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Does Oprah Winfrey really deserve an honorary Oscar®?

The Academy Awards® is under fire after selecting Oprah to receive an Oscar® for her humanitarian work.

The headline on Nikki Finke's influential website deadline.com reads, "Oprah Oscar®? Film Academy's Lousy Choice."

Finke calls the award an "ego feed" and says, "Winfrey's career and contributions to the movie business are at best spotty and superficial, especially considering that 99% of her career has been in television."

Matt Belloni, from The Hollywood Reporter, told INSIDE EDITION, "All of the controversy is surrounding the fact that she's not necessarily a film person. But there are people who have gotten the award who have not been nominated for an Oscar®, and she's been nominated for an Oscar®."

A Los Angeles Times columnist calls the Oprah pick "a boneheaded move." Another says, "Winfrey has done good work in the world, but that's not enough to merit an Oscar®."

Now the President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Tom Sherak, is firing back at critics, saying, "Oprah has given and given and given. She's a member of the Academy. She was nominated for an Academy Award® and she has produced movies. This is not about personality."

Past winners of the coveted award include Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, and the last recipient, Jerry Lewis.

well, she deserved it for The Color Purple, didn't she?

suga10 said:

http://insideedition.com/news/6683/backlash-surfaces-over-oprah-getting-humanitarian-oscar174;.aspx

Does Oprah Winfrey really deserve an honorary Oscar®?

The Academy Awards® is under fire after selecting Oprah to receive an Oscar® for her humanitarian work.

The headline on Nikki Finke's influential website deadline.com reads, "Oprah Oscar®? Film Academy's Lousy Choice."

Finke calls the award an "ego feed" and says, "Winfrey's career and contributions to the movie business are at best spotty and superficial, especially considering that 99% of her career has been in television."

Matt Belloni, from The Hollywood Reporter, told INSIDE EDITION, "All of the controversy is surrounding the fact that she's not necessarily a film person. But there are people who have gotten the award who have not been nominated for an Oscar®, and she's been nominated for an Oscar®."

A Los Angeles Times columnist calls the Oprah pick "a boneheaded move." Another says, "Winfrey has done good work in the world, but that's not enough to merit an Oscar®."

Now the President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Tom Sherak, is firing back at critics, saying, "Oprah has given and given and given. She's a member of the Academy. She was nominated for an Academy Award® and she has produced movies. This is not about personality."

Past winners of the coveted award include Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, and the last recipient, Jerry Lewis.

If they can have a little gold man then why can't she??

to be honest, I could give two shits about this...

maybe if she had done more movies

Yeah...

But its a humanitarian award?

Why should there be backlash?

Plus I thought everyone worshipped her,

She's a member of the acadamy and a previous nominee. Why not? Like her or not shes done a helluva lot in the humanitarian front.

Plus have you seen who they've been handing out Oscars to in the last decade.

How can you get a humanitarian OSCAR? Oscars are for acting and all things 'film'. That doesn't even make sense.

Why the hell not? Oprah haters are just jealous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hersholt_Humanitarian_Award

Its the only way my gal Rosalind got one after being stepped over for Auntie Mame.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Why the hell not? Oprah haters are just jealous.

Because it doesn't make sense. It makes about as much sense as the Nobel Peace Prize people giving away MTV Movie Awards.

And not to disappoint you, but sometimes people just think others suck and it has nothing to do with wanting what they have.

armpit said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Why the hell not? Oprah haters are just jealous.

Because it doesn't make sense. It makes about as much sense as the Nobel Peace Prize people giving away MTV Movie Awards.

And not to disappoint you, but sometimes people just think others suck and it has nothing to do with wanting what they have.

the hatred of Oprah is irrational. She deserves everything she has, perios. Well maybe no Stedman but still

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

armpit said:

Because it doesn't make sense. It makes about as much sense as the Nobel Peace Prize people giving away MTV Movie Awards.

And not to disappoint you, but sometimes people just think others suck and it has nothing to do with wanting what they have.

the hatred of Oprah is irrational. She deserves everything she has, perios. Well maybe no Stedman but still

She deserves it for what she did to Michael Jackson - pretty much publically shitting on him and kicking him when he was down.

And other reasons I don't feel like going into. If you adore her, fine, rock on, but that doesn't mean everyone else is obligated to, and that they don't out of 'jealousy'.

armpit said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

the hatred of Oprah is irrational. She deserves everything she has, perios. Well maybe no Stedman but still

She deserves it for what she did to Michael Jackson - pretty much publically shitting on him and kicking him when he was down.

And other reasons I don't feel like going into. If you adore her, fine, rock on, but that doesn't mean everyone else is obligated to, and that they don't out of 'jealousy'.

How did she shit on MJ?

I really don't get people who hate on Oprah. I really don't.

imago said:

I really don't get people who hate on Oprah. I really don't.

Me either

i think she could even get one for the things she's stuck under ppls chairs

Humanitarian Award, huh?

Yeah, why not?

Let's be humanitarian and give her that Award

I wonder if half the Oscar committee got free cars from her.

Timmy84 said:

I wonder if half the Oscar committee got free cars from her.

CHIC0 said:

Timmy84 said:

I wonder if half the Oscar committee got free cars from her.

I can see her getting an humanitarian award. I don't see it being an Oscar. Her body of work in film in front of and behind the camera isn't extensive enough.

Not hating, just saying.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Why the hell not? Oprah haters are just jealous.

Hate her all you want. She's done amazing things with her life and she continues to do amazing things for other people's lives. I have the highest respect for Op and I refuse to get into it with all the haters.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Why the hell not? Oprah haters are just jealous.

Hate her all you want. She's done amazing things with her life and she continues to do amazing things for other people's lives. I have the highest respect for Op and I refuse to get into it with all the haters.

If it's the Humanitarian award what's the big fucking deal? It's not for her body of work as an actor but for work as a humanitarian who happens to be adjacent to the movie industry. Many of the people who receive the Jean Hersholt award are NOT actors (Quincy Jones), most are actually producers and directors, and many are people most of us have never heard of (Walter Mirisch or M.J. Frankovich anyone?) but they were great humanitarians so again, what's the big deal???

And for the record I can't stand O, but I give her credit for her many humanitarian efforts and apparently so does the Academy.

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SCNDLS said:

If it's the Humanitarian award what's the big fucking deal? It's not for her body of work as an actor but for work as a humanitarian who happens to be adjacent to the movie industry. Many of the people who receive the Jean Hersholt award are NOT actors (Quincy Jones), most are actually producers and directors, and many are people most of us have never heard of (Walter Mirisch or M.J. Frankovich anyone?) but they were great humanitarians so again, what's the big deal???

And for the record I can't stand O, but I give her credit for her many humanitarian efforts and apparently so does the Academy.

[Edited 8/8/11 10:55am]

lol I wonder if people upset over this think that Oprah didn't have enough Oscar credentials to get it whatever that means.

Timmy84 said:

SCNDLS said:

If it's the Humanitarian award what's the big fucking deal? It's not for her body of work as an actor but for work as a humanitarian who happens to be adjacent to the movie industry. Many of the people who receive the Jean Hersholt award are NOT actors (Quincy Jones), most are actually producers and directors, and many are people most of us have never heard of (Walter Mirisch or M.J. Frankovich anyone?) but they were great humanitarians so again, what's the big deal???

And for the record I can't stand O, but I give her credit for her many humanitarian efforts and apparently so does the Academy.

[Edited 8/8/11 10:55am]

lol I wonder if people upset over this think that Oprah didn't have enough Oscar credentials to get it whatever that means.

It seems that way but if it's NOT for acting and many non-actors have received it, why can't she? This ain't a new award they created just for her or some shit.

SCNDLS said:

Timmy84 said:

lol I wonder if people upset over this think that Oprah didn't have enough Oscar credentials to get it whatever that means.

It seems that way but if it's NOT for acting and many non-actors have received it, why can't she? This ain't a new award they created just for her or some shit.

Yes, it's probably the award that most people don't pay attention to (including me)

But you are right, and we might think Oprah has only done one movie, but she produced Beloved, Precious, and acted in Bee Movie, Charlottes Web, Princess and the Frog, and others

SCNDLS said:

Timmy84 said:

lol I wonder if people upset over this think that Oprah didn't have enough Oscar credentials to get it whatever that means.

It seems that way but if it's NOT for acting and many non-actors have received it, why can't she? This ain't a new award they created just for her or some shit.

Right.

NDRU said:

SCNDLS said:

It seems that way but if it's NOT for acting and many non-actors have received it, why can't she? This ain't a new award they created just for her or some shit.

Yes, it's probably the award that most people don't pay attention to (including me)

But you are right, and we might think Oprah has only done one movie, but she produced Beloved, Precious, and acted in Bee Movie, Charlottes Web, Princess and the Frog, and others

Yep I actually did like her role in Beloved... and let's not forget The Woman of Brewster Place, probably the best movie I've seen her do IMHO.

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