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This is pretty much Pop, a culture podcast, One Quarter Black Yet No Awards.

In light of the upcoming Oscars and the just past Black History Month,

we're talking about Oscar. We're talking about Oscar-relevant black films and those that should

have been in that category. Oh my gosh. This is Mark Linson-Myer, and my ears are burning from

hearing so many cinematic racial slurs over the past few days. Wow. This is Al Baker,

and I've got that Friday feeling.

I'm Sarah Lindbrecht, and I'm also the Michelle Pfeiffer of pretty much Pops' dangerous minds.

This is Lawrence Ware, and I'm still recovering from Mark's legitimately hilarious intro.

Yeah, this was your idea, Lawrence.

Pitch it.

I am the only black person on the podcast. I don't know. People know they can't see us. I think that Black History Month is really important. I think it's something that we should always celebrate anytime we give a chance, anything that I'm involved with, I'm going to do something having to do with Black History Month. And since the Oscars are right around the corner, I believe that are two, three weeks away from when we are recording this, I think it's a good time to talk about the fact that black films, question mark. We'll talk about what films are actually black. I have a whole criteria for that and how they oftentimes are not recognized. And this will be very apropos because

Sinners is up for a record number 16 awards. And I think that it's probably going to be

shut out in all the major ones. But we'll talk about that when we get there. Yeah, of course,

we had our Sinners episode already. So, I mean, we can consider that in light of the rest of

these. But, you know, the things that were on our list to potentially watch or rewatch or whatever were Moonlight, right?

2016 Best Pictures, 12 years of slave, 2013 best picture, Judas and the Black Messiah nominated 2020 Best Picture.

Spike Lee, I'm sure we'll do an actual Spike Lee episode at some point.

I didn't actually watch any Spike Lee for this time, but Black Klansman is a recent one up there that he actually... You didn't? So you didn't re-watch Malcolm X? That's the biggest snub of all time. I just didn't have, I didn't have time. I, however, I did at your request watch Boys Into Hood, which was nominated and you thought was one that should have won, and if it

wasn't for this Oscar-So-white thing, I highly disagree, but we'll get into that. Yeah.

Really? Okay. Maybe it just doesn't age that well. But then there's also things that you were talking

about as they have black subject matter, but they're made by white people. They're critically

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