‘Oscars So White’ 2016: Lack Of Diversity In Actor, Actress Nominations Trends

The director of the critically-acclaimed Straight Outta Compton, a biopic about the rap group N.W.A, was also snubbed. (Also Read: Oscar Nominations: Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Revenant Leads With 12 Nods) Mr Stallone in the movie reprises his iconic role of boxer Rocky Balboa, for which he was nominated but failed to win an Oscar when the original Rocky came out in 1976. Yet his name wasn’t called in the adapted category. “If you don’t expand the diversity of that membership – and by extension producers and directors who more fairly reflect society – you get this grotesque imbalance”, he told AFP.

Apart from these three films, others contending for the Best Picture award are “Spotlight”, “The Big Short”, “Brooklyn”, “Room” and “Bridge of Spies” – a Steven Spielberg and Reliance Entertainment Film production. That might be seen as a victory for Snoke and his evil minions. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is nominated for Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, and that classic John Williams score.

“Spotlight” support. It’s hard to suss out just how voters felt about the actors in “Spotlight”. Social media is trending with Tweets like this one from “The Wrap:” “14 award-worthy performances by non-white actors the academy overlooked #OscarsSoWhite”.

“For the two black movies that made over $100 million at the box office, touched a nerve and are artistically fresh, only white people were nominated”. Keaton has had a great mid-career resurgence, but the Motion Picture Academy isn’t quite willing to embrace it. Mexican-born director Alejandro G. Iñárritu wound up with a Best Director nomination, but in the 2015 acting categories-all four of ’em, a total of 20 slots-there wasn’t a single person of color. Redmayne stars in “The Danish Girl, a movie that hasn’t garnered much attention outside of his costar Alicia Vikander”.

Other surprise omissions from the list include Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina), Will Smith (Concussion), Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton) and Benicio Del Toro (Sicario).

The Revenant’s Tom Hardy will compete against Mark Rylance, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Bale and Sylvester Stallone for best supporting actor.

In his typically blunt style, the British star tweeted: “Why did the Oscars announce all the white nominees first?”

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.

Critics found it to be a noticeable snub for the lead actor and director of the film “Creed”, Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler, respectively, who are both African-American. How did Ridley miss the cut?