‘Compton’ star on lack of Oscar diversity

For the second year in a row, fans used the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag to voice their frustrations Thursday morning. “I’m not surprised, you know what I mean?” In fact, in his lengthy post that lambasted the Academy’s oversights, Will Packer also praised the likes of Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan, Will Smith, John Boyega, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tessa Thompson, Audra McDonald, Adepero Oduye, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ryan Coogler.

The Oscar nominees for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress are white all white.

It’s incredible… not only did the movie get overlooked for best pic, only 8 movies were nominated and there could have been 10, but clearly they didn’t think the biopic cut muster.

The critically acclaimed “Straight Outta Compton” was a box-office smash, taking in $134.1 million in its first three weeks alone.

“It’s actually worse than previous year”.

He said it is for precisely for these reasons that he met with Sony Pictures a year ago and why he will continue the fight to bring equality to the film industry. Straight Outta Compton received a token nomination for Best Original Screenplay (all of its four nominated writers were white), and while something like Tangerine was always going to be an Oscar long shot, in the context of this year’s results it starts looking like a film that was destined to be ignored because of larger, institutional issues.

Some were outraged that Sylvester Stallone – widely seen as a sentimental favorite – was nominated for best supporting actor for “Creed” instead of Jordan.

One of the biggest complaints levied against the Academy Awards over the years is the lack of diversity in their nominations.

“I think the Academy has the potential to lose [in the aftermath of #OscarsSoWhite] to be viewed as [a] relic” Robertson said, and he believes that’s unfortunate because the awards have been a reflection of where American is culturally for decades. Yes, they made us laugh. No, not one was nominated for the movie industry’s highest honor. In a promotional Oscar video, Rock pours white talcum powder over his hands and claps them.