Views You Can Use: An Oscars Whiteout
The 87th annual Academy Awards snubbed diversity in its nominations this year.
A scene from "The Imitation Game ," which picked up eight nominations.
And the Oscar goes to… a white male, probably.
This year’s Academy Awards acting nominations – all 20 of them – went to white actors and actresses, making it the least diverse crop of Oscar nominees in 19 years, reported The Atlantic’s David Sims. He, like many others, pointed to the glaring absence of nominations for “Selma,” a biopic centered on Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous march for civil rights. “We expect the Academy Awards to ignore allkinds of great genre material,” he wrote. “[T]he 2015 list feels all the more galling because David Oyelowo's performance and Ava DuVernay's direction were not just extraordinarily good, but also very Oscar-friendly.”
Reaction on Twitter, as expected, was swift and critical:
No comments:
Post a Comment