BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sadly, supporting roles for women of color in major studio films is also not nearly as common as it should be so there really are not a lot of options to choose from for this category either. However there is one actress that should not have been ignored and that actress is Carmen Ejogo. Ejogo was wonderful as Coretta Scott King in SELMA and I wasn’t surprised since she had experience playing the civil right’s leader and wife of MLK since she played the role back in 2001 in the omHBO movie BOYCOTT alongside her own real-life husband Jeffrey Wright as MLK. To me that HBO part was her understudy to help her prepare herself to become what we saw in SELMA. She looked so much like Scott King in her mannerisms and the gentle grace with which she moved and the way that same grace carried over to her acting. I consider Ejogo’s snub to be just as major an oversight as the one against her co-star David Oyelowo.
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When was the last time a black director was nominated for anything none persecution related?
The industry seriously needs to diversify.
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That is a very good point. It seems that there needs to be an element of racial hardship to the piece to get a black director a nod.
And let’s not even get started on Asian actors/directors/writers who tend to be completely ignored if their name isn’t Ang Lee.
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Well this is what makes me laugh because I was checking my top ten films of the year. Every single one was directed by a white man. Even the Raid 2 was directed by a Welsh guy.
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I was so shocked when I found out that Gareth Evans was the director of the The Raid films. I was thinking the guy who made Ong Bak was the director or something.
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Hey, glad to see people still talking about this. It’s not just an Oscar problem, but an industry problem!
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Exactly. There really needs to come a time when we get more diversity in major studio tentpole films both in front and behind the camera.
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