The Oscar goalposts were moved.
Al Gore may need some ice for that burn after the Academy Awards on Tuesday snubbed his climate-change documentary “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”
The 2017 film failed to pick up an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature, ending a disappointing run for the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth,” which took home 2006 Oscars for best documentary and best song.
The first film did exceptionally well for a documentary, grossing $24 million domestically and igniting the global-warming movement, but the sequel fell flat with moviegoers, earning $3.4 million and a tepid 49 percent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
“Even Hollywood could not give Gore’s climate turkey sequel a mention at the Oscars,” said Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change,” slated for release Feb. 26 by Regnery.
“When a politically correct film like Gore’s is dissed, it means it was below even minimal entertainment standards,” he said in an email. “Gore’s dismal sequel did the impossible, it made Hollywood turn a blind eye to climate change issue!”
The snub capped a somewhat disastrous year for Hollywood films with climate-change themes such as “Downsizing” and “Blade Runner 2049,” which flopped at the box office.
Reviewers were kinder than audiences to “An Inconvenient Sequel,” which scored 79 percent among critics, but many reviews pointed out that the film seemed dated, given that it focused on the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
By the time the sequel was released in July, President Trump had already announced that he planned to pull out of the climate-change accord.
Not helping was a flood of criticism from climate skeptics and scientists, led by the University of Alabama at Huntsville’s Roy Spencer, who blasted the film in a bestselling e-book, “An Inconvenient Deception: How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy.”