Oscars 2016: It's time for Hollywood to stop defining great drama as white men battling adversity

[oberliner]

51. It's not anecdotal

It's not based on my own personal experiences - it is an actual fact.

If the premise is:

"It's time for Hollywood to stop defining great drama as white men battling adversity"

And two of the last eight films that have been defined by Hollywood as "great drama" (in that they were selected as the Best Picture by the Academy Awards) were not films about white men battling adversity, then the premise is somewhat flawed.

Even taking just the nominations for this year, most of them are not about white men battling adversity.

Brooklyn is about a woman and her relationships. The Big Short is about the banking scandal. Bridge of Spies is about the US-USSR conflict. Mad Max: Fury Road is about a woman in a dystopian future. Spotlight is about the Catholic priest scandal. Room is about a woman and her child. I would say probably The Revenant and The Martian would be the only ones that are about white men battling adversity.

That's two out of the eight.