The brutal frontier saga “The Revenant” landed a leading 12 nominations for the 88th annual Oscars, but which actors, films and directors were snubbed when the nods were announced Thursday morning?
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Berloff added that there was a key positive note for women in the nominations list: four women nominated for their screenplays this year.
Among the actors who had been expected to be nominated were Idris Elba, who earned rave reviews for his role as an African warlord in “Beasts of No Nation”, Will Smith for the sports drama “Concussion”, and Michael B. Jordan for the “Rocky” sequel “Creed”. Last year, for example, groups of black American women in Greek organizations were so angered by the stereotypical, offensive portrayals in VH1’s “Sorority Sisters”, that they were able to get major advertisers to stop supporting the show, and ultimately got it pulled from its prime-time slot entirely.
“What is important is that this entire conversation of diversity is here and we are talking about it”, Isaacs said. “And maybe this year [in 2015] is more just about let’s kick it in even more”.
“Welcome to Me” is an uneven film but is elevated by Wiig’s ability to take her character to both the darkest of places and the most awkward.
Viola Davis winning the Best Actress Emmy. Davis addressed diversity in the entertainment business during her Emmys acceptance speech.
“It is nice to be recognized, but N.W.A was anti-establishment, so we’re used to people trying to dismiss what we gotta say”, he explained.
“It seems that networks are finally making serious strides towards more diverse representations”, GLAAD said at the time. (He’ll take the #1 at the box office instead.) Besides, how could he be surprised? I’m glad McKay had the good taste to cast her. And I hope this is a sign of more work to come. 7.
He said: “I’m not p****d”.
There is backlash tonight toward Oscar nominations, which are being blasted for their lack of diversity.
It speaks, of course, to how deeply white the actual Academy is itself: 94% of the people who even pick the nominees are white, and a lot of them are men.
What can be done to combat this problem?
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A few of the nominations I was happy to see: Bryan Cranston getting his first for playing a blacklisted screenwriter in Trumbo. If he had been nominated as best actor, he would have been the youngest actor ever to appear in the category – tying Jackie Cooper (1931’s “Skippy”) – at age 9. And The Big Short makes her a sympathetic representative of the big firms who trusted that the housing market would boom forever and then tried to get out when they were wrong.
