Sentences with phrase «actor of color»

Want to live in a society where actors of color are represented in the major categories?

* The problem wasn't their fine performances, but the fact those were a few of the handful of major roles for actors of color in prestige - ish films this year (and you can argue «Straight Outta» never really found that prestige clout).

Oyelowo failing to make the cut for Oscar's Best Actor lineup in January was less reflective of Academy bias than the fact that he, most unfortunately, was the only actor of color who stood a decent chance at recognition.

The movie, directed by Ryan Coogler, boasts a stellar cast, mostly made up of prolific actors of color in line with how the nation appears in the Marvel Universe comics.

The SAG Awards were anything but #SoWhite after honoring several actors of color at its 22nd annual ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 30.

Morrison is adept not just at superhero spectacle but at illuminating and photographing, for clarity and beauty, the skin tones of a cast full of actors of color that includes rising newcomers and veterans like Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker.

Worst of all, weirdly enough, is Chadwick Boseman, crumbling under the responsibility of being the film's only major actor of color as he minces and crooks his elbow as the god of wisdom Thoth.

Zendaya (whose father is African - American) is not the only actor of color who appears in the circus, but she is more or less the only one who gets to speak, and even then it's only in the context of a budding romance with Carlyle.

Old excuses about how blockbusters featuring actors of color don't appeal to worldwide audiences have been swept away by the success of franchises like the Fast & Furious series and the Star Wars sequels.

In order for more actors of color to be nominated they need to be featured in more films overall of this ilk.

That's erasing POCs from their own history, and taking roles away from actors of color in the process.

The SAG Awards were anything but #SoWhite after honoring several actors of color at its 22nd annual ceremony including Idris Elba, Viola Davis, Queen Latifah, and Uzo Aduba.

They obviously don't know what to do with actors of color, unless they can represent them in a way that benefits the white male gaze and subverts their race (see other example: Spanish actor Javier Bardem's Oscar - winning performance in No Country for Old Men).

Notable among the many other supporting players are quite a few actors of color who, anachronistic as their appearance may be in 18th - century France, still offer up a pleasantly diverse set of faces that nod in the direction of an «It's a small world, after all» ethos that Disney all - too - often has ignored in the past.

I've made my view on this site well - known that I think having Johnny and Sue as multiracial siblings is pretty damn cool, though I understand and sympathize with those to whom it reads as an attempt not to cast multiple actors of color.

The comedian put a positive spin on the issue as he addressed actors of color, saying, «Let's not let this issue of diversity beat us.»

Among the new names are beloved actors of color, young and old: Oscar Isaac, Idris Elba, Anthony Anderson, Chadwick Boseman, John Boyega, Cliff Curtis, Loretta Devine, America Ferrera, Luis Guzman, Daniel Dae Kim, Dennis Haysbert, Ice Cube, Michael B. Jordan, and many more.

t would have been easy for the magazine to invite actors of color who were on the fringes of the awards race — thereby using its power to draw attention to a more diverse talent pool.

Marvel isn't wrong — it is a very diverse brand, and its Captain America: Civil War releasing on May 6 sports a robust ensemble cast with many actors of color, for a blockbuster superhero flick.

Proyas sort - of - apologized last year for the casting, saying he would've hired more actors of color if it hadn't made the movie so hard to finance at the budget level he needed.

But no aspiring actor of color should think of this as an opportunity missed so much as a bullet dodged.

Since then, the Academy has awarded more than one actor of color on the same night three times; in 2005 (Jamie Foxx for best actor, Morgan Freeman for best supporting actor), 2007 (Forest Whitaker for best actor, Jennifer Hudson for best supporting actress), and 2017.

Wendell Pierce: The independent movie scene is actually where most actors of color get their opportunity.

Moonlight, a black and gay coming - of - age story, received eight nominations and famously won Best Picture, beating out La La Land, a film which incidentally featured no leading actors of color.

Marvel's upcoming superhero flick, Black Panther, stars a bevy of talented actors of color, including Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and the incomparable Angela... Read More

Dorame often paints masks to reference the actor's ability to assume the position of the other, as well as Hollywood's willingness to typecast actors of color.

It was also a good year for actors of color, as Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis, Anthony Anderson, and Andre Braugher (just to name a few) got recognized.

Needless to say, it was a win for Rock and his team, who brilliantly shined even more light on how few Academy nominated films feature actors of color.

Vanity Fair has released its most racially diverse «Hollywood Issue» cover ever for its 20th anniversary edition, following years of criticism for featuring mostly white actors even in years with strong performances from actors of color.

But «Black Panther,» as co-written and directed by Ryan Coogler and starring a deep bench of actors of color, is an against - the - grain $ 100 - million - plus epic so intensely personal that when the usual Marvel touchstones (Stan Lee, anyone) appear, they feel out of place.

Viola Davis and Mahershala Ali won their first Oscars for their supporting roles in African - American stories «Fences» and «Moonlight,» in stark contrast to the 2016 Academy Awards when no actors of color were even nominated.

After two years in which not a single black actor showed up among the acting nominees, this year's crop includes seven actors of color: Mahershala Ali, Viola Davis, Naomie Harris, Ruth Negga, Dev Patel, Octavia Spencer and Denzel Washington.

A record - tying seven actors of color, and a record - breaking six black actors, are nominated.

Notably absent from the pool was any actor of color — the second year in a row that the Academy has elected an all - white group of nominees — and Todd Haynes» Carol, the acclaimed 1950s lesbian drama starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Notably absent from the pool was any actor of color — the second year in a row that the...

Fast forward to 2018 and the TV and film roles have been slowly, yet surely diversifying for actors of color — specifically for Asian Americans.

This year, the Academy nominated seven actors of color for Oscars after not nominating any the previous two years.

Upcoming films such as «Miss Bala,» «Aladdin,» «Kin,» «Superfly,» and «Bohemian Rhapsody» all boast meaty roles for actors of color, and they're more exciting for it.

This year's list included seven actors of color, three African American writers (including the late August Wilson, who wrote the screenplay for Fences), and a Best Director nomination for Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), who becomes only the fourth black director nominated in the Oscars» history after John Singleton, Lee Daniels, and Steve McQueen.

The Academy's inability to nominate any actors of color (to say nothing of people of color in the vast majority of other categories) led to sweeping changes within the body of the Academy.

Online movements such as #OscarsSoWhite have become trending debates that discuss the lack of opportunity for actors of color to receive nominations, a phenomenon which is better understood as being indicative of a systemic practice of discrimination in the film industry, which also underemploys women.

According to a sweeping industry study, only 31 percent of speaking roles in movies go to women (and 29 percent to actors of color), and only 4.2 percent of women get to sit in the director's chair.

Plus the wait for a Hamilton movie gives Hollywood time to invest in some actors of color as future stars so that they don't panic when it's time to cast the movie and realize they don't know enough of them to fill this sprawling movie.

We are stereotyped and locked into generic roles in mainstream movies a lot of the times, and what happens is only those independent thinkers and independent filmmakers have that thinking outside the box that they want to use actors no matter who they are and give more opportunities to actors of color.

«Black Panther» also arrives on the heels of #OscarsSoWhite, the two consecutive years (2015 and 2016) that the Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate any actors of color for awards.

In the interim between making his first and second feature, the #OscarSoWhite campaign highlighted the dearth of filmmakers and actors of color.

@Snowballa: I have no idea how far down the list I'd have to go to include an actor of color — I don't really think in such terms.