Ok 3 years ago I saw the TV-movie that Hally Berry stared as Dorothy Dandridge. Ok There was a part where this woman tells Dorothy that they are not going to give the Oscar to her because she's black. If that was really based on Dorothy Dandridhe life and that event did happend when Dorothy Dandridge was alive, Why did they give the Oscar to Hattie McDaniel 16 years ago? Hattie McDaniel is black.
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It's been a long time since I seen this movie but was she nominated in as the lead actress or a suppoting one? Hattie, I think, won but she was she the lead? That's the only explaination I can think of.
shareHattie McDaniel received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, not Best Actress in a Leading Role. Furthermore, McDaniel received the Oscar for playing a "mammy," a stereotype that depicts black women as overweight, unattractive (according to European standards of beauty) and always ready to please her white master/employer. Americans were obviously comfortable recognizing a black woman for this type of role. They were not, however, ready to celebrate a black woman who was not only talented, but beautiful and glamorous, as well.
shareThey are still not ready to celebrate a Black Woman who is talented, beautiful, glamorous and plays a "type" of character that is not of the norm.
What I mean by norm is of the two roles they usually give Black Actresses...
That of the Mammy and the Whore...
Hattie got the Oscar for playing a Mammy.
Halle got the Oscar for playing a Whore.
Carmen Jones does not fit into either of these categories; her character was more of a FEMME FATALE...Dangerous, Powerful and Exciting.
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Tamandchris,
While I do believe Halle is ecstatic to be the first AA actress to receive an AA, I am sure she felt she deserved it more for IDD. I certainly do.
After I finished watching the movie, I thought Halle should have won for this movie and Denzel for X. But I understand that there may have been pretty great movies that came out those years.
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Halle Berry DID NOT PLAY A WHORE in Monster's Ball!! She has sex with Billy Bob Thornton. Just because a black woman sleeps with a white man doesn't make her a prostitute. That is so insulting. And her performance goes far beyond racial barriers and the infamous tryst they had. She has lost her husband and child, and is suffering. Thornton loses his son to a suicide and has to deal with his racist father. You are portraying the same stereotypes you're complaining about. Did you actually WATCH Monster's Ball? Or did you just YouTube the scene where they make love on her couch??
shareIf you want to understand why, I think you have to stop seeing race issues in a linear format. That is, today's step one did not always mean tomorrow's step two.
For example- blacks and whites served together in the same military units during the Revolutionary War. But by the the time the Civil War began, blacks were mostly barred from the military, then eventually accepted in seperate units. What's more, using the example of combat service, every time the US went to war, blacks were always met with the question of "Will the Negro Fight?" because the powers that be doubted whether or not black men had the capabilities to prove effective in battle. It's too bad they didn't know the history, because the black military service record is outstanding.
I hope this makes sense to you. Basically, racism is like alcoholism. Just because someone with a drinking problem is sober today or has been sober all week does not mean that they will stay sober next week.
And if it still doesn't make sense, it's because racism doesn't make any sense.
More about Hattie McDaniel and GWTW and her Oscar for her performance in GWTW.
When GWTW premiered in Atlanta in 1939, Hattie McDaniel did not accompany the cast primarily because the movie's producers knew she couldn't stay in the same hotel as the other GWTW actors.
At the Oscars which were held as a dinner theater format, Hattie McDaniel and her husband did not sit with the "GWTW crowd" at a table near the front. They were seated at a table at the back near the entrance to the kitchen. Hattie had to have walked quite some distance to the stage to receive her Oscar (in tears.)
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Nobody is answering your question. What the character says to Dandridge is, "They already gave us one." Meaning, Hattie McDaniel is the token winner, the exception that proves the rule. I thought it was a great line. But it flew by kinda fast.
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