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Mary J. Blige Disappointed After Oscar Snub

Posted on January 25th, 2012
by
Karen


 

The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul Mary J. Blige is not happy with the academy who she believes snubbed her for an Oscar nomination.

In 2011, the singer/songwriter penned an original song for the movie The Help titled “The Living Proof” that she obviously believed was Oscar worthy.

On Monday the Oscar nominations were announced and her track wasn’t mentioned in the ‘Best Original Song’ category, a group with five slots for nominees.

Instead of five songs however only two were nominated and a snubbed Mary tweeted that she thought it was intentional.

“I’m so thankful for true fans like you all. It saddens me & feels like the Academy is being mean. 2 only nominate 2 of the 5 slots is….”

She also added a link to a HitFix.com article that criticized the academy for insulting contemporary songwriters by only offering two nominations.

“Hey Fam pls read this. So unfair. I still don’t see how they justify the action. “

A portion of the article reads,

“We can’t for the life of us figure out how five songs from this year’s eligible batch didn’t make the cut. We’d like to see a little transparency from the music branch and have its members explain exactly what they’re looking for since it seems incredulous that they couldn’t come up with more than two tunes.”

The Help was nominated for ‘Best Picture’ and actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer were nominated for ‘Best Actress’ and ‘Best Supporting Actress.’

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