#OscarsSoWhite Returns When No Actors of Color Get Acting Nominations

And I’m rooting for Eddie Redmayne over Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor (sorry, Leo).

The four-time Golden Globes host tweeted to his 10.5M followers: ‘Why did the Oscars announce all the white nominees first?’

Such complaints ebbed somewhat in recent years, as movies with largely black casts such as “The Help”, “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” and “12 Years a Slave” won Oscar recognition. Director Ryan Coogler of the successful “Rocky” spinoff “Creed” also failed to make the cut.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who is black and who has pushed for more diversity in the Academy’s ranks since her election in 2013, acknowledged that more action was needed on that front.

Though Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara both made the acting categories for performances in “Carol“, the film and its director Todd Haynes were absent from the best picture and directing races, while “Beasts of No Nation” and “Concussion” were complete shut outs across the board.

The white screenwriters of Straight Outta Compton were nominated for Oscars, but none of the film’s minority actors were. “They’re just not as interested in their/our stories”, Harris said Thursday on Twitter. “You are never going to know what is going to appear on the sheet of paper until you see it – we have got to speed it up”.

“We were from L.A. … but we realized after a tour or two that we didn’t need them”. Yes, Sylvester Stallone received a nomination, and it is well deserved, but the film itself, its leading actor and the filmmaker behind it are considered three snubs this year.

“It’s business as usual at the academy“, said Gil Robertson, president of the African-American Film Critics Association, on Thursday. After the whole debacle with “Selma” and Ava DuVernay, you would have thought some lessons would have been learned.

With more than 6,000 Academy members now eligible to vote, it’s expected the Oscar nominations will deliver a mixed bag of titles and names. It is up for Best Screenplay, but not one single actor of color was nominated in any of the acting categories. “We have nothing to do with hiring”, she said. “It’s a huge victory”. Besides Straight Outta Compton and Creed-which many assumed would get multiple nominations-perhaps the next biggest Oscar snub went to Star Wars: The Force Awakens (co-starring John Boyega and Lupita Nyong’o), whichdidn’t receive a nomination for Best Picture.

The 2016 Academy Awards nominations are being announced this morning, and some noteworthy noms have already begun trickling in.