He is in his 60s. He is gonna be in the Magnificent Seven remake though, that's a star studded cast too.
93% of the Academy is white, 100% of those nominated to the most prestigious awards are white. Two years in a row. If you simply put the names of those worthy of consideration in a hat and pulled 20 at random, 3 or 4 would be black. Maybe even more. Perfect example of privilege. http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity...ment-after-smith-lee-announce-boycott-w161985 Academy President Releases Statement About Oscars Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, released a statement on Tuesday, January 19, a day after Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee announced their decision to boycott the 2016 Oscars due to the lack of diversity on this year's nominees list. "I’d like to acknowledge the wonderful work of this year’s nominees," Isaacs shared in her statement to Us Weekly. "While we celebrate their extraordinary achievements, I am both heartbroken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion. This is a difficult but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes. The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership. In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond."
Holy shit. He's still awesome. Idris Elba can make every movie from now until 2035 and I'll be ok with that.
It's entirely possible that Straight Outta Compton wasn't nominated for Best Picture because the voters just didn't think it was good enough.
Are you guys using online review scoring to talk about best picture nominations? A 95 percent on Rotten Tomatoes doesn't mean everyone said it's 95 out of 100 as far as movies go. If you want to rent a horror movie and it gets 60 percent there is a good chance it's a decent movie. Imdb doesn't even disclose how they get their numbers so they are worthless.
IMDB is votes, plain and simple. LOTS of votes. The top 10 movies as rated by IMDb voters: 1. Shawshank Redemption 2. Godfather 3. Godfather Part II 4. Dark Knight 5. Pulp Fiction 6. Schindler's List 7. 12 Angry men 8: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 9. The Good, the bad, and the Ugly 10. Fight Club Shawshank Redemption got 9.3/10 from 1,594,513 users. The movie was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Writing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Editing, and Best Music. Straight Outta Compton has won awards outside the Academy. Best Movie at AFI, for example. It is critically acclaimed. Maybe I'm picking on DiCaprio's movie too much. Michael Fassbender was nominated for Best Actor for his role in the Steve Jobs movie. The latest Mad Max movie nominated for Best Picture. SMH.
I've seen and enjoyed both movies. Straight Out Of Compton was a very good movie but it wasn't one of the year's best.
