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Straight Outta Compton

I think it’s important to note that when people choose which actors and properties get nominated, they aren’t looking to what stories are most important, but who deserves what more. The Academy is made up predominantly of white men. 

Whiplash

 The story is one that has been told before, but it has never felt so tense. Teller portrays a single minded musician who wants to “die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about him than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remembered who he was.”