WASHINGTON BEACON
#OscarsSoWhite, in Part Because #EverythingsAProblem
by Sonny Bunch
January 20, 2016

For the second year in a row, no actors of color have been nominated for an Academy Award. As a result of this travesty, the Academy Awards—an organization that has awarded the following men [Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro G. Inarritu, and Ang Lee] the last three Oscars for best directing, by the way—has again been slammed with the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag. People are very upset! There are so many strong movies with heavily black* casts, films like Chi-Raq and Beasts of No Nation. Why weren’t they rewarded? Of course, we haven’t considered the fact that many of these films were also deemed extremely problematic, both before and after their release. Can you solve one problem (lack of Oscar diversity) by appealing to problematic art? READ MORE