Because: it's about White People Behaving Badly.
Any voting body has its politics, and not every film about race relations is a good one. But this is about more than the academy—it’s about Hollywood having a systemic blind spot toward the stories of black people, except in very specific situations. “Selma” is a rare mainstream film that tells the story of the struggle for black civil rights without inserting some kind of white, heroic savior.
And some deconstruction of the Bezos'-spawning Point of Honor.
Is Bezos--his insatiable appetite for expanding one monopoly into n-others--about to compete with Murdoch for opprobrium?
(When I stare into those beady-eyes in his portrait.. don't see much of that 'mirror of the soul' thing, but maybe that's just moi re many a CIEIO.)

Guess brokenness is now our most visible Product. Not finding the Up-side in boring predictability.



PS: Cthulhu.. even Newsmax {ugh} noted that LA Times ripped Oscar-droids for absence of diversity.
"This is the first time since 2011 and only the second time since 1998 that none of the nominees for lead actor, lead actress, supporting actor or supporting actress is a minority," wrote The Los Angeles Times on Thursday.