Academy President Releases Statement on Lack of Diverse Nominees

I agree with these concerns but it doesn’t detract from my desire to have Leonardo DiCaprio finally take home the gold. He is so talented and looooong overdue.

He doesn’t deserve an Oscar for his crappy acting in this film. It doesn’t even deserve to be nominated. He deserved the Oscar for many other roles though.

Leave it to Al Sharpton to make this an issue. Please, maybe there are onyl white nomaniies because they gave the best performence? Come on! Most of the black actors this year did not perform any outstanding work like Leo DiCaprio, Bree Larson or the other nomannies.
If anyone was robbed of an nomiation its Johnny Depp. You don’t hear him complaing and throwing tantrums because he isn’t nomianted. Sick of the PC crap.

Yet Jennifer Lawrence is nominated every year… Who the fuck is she sleeping with?

Learn to spell.

Harvey Weinstein

There goes the MYTH of liberal Hollywood. The Oscars is the symptom not the cause.

Creed’s team or Compton’s team also

Not just black actors, people are lamenting the shut out of people of color as a whole. But since you waited a whole 22 minutes to be shut down, I’ll happily oblige… Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina), Michael B. Jordan (Creed) , Rinko Kikuchi (Kimiko), Benicio Del Toro (Sicario), Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton – worth noting the only nominations for this film were the writers… who are white), and Ryan Coogler (director of Creed). All noted people of color within an industry that has years and years of shutting out those who are not white. Have you even watched the films? Probably not if you have to ask that question. You might wanna pretend there isn’t a problem but there is and your denial of that doesn’t make it any less true. It just means you’d rather ignore reality and remain willfully ignorant. Stay simple, kid.

Thank you.

Diversity doesn’t equate to only black people. There were minimal PoC nominated in general. And please open a book. In the WORLD, white people are the minority.

I agree with you. The fact is that none of the black actors this year gave really good work compared to something like Leonardo DiCpario or Brie Larson have done.
And also many people suspect that Alejandro will win Best Director again. So giving Best Director to a Mexican is racist? Okay.

I remember last year people demanded they change the committee of the Academy and that was done. Most people do not realize that the Oscars are a peer reviewed and voting process committee. People like Spielberg and Eastwood , Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, are all apart of the many folks who vote. So are they racist if they happen to like a performance played by a white better then a black? These PC idiots make no sense.

I used to think the Oscars were magical and a celebration of THE BEST in movies. But I’m wrong! It’s all politics. Especially with Jennifer Lawrence nominated again. She’s not Meryl Streep she’ll never be Meryl Streep, but because someone said it once, people think she needs to be nominated every year. She didn’t deserve one in American Hustle and she definitely doesn’t deserve one for Joy. She’s good don’t get me wrong but she doesn’t deserve a nomination for every single movie.

She is the most over-rated actress who ever lived. She’s not bad — she’s even quite good — but she’s nothing special. She doesn’t even do accents! It’s basically herself over and over.

lol, nailed it.

Why don’t you educate yourself idiot? Go cry racism like Zendaya and Al Sharpton then!

There are many talented people in the business but the Oscars are about the best of the best, not about color of someone’s skin..the fact that you see things this way tells me how you don’t know the industry at all. Although performances where good this year from many other actors I feel like the one’s nominated truly deserve it. Best of the Best, the one’s you have mentioned are on a level below the nominees. And honestly the fact that you are so incredibly rude & has to resort to derogatory terms.. and the only problem I see is the constant bashing of an industry that clearly can’t be bullied in any way into existence.

And she doesn’t seem to know – or care – that all this unprecedented attention makes her look like Weinstein’s whore. Really, it looks bad. People are starting to tire of her big mouth on top of the constant attention, top-billing roles, and awards, and are starting to wonder what the real reason is for all this.

The same whining every year…. Noone cares really….

Oh my God! wilful blindness. They nominated Silvester Stallone and not Michael B. Jordan even though Sly himself said that MBJ carried the movie.
And Idris’ performance was below everyone’s? You’re sticking with that opinion? Have you SEEN Beasts of No Nation? You are so full of shit its not even funny.

She is acting. Have you seen any of her movies? I doubt it. She has real talent, in case you could possibly imagine it.

Then you didn’t actually see his film.

None of those actors performances were better than those nominated. Buy a ticket and see the movies you are talking about.

Maybe you should get a grip and calm down.

I notice that you weave through what I said to pick on one thing you can be subjective about; and subjective without even giving a single reason why ‘it doesn’t match the nominees’. Wait, here’s a reason; the cast is all black.
But I’m the one that’s full of crap? Okay.