Why are we at the stage where there has to be a female nominated director each year just for the sake of it? Voters should be choosing the 5 directors that displayed the best direction in each year in their films, irrespective of race and gender. The fact that less female directors have traditionally been hired by studios (same for PoC directors) is a problem with the industry in general, not with the Academy.
You’ve referred to whitewashing. Are you implying that voters are deliberately not nominating PoC performances due to their race, and are deliberately nominating white performers instead? That seems to be the insinuation and there appears to be zero evidence behind it. Could it just be that voters thought the non-PoC performers were better this year? It’s a competitive year and not everybody can get in. Awkwafina, Nyongo and Erivo were all on the cusp of a nomination in their category, Erivo got in, the other two didn’t make it. Simple as that.
The Oscars are not some sort of affirmative action initiative where PoC performances should be nominated just for the sake of it. Just last year two of the four acting winners were non-white (three if you count Malek as being an Egyptian American). This year the major acting contenders happen to be non PoC performers. That doesn’t mean the Academy are racist or are “whitewashing”.
People need to think critically about what they are saying before posting soundbytes online about “Oscars so white” and “whitewashing”. It’s tiring to read and insulting to the performers who were nominated this year.
Some of us have a reason to be upset because that’s the majority of who’s nominated
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