Academy Awards boss is disappointed in lack of diversity among nominees

Maybe some of these names were total long-shots; maybe some of them were just a few votes shy of a nomination. “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity”, she said at the time. This year’s list of Oscar nominees won out over popular, well-reviewed performances in the movies “Creed” and “Straight Outta Compton”.

The film “Carol” got nominations for both Best Actress, Cate Blanchett, and Best Supporting Actress, Rooney Mara. Although the film got six nominations, Spielberg and the protagonist Tom Hanks didn’t get any.

The Oscars will be held February 28 at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.

The controversial four-time Golden Globes host is the latest celebrity to express outrage at the fact that all 20 slots in the best and supporting actor and actress categories went to white actors. “I am so grateful to the Academy for their recognition of this film”. Lead “Creed” actor Michael B. Jordan was left out.

April Reign, an editor who started the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag in 2015 after critically acclaimed “Selma” was snubbed at the Oscar nominations announcement.

Maybe you don’t care who gets nominated for the Academy Awards. “White people love feeling bad about how they treated black people”, he said.

As expected, Leonardo DiCaprio nabbed a best actor nomination for “The Revenant”. “It’s a challenge in a group dominated by older white men to make it a contender without buzz among their peers”. Its lead, Chiwetel Ejiofor, was also up for best actor.

On Thursday, when the Academy Awards nominations were announced, the loudest applause was reserved for an actor who might have been dismissed as pure action-hero beefcake for much of his career.

“I don’t think there’s any pattern at all”, she said, noting that good work was perennially snubbed at the Oscars.

“I really was disappointed”, Isaacs told the Associated Press when asked about “Compton”, which received only a screenplay nomination (for, some noted on Twitter, its white screenwriters, not its black cast or director.) “Fabulous movie, fabulous movie”.

While television may look more like the world, or at least modern America, for now, cinema, at least as its represented at the Academy Awards, remains decidedly abnormal.

So was this year’s shutout just an unlucky bounce?

“You are never going to know what is going to appear on the sheet of paper until you see it”, she added.

Which she followed with: Theres even an additional wrinkle to the controversy this year.