The Oscars? Still So White.

Where the hell is Jennifer Lopez? Photo: Barbara Nitke/STXfilms The 2020 Oscar nominations were announced today, revealing an overwhelmingly white and male field of contenders. We gathered a group of writers — Alison Willmore, Angelica Jade Bastién, and E. Alex Jung — to discuss the Academy’s continuing and glaring shortcomings.

E. Alex Jung: Yes, the fact Cynthia Erivo was the only nonwhite acting nominee in a year full of fantastic performances by people of color is incredibly insulting, and says a lot about what the Academy deems as worthy of recognition.

Willmore: Yeah, it’s really difficult to see this year’s nominees as a result of anything other than the Academy’s continuing and glaring shortcomings in this regard. As you pointed out, Alex, if Us was dinged for being a genre film, well, being a genre film sure didn’t seem to hurt Joker any.

Willmore: I think a lot of that conversation ended up focused on Gerwig because she made the most “Oscar movie” of the bunch, with all of the vague associations that come with that. I think Little Women is actually a stealthily ambitious movie that uses its structure to interrogate its source material.

Willmore: Parasite also suffered from being a true ensemble movie, something that baffles awards — I sat in various rooms in which people fought over whether Song Kang Ho was a lead or a supporting actor in that movie. That said, that same category confusion didn’t hurt Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I was particularly crushed by the way that The Farewell was shut out — of screenplay, directing, and picture, but also acting.

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