1) The key difference is the selection process in sport is transparent with the draft systems. How some of the hollywood films get approved is a real mystery. Most of it is crap too, everyone knows hollywood is a closed system that one needs to somehow get inside. this is what spike lee basically said about these "green light meetings" in that clip someone just posted.
2) A better comparison would be to simply look at another award system like the emmys or grammys and compare and see what you find.
As for the market driven economy stuff that's a fairy tale too.
1) Just sounds too conspiratorial for me to buy in. Can't possibly sit through a Spike Lee interview, but wouldn't common sense tell us a 'green lit' film is either one with a statistically high potential return (for major studios); or, one a more artistically inclined (often smaller/independent) studio just digs and wants to see made? Too simple?
2) Awards are subjective. Alleging deliberate, racially-based exclusion carries the same weight as "too many incarcerated blacks, justice system must be racist." Correlation does not imply causation, a fallacy so embraced here, it gets tiresome having to constantly remind those who employ it.
Other than too many nominated whites and too few blacks, what else are we working with here? It proves NOTHING. There are probably at least 50 white actors feeling equally snubbed this year, but we won't hear from them. A dozen white directors, too, probably, feeling their films got snubbed. No outspoken protests, no boycotts, no mention at all, yet I'll bet they feel every bit as deserving as those who got nominated.
So sick of every mf'n thing being about race. More played out than shitty comic book/superhero movies.
