The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh Loses It Over the Oscars’ Snub of His ‘Am I Racist’ Documentary: ‘They Hate Us’ For ‘Our Success’
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Hard-right provocateur Matt Walsh bashed the Academy Awards for snubbing his controversial Am I Racist? documentary that mocks diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
The satirical Daily Wire film is directed by Justin Folk and features Walsh going undercover at various DEI dinners and conferences pretending to be a progressive activist. The film brought in more than $12 million at the box office since its release and followed Walsh’s 2020 film What Is a Woman? — which is widely viewed as an anti-trans film.
“’Am I Racist?’ did not make the top 15 even though it is the highest-grossing doc of the decade and easily the most talked about, most watched, and most influential documentary of this year,” Walsh, who describes himself as a “theocratic fascist,” told his 3.4 million followers on X. “This is the outcome I expected, of course, but it doesn’t make it any less of a farce.”
The Academy Awards announced the shortlist for documentaries. These are their top 15 films in the genre that will be whittled down to 5 nominees. “Am I Racist?” did not make the top 15 even though it is the highest grossing doc of the decade and easily the most talked about, most…
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 17, 2024
“If a conservative can make a documentary that crushes every other film in its genre that year and beats every film in its genre in the past 6 or 7 years, and yet still not even crack the top 15, that means that conservatives are simply excluded from having their work recognized. Again, this is not a surprise. But that’s what it means,” Walsh added.
Am I Racist? is one of the highlight films for the DailyWire+ which was founded by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing. The film is promoted on the site with a blurb that reads, “Follow one man’s hilarious journey as he goes deep undercover to infiltrate and expose the weird world of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Laugh, gasp, and cringe at his real-life misadventures.” Whether or not the Academy would view the film as a satirical comedy or a documentary is unclear.
Walsh concluded, “One thing I’ve learned after getting into filmmaking is that the Left truly believes it owns the art of filmmaking. Any conservative who makes a film is an intruder, a sinister usurper showing up in a place where he doesn’t belong. The truth is that the success of my films — and they are both easily the most watched and influential documentaries of the decade — actually makes it LESS likely that they’ll be recognized by critics or awards. Our success is an affront to them. They hate us for it.”
