Mad Max: Fury Road’s film editor, Margaret Sixel, is director George Miller’s wife. When she asked her husband why he thought she should do it as she had never edited an action film before, Miller replied, “Because if a guy did it, it would look like every other action movie” (x).

CONGRATULATIONS MARGARET SIXEL!

"Let me be perfectly clear: I could care less about which film wins as long as the voting process is fair."

This is fucking important.

This right here.

This is why “___ should have won!” “____ was robbed!”  “Fuck Disney!” does nothing IMHO.

Someone is ALWAYS going to disagree with the winner, even in a FAIR SYSTEM.

Saying “___ should have won!” treats each of these cases like an isolated incident. It ignores the real problem. And it makes us look like we are mad because our favorite movie lost, when we need to show them that we’re pissed because the voting process is unfair. 

That’s what we need to focus on. That’s what needs to be called out. The process. The process is wrong. Just handing a different movie the Oscar without addressing the real problem won’t fix anything. We need to speak out against the cause.  I can sit here and say “HTTYD should have won” or “Kung Fu Panda” should have won all I want, even if I believe it. But at the end of the day, a fair selection process is way more important than my opinion who should have won.

I want a fair process. Animation deserves a fair process. 

Its now about who “Should have won”.

Its about how they should have chosen the winner.

75 years ago, on February 29, 1940, actress Hattie McDaniel made history by becoming the first African American, male or female, to win an Oscar. She won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in the movie Gone With the Wind.

The following day, Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons wrote of McDaniel’s win:
Hattie McDaniel earned that gold Oscar by her fine performance of ‘Mammy’ in Gone with the Wind. If you had seen her face when she walked up to the platform and took the gold trophy, you would have had the choke in your voice that all of us had when Hattie, hair trimmed with gardenias, face alight, and dress up to the queen’s taste, accepted the honor in one of the finest speeches ever given on the Academy floor.

She couldn’t sit with her costars & the hotel was segregated so she almost wasn’t allowed in the building at all. She would play a maid in 74 of her 90+ roles & her Oscar was deemed worthless before being stolen. She saw herself as a race woman, doing her best to advance her people & was disrespected heavily for it. We owe her a lot, including never forgetting the conditions she lived * worked through to make her mark in history.

"Wings" (1927)

The first picture to win the Academy Award for Outstanding Picture as it was called then. There were no special effects. Cameras were mounted on the planes. That meant the actors had to fly their own airplanes. Buddy Rogers not only learned to fly but logged over 100 hours in the air during filming.

Wings (1927)