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1. www.bbc.com › culture › article9 Years after #OscarsSoWhite, here's what diversity looks ...

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   Mar 11, 2024 · The following year, the same exact thing happened, prompting stars such as Jada Pinkett and Spike Lee to boycott the awards. Realising there was an issue (or that the biggest stars in the...

   • Has the Oscars really faced up to its race problem? - BBC

     The Oscars’ race problem was suddenly on the cover of global...

2. www.nytimes.com › 2020/02/06 › moviesThe Hashtag That Changed the Oscars: An Oral History

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   Feb 6, 2020 · A month ago, exactly three seconds after she’d announced a list of Oscar nominees for best director that excluded women, the writer and actress Issa Rae appended those four words, an indictment...

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4. www.bbc.com › culture › articleHas the Oscars really faced up to its race problem? - BBC

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   The Oscars’ race problem was suddenly on the cover of global newspapers, and debated on television, while pillars of the black filmmaking community including Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith...

5. www.britannica.com › story › what-is-theWhat Is the Significance of the #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag?

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   They included only one person of color: Cynthia Erivo for her portrayal as Harriet Tubman in Harriet, which arguably affirmed a long-standing trend for Black actors to be recognized at the Oscars only for playing enslaved characters or fulfilling racist tropes.

6. www.bbc.com › news › world-us-canada-64883399How #OscarsSoWhite changed the Academy Awards - BBC

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   Mar 9, 2023 · The omission of Black actors like Viola Davis for her role in The Woman King and Danielle Deadwyler in Till in the Best Actress category has caused some to criticise the Academy for failing to...

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7. www.abc10.com › article › entertainment#OscarsSoWhite | How the Oscars have changed over the years ...

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   Mar 27, 2022 · The Oscars were lambasted back in 2015 for a lack of diversity in all four acting categories. Only white actors were nominated, which prompted the Twitter campaign #OscarsSoWhite.

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   Why did Jada Pinkett Smith boycott the Oscars?

   • The Academy went into crisis mode, holding an emergency meeting and announcing an ambitious target to double the number of women and people of colour in its membership by 2020. Jada Pinkett Smith was one of the pillars of the black filmmaking community to boycott the 2016 awards (Credit: Alamy) Racism at the Oscars was nothing new, of course.

   Has the Oscars really faced up to its race problem? - BBC

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   Why is 'Oscars So White' trending in 2015?

   • But in 2015, the picture looked bleak. That is when the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite - started by activist and writer April Reign - began to trend, highlighting the fact that out of 20 actors nominated that year, none were people of colour.

   How #OscarsSoWhite changed the Academy Awards - BBC

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   Why is Oscars so white so important?

   • #OscarsSoWhite was the catalyst for an enduring social justice campaign. In 2016 the Academy announced its slate of acting nominations for the upcoming awards, and it was once again exclusively composed of white actors.

   What Is the Significance of the #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag?

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   How has the 'OscarsSoWhite' protest movement changed over the years?

   • In 2016, after another all-white set of acting nominations, the #OscarsSoWhite protest movement gained major global attention. Five years on, how much has changed, asks Leila Latif. It started, as so many things do nowadays, with a hashtag.

   Has the Oscars really faced up to its race problem? - BBC

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   Did people really get what was going on at the Oscars?

   • But people didn’t get what was going on. Members would say, ‘We’re professionals — we just vote for who’s best.’” On Jan. 15, 2015, the academy awarded all 20 acting nominations to white actors for the first of two consecutive years, inspiring April Reign to create the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.

   The Hashtag That Changed the Oscars: An Oral History

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   Was there racism at the Oscars?

   • Racism at the Oscars was nothing new, of course. When Hattie McDaniel became the first black actor to win an Oscar in 1939, she was put on a segregated table at the back of the awards show and refused entry to the "whites only" after party.

   Has the Oscars really faced up to its race problem? - BBC

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9. www.usatoday.com › story › life#OscarsSoWhite controversy: What you need to know - USA TODAY

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   Feb 2, 2016 · Oscar experts on 'whiteout' boycott: Academy needs to fix itself. Q: What sparked the backlash?