Sentences with phrase «black nominees»

A few days after the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King and the city is bristling with indignant stories about the obvious absence of black nominees for the Academy Awards.

This year, three of the nine Best Picture nominees (Moonlight, Fences and Hidden Figures) have a primarily Black cast, with Joi McMillon becoming the first Black nominee for Best Film Editing for Moonlight.

Thankfully, the headslapping Golden Globe snub in the Best Director category, which led some to worry that he wouldn't be the fifth black nominee in this category in Oscar history, was a one - off snafu.

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The recognition of Davis, Harris and Spencer in the Supporting Actress category is the first time multiple black nominees have been nominated in that category since Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey were both recognized for The Color Purple in 1985.

Two other notable milestone came in Best Film Editing, where Joi McMillon (Moonlight) became the first black woman to be nominated in the category, and in Best Cinematography, where Bradford Young (Arrival) became the first African American nominee (the only previous black nominee, Remi Adefarasin for Elizabeth, was British).

Apart from Chris Ofili and Steve McQueen who won in 1998 and 1999 respectively, there have been few Black nominees — Lynette Yiadom - Boakye in 2013, and Anderson and Himid this year.

And there was a lot of talk about the lack of racial diversity amongst this crop of nominees, stuff that once sounded like rumors were now things Chris Rock was spurting out loudly on stage — calling out Jada Pinkett Smith and by extent William over there, and other actors who were protesting the Oscars for the lack of inclusion of black nominees.

Mr. Parker, who is black, said he was angered when he thought a white Republican senator from the Syracuse area, John A. DeFrancisco, was unfairly questioning the qualifications of a black nominee to the state's power authority.

LOS ANGELES — The 2017 Oscar nominations were a banner year for black nominees both in front of and behind the camera, but other nonwhite groups and women were largely left out of the running.

And each of the four acting categories have at least one black nominee.

We've come a long way since the #OscarsSoWhite controversy of 2015 and 2016 when there were no Black nominees in any of the major acting categories....

This year's ceremony was hosted by comedian Chris Rock, who skewered the Academy for their lack of black nominees.