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Academy Award nominations: The whitest Oscars in a generation?
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Jan 15, 2015
Academy Award nominations: The whitest Oscars in a generation?
Oscar nominations are out, and this year looks to be another where performances by people of color go unrewarded.
Selma residents, many with firsthand connections to the city's civil rights movement, file into the Walton Theater for a free screening of <em>Selma</em>.
The civil rights story Selma won an Oscar Best Picture nomination, but nothing in other major categories.
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Oscar nominations are out, and this year looks to be another where performances by people of color go unrewarded.

The 2015 Oscar nominees were announced early Thuesday morning.  There were a few surprises, but as SCPR's The Frame host John Horn says, not a single person of color was nominated in any acting category.  This is, according to Horn's calculation, the whitest Oscars in 16 years.

While the civil rights story "Selma" was nominated for Best Picture, it failed to garner any other significant nominations.

Horn noted, at least the Academy was welcoming to two very experimental films, "Birdman" and "Boyhood."  Still, he says, the years of complaining about lack of diversity in Hollywood seem to be having little impact on the voting members of the Academy.