Why did the woke crowd at the Oscars ignore Blacks?

[WonbyOneanddone]

Notice how the "woke" crowd ignored Black people at the Oscars?. One person of note that was ignored, was Larry Elder for his documentary called "Uncle Tom"

CENSORED: Larry Elder’s “Uncle Tom” film | Sharyl Attkisson


Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder says his 2020 film, "Uncle Tom: An oral history of the American black conservative," has proven popular but is being ignored by critics.

Elder says the film he executive produced is being ignored even though it achieved an International Movie Database (IMDb) viewer rating higher than others on the list.

Larry Elder
In fact, Elder collected the data and found his film, "Uncle Tom," has a higher IMDb rating than any other last 10 winners of the Academy Award award for Best Documentary.

Elder says his $500,000 film has grossed earnings more than seven times that.

The snub cannot be attributed to lack of viewer interest-- if the number of IMDb viewers reviews has any relationship to number of people who have viewed a film or at least to the number of people who view a film and wanted to post a review. By far, the film with the most reader reviews on any of these lists is NetFlix's "Social Dilemma," with 58,000 viewer reviews . But it is an outlier. The next highest number is over 6,000. The lowest is only 56. The average number of viewer reviews, excluding the outlier, is around 1200. "Uncle Tom" has over 4,000 viewer reviews, far more than almost any on these lists.
Larry Elder, Executive Producer of "Uncle Tom"
Elder says, "We think we've met the criteria to submit 'Uncle Tom' to be considered for nomination for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. But despite my film's commercial and overwhelmingly positive critical viewer response, major movie/Hollywood media--'Variety,' 'Hollywood Reporter,' 'Indie Wire,' etc.--are completely ignoring it."

"Uncle Tom" Plot summary:

In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a unique look at being black in America. Featuring media personalities, ministers, civil rights activists, veterans, and a self-employed plumber, the film explores their personal journeys of navigating the world as one of America's most misunderstood political and cultural groups: The American Black Conservative. In this eye-opening film from Director Justin Malone and Executive Producer Larry Elder, Uncle Tom examines self-empowerment, individualism and rejecting the victim narrative. Uncle Tom shows us a different perspective of American History from this often ignored and ridiculed group. Written by Ryder Ansell

Larry proves that black is beautiful!

 

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Why Are Black Conservatives Called Uncle Tom?—Larry Elder Talks George Floyd Protests & New Film - YouTube

 

[GDL]

Because this work is exactly the opposite of what being black means to them. IOW, to them, black, conservative, thinking & reasoning do not go together.

Close to what your rhetorical question means?

 

[Arcangl86]

One, the Academy isn't "woke." There is a reason #OScarsSoWhite is a thing. Two, why does Uncle Tom deserve the Oscar more than the other 238 documentaries that were eligible. I never heard of it, and it seems to have been marketed fairly exclusively to conservatives. The docs that actually got nominated were all highly regarded and broadly released and marketed.

 

[Ringo84]

Please define what you think "woke" is. I'd love to hear it.
Ringo

 

[iluvatar5150]

lol, maybe it's because conservatives tend to be uncritically fawning when media tells them what they want to hear and it's obvious from looking at the distribution of votes that they stuffed the ballot with 10's:

Uncle Tom (2020) - User ratings - IMDb
81.6% of all viewers gave it a 10/10?

lol

For comparison, an 8.7/10 is an absolutely stellar rating, within 0.1 point of classics like Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Empire Strikes Back, The Matrix, and Goodfellas:
IMDb Top Rated Movies

If you drill into the ratings for each of those, none them have the same lopsided distribution as Uncle Tom does. The reviews of all are spread much more evenly between scores of 8, 9, and 10.

And where did they come up with the claim that Uncle Tom has so many user reviews? I'm seeing 5,491 reviews:
Uncle Tom (2020) - IMDb

...whereas, My Octopus Teacher, which won the Oscar for best documentary feature this year, has over 6x as many reviews, with the most common score being an 8/10:
My Octopus Teacher (2020) - IMDb

If conservatives want to be taken seriously in the film industry - or any art industry - then they should start making good content, instead of continuously putting out mediocre content (I have no idea if this particular title is good or bad) that preaches to the choir and then complaining that nobody else is paying them the attention they thing they deserve. If you do good work, people will notice. If you do mediocre work, nobody will care except your existing fanbase who already has a chip on their shoulder.