List of black male winners:
Sydney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Jaimie Fox, Forest Whitaker: 4 Lead
Louis Gossett Jr., Denzel Washington, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morgan Freeman: 4 Supporting
List of Black female winners:
Halle Berry: 1 Lead
Hattie McDaniel, Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Hudson, Monique, Octavia Spencer, Lupita Njongo: 6 supporting
Roles of the females: bad mother, slave, psychic, failed popstar, poor, maid, slave
That is out of 88 Oscars, so you do the math (i.e., 1% female lead, 7% supporting) out of >13% blacks.
Then I don't know about asians and latinos, I guess their % is even lower?
http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/18/...racist-oscars/
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The nominations for the 88th Annual Academy Awards were released Thursday morning. For the second year in a row, the Academy handed out a whopping total of zero nominations to non-white performers in the four acting categories.
After accusations of racism from the mainstream media and Twitter’s “OscarsSoWhite” hashtag sullied last year’s awards, it’s hard to understand how the eternally progressive Hollywood community behind the Oscars couldn’t correct last year’s error and offer a measly one of those 16 nominations to an actor of color. How did this happen? How did this group of racial-diversity-embracing liberals offer up the exact same offense this year?
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ck-heroes.html
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This week’s announcement of the Oscar nominees was supposed to be an occasion for Hollywood to showcase the best of its 2015 films, actors, and filmmakers—the foreplay for its biggest, gaudiest awards show. Instead, it served as further evidence that Hollywood is still very much invested in highlighting and celebrating only the whitest of its content and creators, with zero out of 20 nominations going to non-white actors. On Oscar night, the only brown people onstage will be presenters, The Weeknd, and host Chris Rock. And for the second year in a row, social media responded with a justified roast of the Academy Awards with the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag. Even Rock couldn’t resist ribbing the Oscars, calling the show the “White BET Awards” in a promo tweet.
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