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Barack and Michelle Obama were humiliated Tuesday morning when their Oscar nominations and documentary came out American Symphony He was ignored.
American Symphony She was excluded from the Oscars
Deadline reported that American Symphony It was widely viewed as the favorite to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, which should come as no surprise given how obsessed the liberal world of Hollywood is with the Obamas.
But when the nominations were announced Tuesday morning, Obama made his decision American Symphony It was nowhere to be found, as the five films nominated instead were produced by National Geographic Bobby Wine: The People's President, Eternal memory, Four girls, To kill the tigerAnd 20 days in Mariupol.
Produced by the Obama family American SymphonyDirected by Matthew Heineman, it tells the story of Grammy Award-winning musician Jon Batiste and his wife Sulekha Jawad. Check out a trailer for the film in the video below.
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Michelle campaigned for the film
Michelle has been campaigning hard for her film, even appearing in Louisiana at a special screening of the film on Netflix last month.
“I'm so happy to be here in Nolens with all of you!” Michelle said at the event. “My husband, he's not here. He says, 'Hey. There's no better place to take this work further than in the city where the music is at the heart of everything, because the music is the heart of this movie.'
“This film is about more than just one man's meteoric rise,” she continued. “It's the story of two souls, John and Sulica, two souls on parallel paths. Along with Sulica's courageous battle with leukemia, we see the full story behind John's Grammy win and Carnegie Hall performance.” [in May 2022]Harmony and discord that lift them up, but tear them apart on their journey. We see how art and music can be a source of healing.
Learn more about this in the video below.
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Michelle doubles down
During her speech, Michelle also described Baptiste as a close personal friend.
John says that music is more than just entertainment to him. It is a spiritual practice. He says he believes a song or album has been created, and he almost has a radar to find the person when they need it most. Isn't that the thing?” she declared. “We also learn that the victories we see publicly aren't the whole story, even with celebrities. Even if the extreme highs and lows don't necessarily balance each other out, at least they can coexist in a way that isn't pretty.
“These are exactly the kind of stories and storytellers that Barack and I hoped to share when we started our production company,” Michelle concluded.
American Symphony It was considered an Oscar front-runner after winning a slew of other awards which include Best Musical Documentary and Best Score at the recent Critics' Choice Documentary Awards as well as Audience Awards at the Montclair Film Festival, Virginia Film Festival and Woodstock Film Festival. And the Philadelphia Film Festival. Unfortunately for the Obamas, the Oscars clearly didn't see their film up to par.
The Obamas are accustomed to Hollywood's liberal elites fawning over them as if they were royalty, so being snubbed by the Oscars came as a huge shock to them. If they really want to make it big in Hollywood, maybe they should focus less on publicly bashing Donald Trump, and a little more on making actually good movies!
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