If you value diversity, you have to appreciate the effort this year. The 2019 Oscars managed to avoid most of the problems people usually complain about. Given how many awards they present, a long show is unavoidable, but the pace this year seemed positively snappy, with more than one winner getting played off the stage […]
For something about the brokenness of these women reminded me of my own mother, enabled me to understand her not merely for the harm she enacted but in the light of her own suffering and her pain. The Oscars were a coup for bad mothers, and I have to say I am delighted. The Best […]
Diversity was a hot-button issue at the Oscars last year, and we still have a long way to go. But I believe that this year holds a lot of promise for women—particularly in the LGBT community—who yearn for more dimensional characters onscreen. Late February/early March holds a tradition for my best friend and me. On […]
Movies and their marketing offspring are products that we consume, and sexism and racism are cheap and profitable components of those products. Last week, two Hollywood women talked about Hollywood’s endemic sexism. Melissa McCarthy called out a New York Observer film critic for calling her a “hideous,” “tractor-sized” “female hippo” two years ago while reviewing the film […]
In an Oscars ceremony marked by questions of representation and cultural politics (host Neil Patrick Harris quipped early on that this was “A night to honor Hollywood’s best and whitest”), there were no shortage of social issues at the forefront of this year’s Oscars ceremony. Long before the ceremony unfolded, actors and activists took to […]
