Oscars 2016: The nominees are blindingly white. Again.

[Eugene]

Source: Vox

Oscars 2016: The nominees are blindingly white. Again.

The Academy Awards' diversity problem, explained.
Updated by Todd VanDerWerff on January 14, 2016, 10:17 a.m. ET

For the second year in a row, all 20 Oscar acting nominees are white. And whereas the 2015 Oscar nominations included Selma, a Martin Luther King Jr. docudrama, among the Best Picture nominees, the 2016 lineup doesn't feature a single story about a person of color. (The directing list includes Latino Alejandro G. Iñárritu.)

It's vaguely remarkable that this has happened two years in a row. In 2014, 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar for Best Picture, and the acting categories featured several nominees of color, including eventual Best Supporting Actress winner Lupita Nyong'o (who starred in 12 Years a Slave). And before last year, the Oscars hadn't seen a completely white acting nominee list since 1997. But now it's happened two years in a row.

The overall landscape is damning: In recent years, films about people of color that catch the Oscars' attention are the exception, not the rule. That's happening, paradoxically, as the Academy itself is making baby steps toward diversifying its membership.

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[KamaAina]

1. Movies 2016: The quality roles are blindingly white. Again.

[ReasonableToo]

2. I don't watch many movies in the theatre.

I just did a quick perusal of 2015 drama posters. Not many minorities in the posters. This issue starts with writing and casting. And then, yes, the nomination selection process deserves scrutiny too.

[B Calm]

3. I never thought much about the Oscars. Too me it's just patting each other on the back.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. An ill-considered complaint considering the slate of Democratic party presidential nominees.

[LanternWaste]

7. Three is barely a "slate." It is however, an invalid sample for any statistical analysis.

Three is barely a "slate." It is however, an invalid sample for any statistical analysis.

[ericson00]

5. please stop!

not everything is racism! Racism is endemic on our society no doubt, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Rodney King being some of the examples. Or Obama being "born in Kenya." But there comes a point where there is racism or sometimes, there just isn't aside from forced spin.

Whining about the Oscars is another example of what's helping Trump; it makes progressives look increasingly like the GOP looked in the early '90s with the Pat Buchanan culture wars. What resulted after was 25 years of Democratic presidential dominance. If Trump gets elected, the reverse just might happen. There are 12 million people who do the jobs Americans won't at risk if that occurs. Please stop making everything "racism."

[zipplewrath]

6. I don't think you read the article

The article isn't about racism, it's about racial bias in the movie industry, which is as undeniable as the sexism.