is this nomination list, son. And since we're allowing voices, how about:
- Keith David from "Coraline" AND "Princess and the Frog"
- The Rock in "Planet 51"
- Samuel L. Jackson in "Inglourious Basterds"
- Mr. T in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"
- The Coonbots from "Transformers 2" (Well, one of them anyway, but since white folks can get NAACP awards, we can award them both. Yay!)
The NAACP Nominees are...
Who's looking at this list and thinking that Sandra Bullock is the problem??!! This whole slate is full of failure. What is it, bootleg DVD viewer's choice?
There were approximately 150 films in mainstream or close to mainstream release and they picked actors out of 14 of them (counting only 1 foriegn film, 1 indie film, and dismissing docos).
If you want to roll with the NAACP's theory of image, how about these notable exceptions:
- Zoe Saldana as Uhura from "Star Trek"
- Jaimie Foxx in "The Soloist" (Really, you nominate him for "Law Abiding Citizen" of this?)
- Half the cast of "Notorious" (I mean really, you don't nominate anybody from Notorious?)
And how do you get such sterling efforts like Lenny Kravitz's 30 seconds in "Precious" (save that you simply want to nominate all things "Precious" to placate Winfrey and Perry)and skip over other performances of equal length with more substance like:
- CCH Pounder in "Orphan"
- Common in "Terminator: Salvation"
- Don Cheadle in "Hotel for Dogs"
- Idris Elba in "The Unborn"
- Boris Kodjoe AND Ving Rhames in "Surrogates"
- Michael Clarke Duncan in "Street Fighter"
- The fat dude from "Couples Retreat"
Okay a few of those atthe end were a joke, but so is this nomination list, son. And since we're allowing voices, how about:
- Keith David from "Coraline" AND "Princess and the Frog"
- The Rock in "Planet 51"
- Samuel L. Jackson in "Inglourious Basterds"
- Mr. T in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"
- The Coonbots from "Transformers 2" (Well, one of them anyway, but since white folks can get NAACP awards, we can award them both. Yay!)