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Oscars 2016: The nominees are blindingly white. Again. [View all]
Source: Vox
Oscars 2016: The nominees are blindingly white. Again.
The Academy Awards' diversity problem, explained.
Updated by Todd VanDerWerff on January 14, 2016, 10:17 a.m. ET
For the second year in a row, all 20 Oscar acting nominees are white. And whereas the 2015 Oscar nominations included Selma, a Martin Luther King Jr. docudrama, among the Best Picture nominees, the 2016 lineup doesn't feature a single story about a person of color. (The directing list includes Latino Alejandro G. Iñárritu.)
It's vaguely remarkable that this has happened two years in a row. In 2014, 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar for Best Picture, and the acting categories featured several nominees of color, including eventual Best Supporting Actress winner Lupita Nyong'o (who starred in 12 Years a Slave). And before last year, the Oscars hadn't seen a completely white acting nominee list since 1997. But now it's happened two years in a row.
The overall landscape is damning: In recent years, films about people of color that catch the Oscars' attention are the exception, not the rule. That's happening, paradoxically, as the Academy itself is making baby steps toward diversifying its membership.
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The Academy Awards' diversity problem, explained.
Updated by Todd VanDerWerff on January 14, 2016, 10:17 a.m. ET
For the second year in a row, all 20 Oscar acting nominees are white. And whereas the 2015 Oscar nominations included Selma, a Martin Luther King Jr. docudrama, among the Best Picture nominees, the 2016 lineup doesn't feature a single story about a person of color. (The directing list includes Latino Alejandro G. Iñárritu.)
It's vaguely remarkable that this has happened two years in a row. In 2014, 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar for Best Picture, and the acting categories featured several nominees of color, including eventual Best Supporting Actress winner Lupita Nyong'o (who starred in 12 Years a Slave). And before last year, the Oscars hadn't seen a completely white acting nominee list since 1997. But now it's happened two years in a row.
The overall landscape is damning: In recent years, films about people of color that catch the Oscars' attention are the exception, not the rule. That's happening, paradoxically, as the Academy itself is making baby steps toward diversifying its membership.
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Read more: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10767662/oscar-nominations-2016-so-white
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