Whereas the remainder of us spent our Sunday evening watching motion pictures like Oppenheimer and Poor Issues sweep on the 2024 Oscars, others — like Elon Musk — had been busy complaining in regards to the annual award present.
Shortly after the printed started, Musk fired up his social media platform X (previously often called Twitter) and dragged the ceremony’s politics. He wrote, “Successful an Oscar now simply means you received the woke contest.”
The previous chairman of Tesla beforehand responded to a put up claiming the range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) requirements that should be met to be thought of for an Oscar make the award present “much less about advantage and good motion pictures and extra about checking off demographic containers.”
Musk merely commented, “Yeah,” beneath the put up, earlier than later writing, “When an award is diluted, everybody is aware of, together with those that obtained it, and it now not instructions respect.”
He appeared to have a change of tune, nevertheless, when one X person identified the winners of the night, together with Christopher Nolan for Greatest Director, Emma Stone for Greatest Actress, Cillian Murphy for Greatest Actor and Robert Downey Jr. for Greatest Supporting Actor — all of whom are white.
“Properly, that was shocking,” Musk wrote, later including that he was “unsuitable” beneath his unique put up in regards to the Oscars being a “woke contest.”
In the meantime, Trendy Household government producer Danny Zuker joined the lots in roasting Musk on his personal platform.
“Feels like somebody didn’t get invited to the cool events this 12 months,” Zuker wrote, whereas another person added, “Good grief you’re annoying. Get a canine or one thing.”
A 3rd individual stated, “2016 known as and is in search of its tweets,” earlier than one other joked, “You’re simply upset you’ll by no means win one.”
Musk wasn’t the one one to whine in regards to the “wokeness” of the Academy Awards. In the course of the ceremony, former President Donald Trump took pictures at host Jimmy Kimmel and the “dangerous politically right present,” which he known as “disjointed, boring and really unfair” on Reality Social.
Sadly for Trump, Kimmel had the final snicker when he used his additional time within the broadcast to share the presidential candidate’s “evaluation.”
“Thanks, President Trump. Thanks for watching,” he stated. “I’m stunned you’re nonetheless up — isn’t it previous your jail time?”
Kimmel sarcastically added, “He’s targeted on the necessary stuff for positive,” earlier than tossing to Al Pacino for the Greatest Image class.