All the major awards at the Oscars will be given to Whites only. It is the second year in a row that Blacks and other minority actors are pushed to the side, their hard work not even acknowledge by the…
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The hashtag says it all. For the second year in a row, the Oscars failed to nominate any person of color for any major award. No people of color were nominated for best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, or…
Lupita Nyong’o won the Oscar for best supporting actress on Sunday for her role as the hardworking slave Patsey in drama “12 Years a Slave,” capping a breakout awards season for the Yale-trained Kenyan actress. Nyong’o, 31, won the Oscar…
Have you ever wondered who elects the Oscar winners? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has about 6000 members. 94% of them are white. 77% of them are male. 86% of them are over 50. So don’t think…
AND THE NOMINEES FOR ‘BEST PICTURE’ ARE… Amour Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers Beasts of the Southern Wild Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers…