This is less surprising than the sun rising in the east. What would be surprising is finding out there's someone in the world that both supports the film and gives a shit what the Oscars think.
Do we know for certain that Walsh/ Daily Zionist submitted the doc for consideration? It has to screen for two weeks in New York and Los Angeles AND be submitted for review to be considered. The Academy only considers films that are properly submitted for consideration. Did they apply?
Yeah, the Borat antics were a little more superficial than I wanted. Most of it was slapstick that quickly got tedious and Walsh is working off the Con Inc idea of race relations so he had nothing significant to say. The Race2Dinner segment where he dropped like 3 plates as a waiter was the hardest to watch.
What is a Woman is a far superior doc for many reasons, one of them being it was so easy to trigger the libs he interviewed. Most of the encounters in Am I Racist were duds with inert braindead libs and a super goofy Walsh falling back on his podcast cadence rather than actually trying to go undercover. The Robyn DiAngelo interview was probably the best one since he succeeded in putting her on the hot seat.
If your only criteria is it's not fiction then Project Veritas / OMG and vlogs are documentaries - but they're not, they're investigative reporting or candid camera.
This is what Walsh did, a collection of Project Veritas videos arranged in a narrative.
You can pretend that's a documentary, but when your definition includes Jersey Shore you've made it so encompassing it's worthless.
Looks like they may have tried to avoid all political docs, even a pro-abortion doc "executive produced" by Hillary & Chelsea Clinton wasn't included per Deadline: https://archive.is/WNgwE
It may come as cold comfort to the Am I Racist? team, but films with an overt take on American politics were all spurned by the doc branch. Those include Zurawaski v Texas, the abortion access documentary executive produced by Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence and others. Similarly left out were Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, Matt Tyrnauer’s film about Democratic political strategist James Carville, and the Michael Douglas-executive produced and narrated film America’s Burning – a hot take on political polarization and dysfunction.
Two films that document the rise of the Christian nationalist movement qualified for Oscar consideration but failed to make the shortlist cut: God & Country, directed by Dan Partland, and Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy, directed by Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones.
Gonzo for Democracy, a film that follows “journalist Lauren Windsor on her quest across America to expose election deniers and impending threats to democracy ahead of the 2024 election” didn’t make the shortlist either.
Somehow without even looking at them I'd guess neither anti-christian documentary is about the actually radical christian nationalist types of the mid 1800s, leading up to the civil war, and instead targets anyone in the modern day that wants a return to functional, moral society.
Now explain why Bowling for Columbine and Sicko was included for consideration...
It's not about politics at all and I guarantee you the ones up for consideration this year ARE political in nature. They just needed a cheap excuse to CYA.
I never said it was an eternal since the beginning time thing, seems to be something they did intentionally this year. Otherwise why would they miss nominating a Hillary Clinton abortion doc?
The Academy only considers films that are properly submitted for consideration. A film has to screen for two weeks in New York and Los Angeles AND be submitted for review to be considered. I doubt The Daily Zionist submitted their doc for consideration.
I mean, while I do support the point Matt Walsh was trying to make, I don't think it was a very good documentary at all. The one about women was much better IMO. Even though the racist libtards made fools of themselves in the film, I feel like Walsh was acting like a jackass throughout the entire film when he really didn't have to because they would have done stupid shit even if he wasn't being a jerk.
This is less surprising than the sun rising in the east. What would be surprising is finding out there's someone in the world that both supports the film and gives a shit what the Oscars think.
Do we know for certain that Walsh/ Daily Zionist submitted the doc for consideration? It has to screen for two weeks in New York and Los Angeles AND be submitted for review to be considered. The Academy only considers films that are properly submitted for consideration. Did they apply?
Yes. Variety even wrote a whole hit piece on Walsh for doing so. Search the forum.
It was released nationwide, including NYC & LA.
I like how Matt Walsh is highly critical of Israel when it's brought up on his show but yall are so concerned with Ben Shapiro that you ignore this.
Cite your sources, even just once. Show me one time he was actually critical. One example.
It shouldn't be awarded in even a neutral Oscars.
It's a relevant and important movie, eye-opening for some, but it's not good and certainly not great.
The entire problem with the Oscars is they would give an oscar to a "He is racist" movie about how Matt Walsh is racist.
Yeah, the Borat antics were a little more superficial than I wanted. Most of it was slapstick that quickly got tedious and Walsh is working off the Con Inc idea of race relations so he had nothing significant to say. The Race2Dinner segment where he dropped like 3 plates as a waiter was the hardest to watch.
What is a Woman is a far superior doc for many reasons, one of them being it was so easy to trigger the libs he interviewed. Most of the encounters in Am I Racist were duds with inert braindead libs and a super goofy Walsh falling back on his podcast cadence rather than actually trying to go undercover. The Robyn DiAngelo interview was probably the best one since he succeeded in putting her on the hot seat.
Ok, what 5 documentaries released in this eligibility year did you think were better?
Any 5 of them? It's not even a documentary, it's a narrative journey.
Departure on adventure, trials, climax, return.
Documentaries don't have these things.
Name any 5 documentaries you feel were better than AIR.
That's what a documentary is. They tell a story, it's just not a fictional one. And this is an undercover look into DEI.
If your only criteria is it's not fiction then Project Veritas / OMG and vlogs are documentaries - but they're not, they're investigative reporting or candid camera.
This is what Walsh did, a collection of Project Veritas videos arranged in a narrative.
You can pretend that's a documentary, but when your definition includes Jersey Shore you've made it so encompassing it's worthless.
Looks like they may have tried to avoid all political docs, even a pro-abortion doc "executive produced" by Hillary & Chelsea Clinton wasn't included per Deadline: https://archive.is/WNgwE
Somehow without even looking at them I'd guess neither anti-christian documentary is about the actually radical christian nationalist types of the mid 1800s, leading up to the civil war, and instead targets anyone in the modern day that wants a return to functional, moral society.
Of course.
Now explain why Bowling for Columbine and Sicko was included for consideration...
It's not about politics at all and I guarantee you the ones up for consideration this year ARE political in nature. They just needed a cheap excuse to CYA.
I never said it was an eternal since the beginning time thing, seems to be something they did intentionally this year. Otherwise why would they miss nominating a Hillary Clinton abortion doc?
The Academy only considers films that are properly submitted for consideration. A film has to screen for two weeks in New York and Los Angeles AND be submitted for review to be considered. I doubt The Daily Zionist submitted their doc for consideration.
They repeatedly said they did.
Yeah, well, I don't watch the The Daily Zionist so I wouldn't know.
I'm just offering clarity so people don't assume that films are picked without being submitted.
Well I am totally shocked, shocked.
Were we expecting a different result?
I mean, while I do support the point Matt Walsh was trying to make, I don't think it was a very good documentary at all. The one about women was much better IMO. Even though the racist libtards made fools of themselves in the film, I feel like Walsh was acting like a jackass throughout the entire film when he really didn't have to because they would have done stupid shit even if he wasn't being a jerk.
Do you really think there were 15 docs that were objectively better though?
Number 1 highest grossing documentary of 2024. $12,311,598 and 1,142,077 tickets.sold