Oscars whitewash: ‘Hideously racist’ awards snub NWA biopic

Soon, the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite revived itself on Twitter, with many quickly dubbing this year the “sequel” to last year’s heavily white telecast.

Golden Globe victor Brie Larson and SAG Award nominee Rachel McAdams were nominated for their first Oscars in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories respectively, while two-time Oscar victor Jennifer Lawrence collected her fourth nomination at just 25 years old.

“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”. However, another year has passed and Blacks have been shut out, again, at the Oscars.

Cinematography and directing, as fields, are male-dominated, which means we’re left once again with the “is it the chicken or the egg” question: is it because women aren’t given the chance that there are no nominations, or does a lack of nominations fail to inspire faith in women artists and keep them from those jobs?

Ice Cube is one of the producers of last year’s N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton, and his son – O’Shea Jackson Jr. – stars in it, playing his dad.

“Tangerine“, an independent film whose transgender actresses of color, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor, are nominated for Independent Spirit Awards, also failed to secure any nominations.

In 1956, Variety ran a series of articles asking why there aren’t better roles for black actors. Michael B. Jordan, the titular character in Creed, wasn’t nominated and neither was the movie’s director, Ryan Coogler. The Revenant director, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who was also nominated and won a year ago for Birdman, is of Mexican descent.

The announcement of the nominees comes after a year in which actress Viola Davis became the first actress of color to win an Emmy for best actress in a drama.

Megan: On that subject: While it’s not a sexy category traditionally, I think Original Screenplay is one of the most exciting this year.

Meanwhile, Netflix has better odds than ever at winning an Oscar in the documentary category, though it will be hard to beat the much-awarded “The Look of Silence” and the critically and commercially successful “Amy“.

But Oscar nominations aren’t chosen by 12 angry men in a secret room checking names off an imaginary list.

When movies driven by black actors and directors were nominated this time around, it was for the work of their white colleagues.

Will Smith and Idris Elba, both thought to be strong contenders for their roles in Concussion and Beasts of No Nation, respectively, were snubbed.

The 2016 Oscar nominations have been announced and – surprise, surprise – one omission is glaringly obvious.