CONGRATS OCTAVIA!

This is Octavia's first Academy Award win and nomination.  And she is the 5th black actress to win for Best Actress In A Supporting Role." I thought the post was about her Oscar nomination + win?? Natasha, your reporting skills are subpar and you're still worthless. While you're erasing my comments, your post is still incorrect. Congrats Octavia.

Oh my God...WHO CARES.......If she was that white man or not AND, Go get you a damn man, worried about the wrong things!!!! UGHHHHH...That movie was awesome, It wouldn't have matter if she won the oscar for being a school teacher, you people would still be mad...GET A LIFE!!!!!

Will not watch oscars until blacks are nomimated w/ better roles. I will not take it out on Viola and Octavia they played the roles they were given. In 2012 is it really necessary to have roles playing maids and slaves so much? . I find it ironic that they want to do movies showing blacks in subservient type of roles when we have a Black Man (Obama) playing the highest role as our President. It's a slap in the face to me and I will not support any part of this movie. Why now all of a sudden Hollywood wants to do more slave movies like Quinton Tarentino wants to do a slave love story. I am so glad Will Smith turned it down. Now another movie w/ Chiwetel Ejiofor will play a slave in a soon to be released movie. Something about a white man being best friends w/ a free slave or something. MY POINT IS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I am tired of these subservient type of roles. Here's an Idea why not do a NEW BIG BUDGET MOVIE about how THE JEWS were slaves to the Egyptians. Yes it's ok to show other races as subservient people but the Jews hate to show themselves as the slaves they were to the Egyptians! Octavia winning for this role puts us right back to the time Hatti Mcdonald won for Gone in the Wind. How far have we really come? When the Jews that run Hollywood have their own agenda. Their agenda is to keep blacks low roles like maids, slaves, pimps, cross dressers and whores! Did someone say Octavia was 39? Please say it's not so. I could have swore she was in her late 40's or early 50's

I was proud for her, but disappointed that she didn't have a speech prepared... we have to plan to WIN everytime, she won just by being nominated....

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Hi 'pot calling the kettle black.' "Go back to Africa", really? And where would you go if you were told to leave this country? Do you even know where you're really from? Ignorant fool!

congrats .....

• All lead actress winners since 2002 have been white. • No winner in any acting category during the last 10 years has been Latino, Asian American or Native American. • Oscar winners and nominees of color make fewer movies per year after their nominations than their white peers do. • Oscar winners and nominees of color are more likely than their white peers to work in television, which is considered lower-status work. • Oscar winners and nominees of color are less likely than their white peers to receive subsequent nominations. It's questionable whether television still is regarded as "lower-status work" than film, given the critical praise that's been heaped on ambitious, high-quality TV series such as "The Wire," "Treme" and "The Sopranos." More complex is the question of why Oscar distribution tends to favor white over nonwhite actors. As a recent L.A. Times story documented, the membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is indeed overwhelmingly white (94%) and male (77%). But the poor showing of nonwhite actors during Oscar season also simply reflects the under-representation of nonwhite actors in Hollywood films as a whole. As L.A.Times reporter Lorenza Munoz wrote in a prescient March 2002 story about Washington and Berry's Oscar triumph, when individual nonwhite actors win Oscars they're unlikely to open doors for other nonwhites. That's because today's bottom-line-driven Hollywood studio industry is increasingly reliant on the international market, "where having minorities and women in starring roles is considered a detriment, particularly in action blockbusters," Munoz wrote. Munoz's story went on to quote James Ulmer, author of "James Ulmer's Hollywood Hot List," which tracks actors' global marketability. "None of this is going to change the fact that you cannot package or sell [a movie] to the world market today with a black woman," Ulmer said of Berry and Washington's achievement. "I don't see [the Oscar win] as changing an industry where white male actors drive the train of the international marketplace." Those comments seem just as applicable, or more, today. But, as the UCLA study's authors also observe, the issue isn't just the infrequency of nonwhite actors earning Oscar nominations and wins. It's also the limited types of roles for which nonwhite actors do get nominated for Oscars. For example, they write, the Oscars still tend to reward black females not for playing women like Berry's tough, complex, erotically charged character in "Monster's Ball," but for roles that conform to old Hollywood racial stereotypes of black women "who are sassy, full-figured, maternal, or non-sexual." "In short," the report asserts, "Hollywood has required black female Oscar nominees and winners to resemble Hattie McDaniel more than Halle Berry."

Well deserved, congratulations Octavia!

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My grandmother was a maid on my mother side, and my other grandmother was a live in babysitter. I am honored that they lived their lives , because I'm here today; however with that being said, knowing that we were always more than domestics I can't take joy in this award. This accomplishment is for the actress and she alone. I can't be happy that the Academy Awards has been in existence for 80 years, and 60 years ago Hatti McDonald won Supporting Actress for playing Mame, and now in 2012 a black actress has won for playing anoter maid. Hollywood has not changed in almost a century. While blacks are happy that a sista won, I don't claim an accomplishment because it has a black face. It would be more compelling if a black woman won , if she was portraying the roles that white women win for. The problem with black folks is that we always accept scraps, like we are a hungry dog, or that we are an unwanted baby, hoping for the little bit of attention they get from neglectful parents. But, we are so eager for acceptance that anything is better than nothing. I'm not hating on Octavia's win, congratulations for being good enough to win, but for me, I can't be happy for the role, no matter how people try to spin it, that character was Mammy. I guess, as long as we play the role , Hollywood see us in, we will get Oscars. Tyler Perry can get funding for his movie parts not because the script is great, and he has a huge church black following, but because he plays drag, and acts like a stereotype. We can sugarcoat this all day, but Hollywood continues to let us and the world know how they see us.

Congratulations to a beautiful woman and a beautiful spirit!

love her! im so so proud! but i had to say this: wooow 39? I thought she was at least 50!

Congratulations Octavia!! Love Love Love Her!!

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Congrats to Octavia....it's definitely well deserved...