The hashtag “#OscarStillSoWhite” refers to the growing controversy that there are no black actors nominated in 2016, out of 20 acting nominations. And nary a thing for “Straight Outta Compton,“ which was a top-notch movie. Same thing, pretty much, last year, which is where the whole #OscarSoWhite thing got started. People are upset.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an Oscar choices oversight committee? Some kind of public, transparency thing, to put an end to all the apparent snubbing, stonewalling, ignoring, politics, whitewashing, and entrenched racism?
But if the public got to participate, if we got to see behind the curtains of the Great and Terrible Biz, the mystery would go out of it, along with the outrage, and there'd be no trending topics and twittering birdsong to get all worked up about. That would be so boring. Here are five world-class black actors who’ve never won.
Danny Glover
Danny Glover’s had a heck of a career. Everyone loved his “Lethal Weapon” character’s chemistry with Mel Gibson’s Martin Riggs, long before Gibson got caught saying racist things on tape to his girlfriend.
