Mixing politics and art usually has some real life consequences here in Ghana. It shouldn’t, but we don’t really live in the civilised world.
Most Hollywood celebrities are liberal but some prominent conservative ones, such as Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger, are not ‘shunned’ because of their political views.
The brouhaha over the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards is not dying down anytime soon- all the way down till the night of the awards.
The release of the nominations list was notable for the lack of nominations for actors of colour, despite strong showings from movies such as ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and ‘Concussion’ in the year under review. Compton’s only nominations fell to the non-black members of the crew.
