What, ya didn’t know rapper/personality Ed Lover was a closet cinephile-slash-Oscar pundit? To borrow from the man himself: “C’mon, son!” In a searing video rant over at NextMovie, he reacts to this year’s batch of Oscar nominees and glaring snubs (what, no Drive , Harry Potter , or “Dame Julie Dench?”) and pretty much takes the words out of my mouth. “They had the Academy Award nominations the other day at like 7 o’clock in the damn morning… C’mon, son!” Among the salient points from Lover: – The three nominees of color this year (Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, and Demián Bechir) played minorities in servitude of some sort or another. – “Janet McWho?” – What about Ryan Gosling in Drive ? – “So, Academy: You’ve got 9 mothaf***in’ nominees, and you can’t find room for Harry Potter ?!” Props to NextMovie for this bit of Oscar race brilliance. Ed Lover drops his “C’mon Son” knowledge here . Meanwhile, check out S.T. VanAirsdale’s ongoing Oscar musings in Movieline’s Oscar Index . [ NextMovie ]
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‘C’mon Son!’ — Rapper Ed Lover Blasts Oscar Nominations, Drive and Harry Potter Snubs
