Patriotic movies get snubbed by Hollywood’s awards shows

Is "Unbroken,'' the much-anticipated film directed by Angelina Jolie, too unapologetically patriotic for Hollywood's anti-American sensibilities?

And does the film "American Sniper,'' directed by Clint Eastwood, delve too deeply into the love of God and country to please the overlords running a movie industry that has grown painfully decadent and politically correct?

Yes! And yes!

Hollywood had an opportunity this year to honor two films that portray values dear to most American hearts and minds. But the nominations announced last week for the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Golden Globes laid bare the prejudice that rules a bizarro world in which nudity and rampant sexuality are promoted at the expense of monogamy and flag-waving.

The first sign that Hollywood had dipped ever lower into the sinkhole of stupidity came when "Unbroken'' was all but snubbed by the SAG-AFTRA actors union, which will give out the SAG Awards to favored "male actors'' and "female actors'' on Jan. 25, 2015. Based on the best-selling 2010 book by Laura Hillenbrand, "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption,'' tells the real-life tale of American hero Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who, as an Army lieutenant in World War II, was shot down over the Pacific Ocean and survived in a life raft for 47 days, only to be captured and tortured in a Japanese prison-of-war camp. He died this year at age 97.

Rejected for a nod in the category of outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role was the movie's star, 24-year-old Jack O'Connell (pictured with Jolie). The film did get one nomination for outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble. No offense to talented stuntmen and women, but what were award-givers smoking?

Jolie's direction, the movie as a whole and O'Connell's acting were also shut out of consideration for the Golden Globes in January. The awards are considered bellwethers for the Oscars. I guess Jolie. 39, won't need to retrieve her leg-baring gown from the dry cleaner any time soon.

Jolie's major headlines last week were not about her cinematic labor of love, but about a vile hacked e-mail. In it, producer Scott Rudin, 56, ranted to Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal, also 56, that the "Maleficent'' star was a "minimally talented spoiled brat'' from "Crazyland.''

Also making news was a call by some Japanese nationalists to boycott "Unbroken'' or ban the work of Jolie from Japanese movie theaters, because her new film could portray this country's World War II enemies in a bad light. The movie is set to open in the United States on Christmas Day, but as yet has no scheduled release date in Japan.

Helmed by Eastwood, 84, "American Sniper'' is about former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who had the largest number of confirmed kills in history, 160, with dozens more suspected. Kyle was shot and killed last year at age 38, along with another man, cops say, by an ex-Marine.

But can Hollywood embrace a movie that lovingly depicts a marksman responsible for the deaths of Iraqis? "Sniper" was passed over for SAG and Globe nominations.

Publicist and author Michael Levne, 60, who has represented 58 Academy Award winners, bemoaned the "disconnect'' that exists between Tinseltown and Main Street. "Hollywood is one of the least patriotic places in America,'' he told me.

Hollywood went into a downward spiral when Ben Affleck was denied a Best Director Oscar nomination for 2012's "Argo,'' a masterful film set during the Iranian hostage crisis that paints CIA agents as heroic figures and Muslims as villains.

"Argo,'' won an Oscar for Best Picture awarded by a schizo Academy. Since then, Affleck, 42, now has steered clear of patriotic projects, starring in the misogynistic movie thriller "Gone Girl'' and getting set to play Batman on the big screen. He won't make the "Argo'' mistake again. Nor should anyone who wants to make it in Hollywood.

How sad.

Creep-pee turn in the Durst sage

Creepy Robert Durst, 71, has resented his younger brother, Douglas, 70, ever since their late father, Seymour, passed over Robert as chairman of his family's multibillion-dollar New York City-based real-estate company and installed Douglas as head of The Durst Organization in 1992.

Robert Durst, who is the only suspect in his first wife's 1982 disappearance and was questioned in a 2000 murder but never charged in either case, was acquitted by a Manhattan judge last week of trespassing at two relatives' homes, including Douglas'.

Robert was accused of violating orders of protections taken out by Douglas and a nephew requiring him to stay away from them.

Eleven other family members have filed protection orders. Robert also was tried, but acquitted, in the 2001 murder of his roommate Morris Black, 71, in Galveston, Texas, where Robert lived dressed as a woman.

He claimed he killed the man accidentally in a struggle over a gun, then cut up his body and dumped it in Galveston Bay.

This week, he goes on trial in Texas on a misdemeanor criminal-mischief charge after he allegedly urinated on candy inside a CVS.

I predict that he'll walk.

My, aren't we fence-y! Blas walls out NYC

Mayor de Blasio had a new, taller fence erected around his taxpayer-funded home, historic Gracie Mansion, to prevent the riffraff from peeking at him. An official from the Parks Department said the fence was installed for security reasons. But a source told The Post that Hizzoner demanded that the fence, which increases the zone of privacy from about 6 feet to around 10 feet, be built to prevent folks in adjacent Carl Schurz Park from shouting greetings such as "Hi Mr. Mayor'' at de Blasio when he hangs out on his porch or in his yard.

And City Hall officials admitted that the mayor failed to secure the necessary city permits for the thing!

De Blasio won office by presenting himself as a man of the people. But the people had best steer clear of the mayor's borrowed abode on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side.

Cuomo adviser comes with bad rap

Gov. Cuomo has chosen rap mogul — and former crack dealer — Jay Z to serve as an unofficial adviser. Cuomo met with Jay Z (real name Sean Carter) at the governor's Midtown office to discuss criminal-justice reforms in the wake of grand juries' refusals to indict cops in the killings of unarmed men on Staten Island and in Missouri. In addition to his past career as a drug slinger, Jay served three years' probation after pleading guilty to a charge of misdemeanor assault for stabbing a record producer and hitting him over the head with a bottle in a Manhattan night club in 1999. I don't want to know what the two men discussed.

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