The only true snub was Lego Movie, widely considered the best animated movie of the year. Neither Selma or Interstellar was considered shoe-in to win

I was just kidding.  I am pretty black, though.  There are race issues.  I've seen them first hand but I never use that excuse.  I'm no victim.

No. I just think its absurd to think everything is about racism. All that will lead to is paranoia in life if you get worried about things that more than likely isnt that way. I try to be as reational as possible about things, which is why if I become inquisitive as to why thigs happen I try to run all of the angles and understand the situations. Also another reason why I try to read up as much about psychology and sociology as possible.

Makes sense.

1st one was great, 2nd one was okay, not touching the third one. 

The general population goes to the movies for different reasons than critics. It is fairly difficult to make a movie that is both critically acclaimed and financially successful with happy customers. 

Exactly, which brings to me to my first point. Its not easy to explain why the sales didnt match the critical reception. :)

I know, totally wierd.

I suppose I have to throw screenplay into the mix too, that way it's 100%. And Selma has not been nominated for Screenplay either. In fact when you look through the A-list category nominations you have to scratch your head as to how Selma managed to get onto the best picture list. It has 2 nominations: 1 for song and the other for best picture. When was the last time a movie was nominated for best picture but was not even nominated for any other award that would actually contribute to making a film the best picture of the year?

I can't be bothered doing the research, but this seems pretty unprecedented. 

Knowing that Selma has no other meaningful nominations the likelihood of it winning is extremely low.

159 reviews, 99% positive, average review score of 8.7/10. It is rare for the collective bunch of reviewers to be that universal in praise.

It's the "probable cause" phrase that made me ask, not the race thing. Though I should have asked if you were a lawyer, or a judge as well. It's as much a lawyery phrase as a cop phrase. I doubt we have a single judge as a member of this forum, so you being a judge is about 0.0000001% probable.

I'm sticking with my original comment lol

Also Selma is going to be okay at the box office it already made a little over $39 million and it only had a production budget of $20 million so it should eventually make at least a small profit at the box office.