{"id":19339,"date":"2016-02-28T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=19339"},"modified":"2016-03-06T17:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T07:19:17","slug":"the-88th-academy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=19339","title":{"rendered":"The 88th Academy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T<\/span>he 88th annual Academy Awards are almost upon us!<\/p>\n

Thanks to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign, we have one of the most talked about and controversial award ceremonies in years. \u00a0For the second consecutive year in a row, there was a complete ‘white out’ in the acting categories and boy did it get noticed.<\/p>\n

#OscarsSoWhite lead to some prominent entertainers boycotting the ceremony including Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Spike Lee and Michael Moore. \u00a0Mark Ruffalo also publicly entertained the idea of boycotting the event before eventually committing to go in support of victims of Clergy sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

The debate surrounding the lack of diversity in both Hollywood generally and the Oscars in particular has drawn some disappointing responses from old, white British people. \u00a0Charlotte Rampling famously remarked that the campaign was racist to white people<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Michael Caine called for calm and said that black actors needed to ‘be patient<\/a><\/strong>‘. \u00a0He argued that we shouldn’t simply give\u00a0someone an award for being black or having some sort of awards quota based on ethnicity. \u00a0Which isn’t a very helpful statement to make since no one is asking for that<\/em>. \u00a0Ridley Scott took the defensive and argued that he wouldn’t hire ‘Mohammed so-and-so<\/a><\/strong>‘ or otherwise no one would finance his biblical epics which tank at the box office<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n