14% of the US population is black, but 9% of films per year in Hollywood have starring an African American.
exceptions to the rule, as the actors Denzel Washington or Will Smith or directors as Spike Lee (he was given an honorary Oscar in November), this community is underrepresented in the Mecca of cinema.
For the second consecutive year, 100% of the actors, actresses and directors Oscar nominees are white.
Both Smith and Read and Jada Pinkett-Smith announced they would not attend the ceremony. While Dustin Hoffmann , George Clooney , Idris Elba , Mark Ruffalo and Lupita Nyong’o and the organizers of Tribeca Film Festival ( New York) are against what they see as a clear act of racism.
ACADEMY
The director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Hollywood is black: Cheryl Boone Isaacs, only the third woman who comes to this position after the actress Bette Davis in 1941 (president for two months) and screenwriter Fay Kanin, between 1979 and 1983.
The Academy has about 6 000 300 voting members, of which 94 % white, 2% black, 1% from Latin America and the rest is divided in other minorities, according to the American newspaper Los Angeles Times .
The issue of machismo Academy subject for another story, can also be explained: the 77% of its members are men. Is the reason why the beautiful love story between two women Carol Todd Haynes, was not nominated for best film and direction? It is possible.
The average age of the membership is 62 years.
is also notorious the near absence of Ibero-American talent. Yes, Alfonso Cuarón by Gravity and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu by Birdman managed the best direction, but they are still few.
“Hispanics account for 16% of the US population, 3% of applications the Oscar (come on, simplifying Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz ) and 25% of viewers in theaters in the United States, “Gregorio Belinchón highlights the Spanish newspaper El País .
Who will take the reins of the Oscar event, this February 28, will be the comedian African American Chris Rock .
if there OMISSIONS
It is required that the Academy Awards black nominate actors or directors to the Academy Awards. What is sad is that there are productions starring and directed by African Americans and almost were not taken into account.
In 2015 two films by very interesting African Americans on two universal themes were released Straight Outta Compton and Beasts of No Nation
F. Gary Gray. Signs extraordinary Straight Outta Compton , about how musicians gangsta rap and hip hop use these genres to tell the discrimination and poverty that suffer (suffer) the inhabitants of the ghettos in California in the 1980s.
Straight Outta Compton had no aesthetic value? Both the National Board of Review and American Film Institute was selected as one of the 10 best American films of 2015.
Interpreters of this biographical drama offered a valuable job? Both the Actors Guild USA and Critics Choice Awards was nominated as best deal.
Academy Awards gave Straight Outta Compton a nomination in the Best Original Screenplay besides Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, Alan S. Leigh Savidge and Wenkus, all white as snow.
“I’m really disappointed. Is a great film, “said Cheryl Boone Isaacs to the Associated Press.
Isaacs thinks the stir caused does help discuss racial diversity in the largest entertainment the planet, but regretted that the process is too slow.
AGAINST WAR
Cary Joji Fukunaga takes over the direction of Beasts of No Nation , on how adults take children to have participation of armed conflicts, a drama that happens and takes place mainly in Africa, but it is a situation that also occurs in Colombia, Syria, India, Pakistan and the Philippines, among others countries, according to the UNICEF .
According to independent bodies such as Humanium, “during the course of the past 10 years, is estimated More than a million children have died in armed conflicts. “
Academy Awards walked past with Beasts of No Nation . Do you deserve it? No. Both the Golden Globe and Bafta (the UK Oscar) nominated as the great actor Idris Elba .
Actors Guild the cast and nominated as best supporting actor for Elba.
Meanwhile, Abraham Attah received the award for best young emerging actor in the Venice Film Festival and National Board of Review it out as interpreter revelation and Beasts of No Nation was awarded the prize for freedom of expression.
Will Hollywood He fears the fact that Beasts of No Nation was not produced or distributed by a traditional company, but by Netflix
There are two more examples, though less noticeable: Concussion and Creed
Concussion is a drama by Peter Landesman about the football American can contribute to their own athletes die because of post concussion syndrome.
Its star, Will Smith , received nominations as an actor in the Golden Globe and Satellite Awards .
While Sylvester Stallone is the one who has received the most applause for being, for the seventh time, Rocky Balboa , Creed was chosen as one of 10 productions in the National Board of Review .
“Nothing for Will Smith . Nothing to Idris Elba. And the greatest irony: the only actor who was nominated for Creed is blank ( Sylvester Stallone ), “he told the AP Gil Robertson, president of the Critics of Black Film .
recent case
In 2015 was a scandal that the drama about civil rights Selma was not included in asides and address (Ava DuVernay) and actor main (David Oyelowo). He received a nomination for best song for Glory (I won) and Best Picture.
Selma was among the 10 best films of the year for American Film Institute and National Board of Review was awarded the prize for freedom of expression.
SIGNS OF PAST
In the last three decades African Americans “have achieved 10% of the nominations of interpretation, made on films that have starred only 9%. That is the key, in the disproportion between population and films with black actors, “says Gregorio Belinchón The Country.
Between 1928 and 2015 won the Oscar thousand 392 interpreters. Of those, only 11 black actors triumphed
This is Hattie McDaniel (nominated) by Gone with the Wind (1939).; Sidney Poitier (two nominations) by Lilies of (1963) and another career 2002; Lou Gosset (nominated) by Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Denzel Washington (six nominations) by Glory (1989 ) and Training Day (2002); Whoopi Goldberg (two nominations) by Ghost (1990); Cuba Gooding Jr. (nominated) by Jerry Maguire (1996); Halle Berry (nominated) by Monster’s Ball (2001); Jamie Foxx (two nominations) by Ray (2005); Morgan Freeman (five nominations) by Million Dollar Baby (2005); Forest Whitaker (nominated) by The Last King of Scotland (2007); Octavia Spencer (nominated) by The Help (2012) and Lupita Nyong’o (nominated) by 12 Years a Slave (2014).
“Tonight we have killed two birds with one stone,” said Denzel Washington when he received the second Oscar of his career. He was one of the birds and the other was Halle Berry, who for Monster’s Ball became the first African American to get an Oscar as leading actress. The truth is that there were three birds in that edition number 74, because that night 2002 Sidney Poitier gave him an honorary Oscar.
close with statements Spike Lee :” I will turn to the Oscars in February. It is not a lack of respect for my friends, the driver Chris Rock and producer Reggie Hudlin, the president and the Academy Isaacs. But how is it possible that for the second consecutive year all the contenders in the categories of actor and actress are white? It is no coincidence that writing this as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Martin Luther King Day. Dr. King said: ‘There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political nor popular, but one must take it because conscience tells him is right “
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