#OscarsSoLame: Hollywood Appeals to Middle-American Normies with a Land Acknowledgment

Toronto of the West.

The Academy Awards featured a brief land acknowledgment during the ceremony Sunday night that drew scorn on social media.

Actress Julianne Hough gave recognition to three Native American tribes in a 15-second segment during the 97th annual Oscars ceremony.

"We gather in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam and Chumash peoples, the traditional caretakers of this water and land. We honor and pay our respects to indigenous communities here and around the world," Hough said early in the Hollywood awards show.

The short clip was roasted across social media platform X shortly after it aired.

"Performative nonsense. Give the land back if you're so woke," Sen. Josh Hawley's communications director, Abigail Jackson, wrote.

Washington Examiner contributor Brad Polumbo exclaimed, "i repeat: give it back or shut the f--- up!"

"Do the named indigenous groups ever have to acknowledge who they took the land from?" Libertas Institute President Connor Boyack asked.

"WHHHYYY" former Democratic campaign strategist Evan Barker wrote.

Marine Corps veteran Rick Swift remarked, "Will she be giving up her home?"

This was the most woke slate of nominees in Woke Oscars History. Many Academy members didn't vote at all, because they didn't want to award woke b*llshit and further destroy their industry.

Oscar committee members 'feel this is the end' of the award show as smaller movies were nominated over hit box office films for best picture because of DEI requirements, according to an expert.

The 97th Academy Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday at Hollywood's Dolby Theater, but many viewers and even voters, who determine the nominations, are not too excited.

Emilia Perez, The Brutalist and Anora - are all up for the best picture, alongside Wicked, The Complete Unknown and Dune: Part Two, among others.

But, according to podcaster and author Raymond Arroyo, many in Hollywood are not too happy with the choices - including the 9,945 eligible voting members.

Arroyo also noted 'boxes' that have to be checked in order for films to be nominated for an Oscar.

'One of these Oscar winners pointed out to me, he said, "You know, my film probably wouldn't qualify for an Oscar now because there's so many boxes you have to check," many of them DEI-related,' Arroyo told Fox News Digital.

He also said that The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences 'representation and inclusion standards', first introduced at last year's ceremony, have had an impact as well.

The academy now requires that for films to be considered for best picture, they have to meet two out of four possible categories, which focus on underrepresented groups, including racial and ethnic groups, women, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ+ community.

'So many Oscar voters have told me the Oscars jumped the shark. They feel this is the end of Oscars in some ways,' he explained.

In terms of the requirements films have to have, Arroyo said: 'You have to have so many nontraditional casting here and so many non-white people working on this part of the film.

'So it's an interesting thing that we're seeing that I think is disqualifying to a lot of films that we'll never hear of at the Oscars, because they just couldn't check those boxes.

'They didn't have the creative staff or the casting that could accommodate them,' he continued.

Those who did vote this year have been branded 'out of touch' by those in Hollywood, he added.

'They are not taking into account popular tastes when making these choices,' he said of the nominees.

'And you have a group of people acting in isolation from their audience, which is a huge problem. When you claim to speak as the cultural mouthpiece and center of the country, it's a huge problem. And I think many people in Hollywood are acknowledging it and realize maybe they're out of touch, and maybe the Oscars aren't what they used to be.'

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Arroyo said that voters are now 'reflecting an industry' that's 'been so shattered.'

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He continued: 'And film is no longer the defining touchstone of the culture that it once was. And that's what I got from these voters, an acknowledgment that the ground has shifted, and maybe it's time for [the Oscars] to shift with it.'

The entire entertainment industry, from comic books to books to TV to movies, is losing audience every single year, and their response continues to be: F*** those peasants, we're making "art" to tell those Deplorables we don't want their business.

And the "deplorables" continue abandoning them.

There is a crash coming. Industries die the way people go bankrupt: Slowly at first, and then all at once.

Meanwhile, the sanctimonious ladies of Hollywood showed up with their cans, butts, and hoo-hahs hanging out of their clothing:

posted by Ace at 05:10 PM

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