Один анонимный киноакадемик (female, PR branch) выложил свою анкету и высказался об "Оскаре", критиках "Оскара" и некоторых картинах в частности. В мощной и эмоциональной речи (даже по тексту это заметно) стало очевидно то, почему "Сельму" прокатили по полной. Киноакадемики не любят, когда им "навязывают" необходимость отдать голос. Они не хотят голосовать за "black movie'' только потому, что это кино про черных. Это не расизм, заметим. Это раздражение от внешней оценки происходящего: если ты не голосуешь за "Сельму", тебя назовут расистом.

Вот спич в оригинале про "Сельму":

On "Selma": First, let me say that I'm tired of all of this talk about "snubs" — I thought for every one of [the snubs] there was a justifiable reason. What no one wants to say out loud is that Selma is a well-crafted movie, but there's no art to it. If the movie had been directed by a 60-year-old white male, I don't think that people would have been carrying on about it to the level that they were. And as far as the accusations about the Academy being racist? Yes, most members are white males, but they are not the cast of 'Deliverance' — they had to get into the Academy to begin with, so they're not cretinous, snaggletoothed hillbillies. When a movie about black people is good, members vote for it. But if the movie isn't that good, am I supposed to vote for it just because it has black people in it? I've got to tell you, having the cast show up in T-shirts saying "I can't breathe" — I thought that stuff was offensive. Did they want to be known for making the best movie of the year or for stirring up shit?