"Setting aside the more obscure, technical categories, when it comes to the best picture award along with the major nominations for acting, writing and directing, there are, ahem, zero people of colour in the Oscar race this year.
There are so few significant African-American characters in any of the 10 films nominated for best picture that comedian Aziz Ansari did a bit about it at the Producers Guild Awards Saturday night, wondering why there couldn't have been at least one black kid checking his Facebook account in The Social Network, adding that things were so white that in 127 Hours, when James Franco's hiker character cuts off his arm, it doesn't even turn black.
It's hard not to notice how few minorities had any visible roles in this year's most lauded films. The Social Network offers us a virtually lily-white Harvard; The Fighter is set in an oh-so-white, blue-collar Boston neighbourhood; The King's Speech depicts an all-white, upper-crust, 1930s-era London; Toy Story 3, like most Pixar films, is set in a fantasy suburbia without any obvious references to minorities; and True Grit takes us back to the Old West, where the only black faces I can remember seeing are that of a manservant and a stable boy.
And if you're wondering about lead actor nominee Javier Bardem, he's from Spain." Read More
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