SpaceX CEO Elon Musk snubbed the Oscars in a sequence of posts.

The most important leisure night time of the year- the 96th Academy Awards passed off on March 11, 2024. The star-studded occasion noticed a number of the largest names within the movie trade come collectively to have fun cinema. Oppenheimer triumphed profitable seven of the 13 Oscars it was nominated for. Amid this, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk snubbed the Oscars in a sequence of remarks over the weekend. In one among his posts on X (previously Twitter), he in contrast receiving an Oscar to profitable “the woke contest.”

“Profitable an Oscar now simply means you received the woke contest,” he mentioned on the microblogging platform. “Guess I used to be unsuitable,” he wrote in a subsequent submit. 

Profitable an Oscar now simply means you received the woke contest

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 10, 2024

In one other submit, he mentioned, “When an award is diluted, everybody is aware of, together with those that acquired it, and it now not instructions respect.”

In keeping with the Cambridge Dictionary, the time period “woke” means “conscious, particularly of social issues resembling racism and inequality.” Nonetheless, Mr Musk has beforehand said that “wokeness” seeks to make “comedy unlawful.”

Since being shared, the submit has amassed 27 million views and over two lakh likes on the platform.

Vivek Ramaswamy commented on the submit and mentioned, “American Historical past X is an all-time traditional that would not even earn a nomination if it had been made at present.”

A person mentioned, “Appears like somebody did not get invited to the cool events this yr.”

“Not defending Hollywood, simply shaming anybody who feels threatened by ‘wokeness’.” added an individual.

“Most watched documentary of the yr and nil likelihood they’d ever think about a nomination for our documentary as a result of we aren’t woke,” one person said.

A person wrote, “You should purchase the Oscars and make them horrible in all probability cheaper than twitter.”

“Oppenheimer is woke? Dude, what are you on about,” wrote an individual.

An X person added, “You suppose if Oppenheimer wins it is as a result of it is woke?”

“Sorry, disagree right here. Whereas there’s a stigma of wokeness and liberalism, lots of people work on a film. Rejoice them and their efforts,” mentioned a person.