Academy Award nominees
Academy Award nominations were announced on this Thursday, which sparked a twitter outrage with a hash tag #OscarsSoWhite and it did not take long enough before it was US top trending topic.
Apparently it took a few minutes for some to figure that nominees are less diverse after the year 1998 Academy Award nominations.
It raised eyebrows when despite the film “Selma” being nominated the best movie, the actor David Oyelowo and director Ava DuVernay were left out of the nominations.
Academy nominees
All the nominees of acting categories are white and no women were nominated for screen writer or best director. No wonder award audience is calling it the “whitest Oscars”.
Total numbers of voting members of the Academy are 6028 who are selected by the existing member’s recommendation or quality of their work. According to a research 93 percent of the members are white, 76 percent of them male and an average of 63 years of age.
cheryl boone isaacs
Cheryl Boone Isaacs has denied that the Academy has any problem in recognizing the diversity upon asking by the media. She is also the first African-American president of the organization.
The fact could not be ignored that under the reign of Isaacs organization has improved on diversity. Particularly when we saw last year with the film “12 years a slave”, a black filmmaker made history by taking the prestigious award home. But that doesn’t give the pass to organization for this year’s whitewashing.
Academy award has nominated “Selma” for the best movie and despite being declared as the best movie of the year by the critics, the Academy has shut the doors of other categories on the film which raise concerns that something is wrong somewhere in Academy Award Nominations.
Announcement hasn’t just sparked the argument on race, but gender too. All the Academy Award nominations for best pictures have male dominated cast.
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