Whoopi Goldberg bitterly criticized The New York Times on Monday morning’s The View for not mentioning that she had won an Oscar in a Sunday Read the full post.
Feb 14
2011
12:13 PM ET
Whoopi Goldberg criticizes 'New York Times' for not mentioning her Oscar; Hasselbeck cancels subscription in protest. UPDATE: The New York Times responds
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Actually, less than ten years after 2002, having that many black actors and actresses winning might be a fair representation of the population. I would be more concerned about a dearth of other areas not being represented, like hispanics and Asians.
AMEN! Couldn’t have said it better myself. It seems like in America that whenever the word “minority” is mentioned people always associate it with the African-American population, while unfairly ignoring U.S. citizens of Hispanic, Asian, and Middle-Eastern descent, to just name a few.
Are you kidding? About 80 years of 25 nominations which comes to 1,700 actors of which 7 winners were Black. Yikes–representative of the population? Give me a break.
Though I lost the Oscar for Best Song to Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed” from the film “Wonder Boys,” I feel Whoopi’s pain. I, too, was left out of this article. Though most people will remember me from the Oscar telecast as a white swan, I have since morphed into a black swan. So I feel similarly snubbed, though I didn’t actually win. They could have mentioned me as a former thing that hung like a dead thing from a former nominee.
I would have to side with Whoopi on this. It is very poorly written and deserves criticism. It is the NYT and you would think it would be clear.
Poorly worded, yes. Incorrect, nope, they were right.
The one thing I’m getting out of all of these posts about this subject is that the NY Times either should have written it better or not have written it at all.
Actually someone on The View should have a reading comprehension level above fifth grade before blasting them for five minutes on national television. It really wasn’t that hard to figure out.
Nik, what you should be getting out of it is that so many people can’t seem to follow and comprehend written material that has more than 150 characters in it. READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE and this whole thing goes away.
And Craig you make a good point: because clearly NOBODY on that friggin’ show understood (or read) the article! It’s very weird.
I don’t think Whoopi or The View ladies misread the article. I think the point was that because so few African-American actors had been recognized in the the 73 years prior to the 2001 Oscars, would it have killed the NYT to list them? Why list the winners since, but not the previous ones, if the point is the rarity of black actors being honored? I mean, I could understand if it was a piece about the history of women at the Oscars, where they would need to list 80+ different names (or 160+ names if including supporting category). I don’t think Whoopi is saying she was forgotten, just that it was s—-y not to list out all the black winners, since there are so few.
I like Whoppi and I thin her and the whole View cast need to get over themselves. They try to be modest when it comes to the subject of their accomplishments but you can tell they all eat it up. I had to stop watching for a while because all they were doing was mentioning Barbara Walters book.
Actually, after looking at the NYT’s article, I understand where Whoopi is coming from. It is not just the one statement about the last 73 years, the article goes on to praise many black actors who have paved the way for black Oscar winners. Much time is given to Sidney Poitier in the article, there is a photo of Hattie McDaniel and non-Oscar winning black actors like Lena Horn, Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte are mentioned. The omission of Whoopi is a slight.
If it is a slight, perhaps it’s because her acting abilities are not nearly on par with the others mentioned…
Whoopi is a great actor far better thank Halle Berry
I agree and disagree with her. Collectively, the article is written correctly and it isn’t difficult to figure out that the writers were referring to black actors AFTER Denzel and Halle’s win…at the same time it is a little unfortunate that they mentioned other black actors pre Denzel/Halle and failed to include Whoopi. We can argue all day about her acting talent, but the fact that she was the first black actress to win an Oscar since Hattie McDaniel (over 50 years!) is pretty monumental and groundbreaking.
Whoopi Goldberg and the NY Times – neither gets any awards for accuracy. Both spit out untruths by the barrel full.
Lorraine – How could you? Whoopi never did nothing to you. She’s a human being, which I almost am, too. Don’t hate. Maybe you should channel some of your anger at people like Charlie Sheen, who threaten the very fabric (and I’d know about fabric, since I’m made of it) of our society. He is a public menace, doing whatever he wants and getting practically no backlash. Whoopi expresses a deep concern about being snubbed, and you scoff at it! Wake up, Lorraine. The coffee (made of grains of Whoopi epiphany seeds) is ready. Drink some, dollface.
I think being on The View has corroded Whoopie’s brain… if she read the article correctly, she wouldn’t be making a big stink about it because it groups all actors before 2002 as one general mention and then calls out individually those who won AFTER 2002. She won in 1991, so that’s obvious. But, as do all of those hosts on The View, they find anything to bring attention to themselves, even if they’re wrong, because for some reason, they need to be drama queens. I love Whoopie, but she is wrong with this one.
I am soooo sick of the mass media dusting up the race card every time an entertainment or sporting event occurs. I am sure there are still some intelligent minds working in these companies that can come up with better topics than a race bating ploy to stir up a hornets nest. In a true color blind society we should honor and appreciate the body of work and not the hue of ones skin~tone. I am truely disappointed in Whoopie, who appears to have become a bitter person who is always given a pass on some of her racist comments she passes off as humor. Unfortunately, the “VIEW” throws a mindless hissy fit every other week to keep us watching. Sadly, it seems to be working.
Well said.
No. Not well said. And badly written.
Maybe NY should hire journalists who can actually write an article and not a convoluted mess.
On THE VIEW Whoopie says that after Hatti McDaniel it took 70 years until another black performer won the award. McDaniel’s movie was made in 1939. Sidney Poitier received an Oscar in the early ’60s. Goldberg in ’81.
Goldberg said it was 70 years between McDaniel’s award (1939) and her OWN award (in 1991), not 70 years until the next black performer would win. Her math was off – later in the broadcast she corrected herself by noting it was 50 years between Miss McDaniel’s win and her own.
Wow, this is ridiculous. Did she–and Barbara–even read the article?
Forget the minutiae. The general point of the NYT article was the scarcity of African-American actors to have been awarded the Oscar. Would it have added that much extra space to include Whoopi Goldberg…or Lou Gossett, Jr. for that matter? (awarded for performance in An Officer and a Gentleman) I think the omissions becuase of an self-imposed movie timeline actually proves their point in a negative way. Not only do African-Americans have difficulty being recognized for their performances, when they win one, they can’t get the briefest of mentions in an article about that specific subject. Can’t win either way!
Didn’t Cuba Gooding Jr win for Jerry McGuire?
This should really be no big whoop.