Addressing The Oscars’ Lack Of Diversity

“Straight Outta Compton was a great film; I think it just lost some Academy members who are older”, she continues.

When the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were announced, the outcry came out nearly immediately.

The sting of rejection for Straight Outta Compton still hurts.

On the other hand, Idris Elba was considered an early Best Supporting Actor frontrunner for his dark turn in “Beasts of No Nation”.

The Hustle Gang boss spoke on some of his upcoming movie roles, but before that, he spoke on “Straight Outta Compton”‘s Oscar nod- while it may not be in the category they deserve, T.I. has only positive things to say about it.

Still, the rapper couldn’t ignore that the Academy has a serious issue on its hands. “This is a hard but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes”. “The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership”.

“Then we finally got a chance to give this gift to an audience and they accepted it with open arms”.

Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Johnson in Creed. “We need to do more, and better and more quickly”, Boone Isaacs said. “It’s a problem that needs to be solved”. This information surfacing just days before the country’s biggest celebration of diversity, equality and inspiration on Martin Luther King Jr.

“It’s going to take time, but that said, my hope is that based on the success of ‘Compton, ‘ studios and financiers will start to see that these movies can make a ton of money and can be super successful”, Berloff told MTV News following her Oscar nomination.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

Lee, who directed Chi-Raq and was awarded an honorary Oscar in November, said nothing will change until Hollywood’s executive suites look much different.

Last year, the Oscars received backlash from viewers after they did the same and presented a nomination list void of people of colour, which led to the trending of the hashtag #OscarsSowhite.

Among those who have, the sentiment is by no means monolithic: Janice Hubert, best known for playing Aunt Viv in the 1990s TV show “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, posted a video criticizing Pinkett-Smith for asking working black actors to jeopardize their careers by participating in the boycott. “We don’t do movies for the industry; we do movies for the fans, for the people”, he explained.

Chris Rock, who will host the Oscars on February 28, dryly referred to the ceremony as the “White BET Awards” on Twitter.

“This isn’t unprecedented for the academy”. Diversity in the modern world is more than just skin color – it’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.