Post by mikef6 on Jul 16, 2020 20:40:51 GMT
It's an open secret that Russell Crowe lost out to Denzel Washington in 2002, because of an incident when he threw a phone at a hotel employee.
What is no secret is that after two African-American actors won the top spots that year, Halle Berry was the other, there was an explosion of racially charged accusations that "politics" and "political correctness" were behind the wins. So many people think that people of color - or in some categories, women - could not possibly win legitimately (or get a job or a promotion) without "political" help. You know, if Russell Crowe had won that year over Denzel, I would have said, "He only won because he was white."