#OscarSoWhite: 5 A-List Black Actors Never Nominated for an Oscar

Is there any connection between these two years in a row of #OscarSoWhite,“ the hundred or so repetitions of the ”N-word” in Tarantino’s latest N-word opus magnum, and republican right wing thinly-veiled politics of exclusion, fear, and racism? Any connection at all? Maybe so. Maybe not. One thing’s for certain though—the Oscars are an American institution.
#OscarSoWhite: 5 A-List Black Actors Never Nominated for an Oscar
Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw attends The New York Premiere Of Relativity Media's "Beyond the Lights" at Regal Union Square Stadium on Nov. 13, 2014 in New York City. Larry Busacca/Getty Images/Relativity Media
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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.

(L–R) Danny Glover and Nate Parker star in Relativity Media's "Beyond the Lights." (Suzanne Tenner/© 2013 Blackbird Productions/LLC)
(L–R) Danny Glover and Nate Parker star in Relativity Media's "Beyond the Lights." Suzanne Tenner/© 2013 Blackbird Productions/LLC