And the Oscar nominees are ... the whitest since 1998.
That's the truth as far as the acting categories are concerned. For the first time in 17 years, not a single person of colour stands to win an acting Oscar. [The Atlantic says the last entirely-non-white Oscar nomination list was in 1995. We'll let them duke out which year it is.]
We here at Moviefone Canada looked at Oscar winners and nominees from the past decade to see how they stack up against the upcoming 2015 ceremony. We restricted ourselves to the acting, directing and screenwriting categories.
The definition of "people of colour," of course, varies widely. But when it comes to Oscar nominations, we largely considered people who don't come from an all-white heritage within the last couple of generations.
We plugged the numbers ... and 47 out of 350 nominees in the past 10 years went to people of colour.
That's 13 per cent ... and it's not enough. Especially when U.S. government statistics show that white people (excluding Hispanics or Latinos) make up only 62.6 per cent of the country's population.
One of the best years for diversity was 2006, when a full 34 per cent of nominations went to people of colour. That was the year that "Babel" and "Dreamgirls" came out -- both with racially diverse casts.
It suggests, first of all, that movies aren't reflecting the cultural diversity of its own audiences. And secondly, it suggests that the movies which do aren't being recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Where, for example, was David Oyelowo's Best Actor nomination for "Selma"? Or Ava DuVernay's, for directing the film? Where was any recognition for "Snowpiercer," one of the most racially diverse films to come out this year?
Check out how this year's nominations compare to previous years below. Note that the years mentioned identify the ones in which a film came out, not the year in which an Academy Award ceremony took place.
(Percentages reflect how many nominations there were for people of colour, out of the total nominations in the acting, directing and screenwriting categories.)
2014 (1/35 Nominations - 3%)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Mexican) - Best Director Nominee, "Birdman"
2013 (6/35 Nominations - 17%)
Lupita Nyong'o (Kenyan-Mexican), Best Supporting Actress Winner, "12 Years a Slave"
Alfonso Cuaron (Mexican) - Best Director Winner, "Gravity"
John Ridley (American), Best Adapted Screenplay Winner, "12 Years a Slave"
Chiwetel Ejiofor (British), Best Actor Nominee, "12 Years a Slave"
Barkhad Abdi (Somali), Best Supporting Actor Nominee, "Captain Phillips"
Steve McQueen (British), Best Director Nominee, "12 Years a Slave"
2012 (3/35 Nominations - Nine%)
Ang Lee (Taiwanese), Best Director Winner, "Life of Pi"
Quvenzhane Wallis (American), Best Actress Nominee, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Denzel Washington (American), Best Actor Nominee, "Flight"
2011 (5/35 Nominations - 14%)
Octavia Spencer (American), Best Supporting Actress Winner, "The Help"
Viola Davis (American), Best Actress Nominee, "The Help"
Demian Bichir (Mexican), Best Actor Nominee, "A Better Life"
Berenice Bejo (Argentinian-French), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "The Artist"
Asghar Farhadi (Iranian), Best Original Screenplay Nominee, "A Separation"
2010 (2/35 Nominations - 6%)
Javier Bardem (Spanish), Best Actor Nominee, "Biutiful"
Hailee Steinfeld (Half Filipina), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "True Grit"
2009 (6/35 Nominations - 17%)
Mo'Nique (American), Best Supporting Actress Winner, "Precious"
Geoffrey Fletcher (American), Best Adapted Screenplay Winner, "Precious"
Gabourey Sidibe (American), Best Actress Nominee, "Precious"
Morgan Freeman (American), Best Actor Nominee, "Invictus"
Penelope Cruz (Spanish), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "Nine"
Lee Daniels (American), Best Director Nominee, "Precious"
2008 (3/35 Nominations - 9%)
Penelope Cruz (Spanish), Best Supporting Actress Winner, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Taraji P. Henson (American), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Viola Davis (American), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "Doubt"
2007 (2/35 Nominations - 6%)
Javier Bardem (Spanish), Best Supporting Actor Winner, "No Country for Old Men"
Ruby Dee (American), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "American Gangster"
2006 (12/35 Nominations - 34%)
Forest Whitaker (American), Best Actor Winner, "The Last King of Scotland"
Jennifer Hudson (American), Best Supporting Actress Winner, "Dreamgirls"
Will Smith (American), Best Actor Nominee, "The Pursuit of Happyness"
Adriana Barraza (Mexican), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "Babel"
Penelope Cruz (Spanish), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "Volver"
Rinko Kikuchi (Japanese), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "Babel"
Djimon Hounsou (Beninese), Best Supporting Actor Nominee, "Blood Diamond"
Eddie Murphy (American), Best Supporting Actor Nominee, "Dreamgirls"
Guillermo del Toro (Mexican), Best Original Screenplay Nominee, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Guillermo Arriaga (Mexican), Best Original Screenplay Nominee, "Babel"
Iris Yamashita (American), Best Original Screenplay Nominee, "Letters from Iwo Jima"
Alfonso Cuaron (Mexican), Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, "Children of Men"
2005 (2/35 Nominations - 6%)
Ang Lee (Taiwanese), Best Director Winner, "Brokeback Mountain"
Terrence Howard (American), Best Supporting Actor Nominee, "Hustle and Flow"
2004 (6/35 Nominations - 17%)
Jamie Foxx (American), Best Actor Winner, "Ray"
Morgan Freeman (American), Best Supporting Actor Winner, "Million Dollar Baby"
Catalina Sandino Moreno (Colombian), Best Actress Nominee, "Maria Full of Grace"
Don Cheadle (American), Best Actor Nominee, "Hotel Rwanda"
Sophie Okonedo (British), Best Supporting Actress Nominee, "Hotel Rwanda"
Jose Rivera (Puerto Rican), Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, "The Motorcycle Diaries"
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