Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010)
The controversy made the Academy members pay more attention to less high-profile films - that gave them the edge to score nominations.
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Poll: #OscarsSoRight?
After controversy over the lack of non-white acting nominees at the Oscars in 2015 and 2016, a record has been broken this year with seven nominations for actors of color. There have also been many more nominations for people of color than there has been in the past, including the cinematography, editing, directing and documentary categories.
To what do you attribute this change? Is it only a reaction to the uproar and protesting? Would this same work be nominated in any other year as it is the best work and should be chosen? Do you think the boycotts simply made the members of the Academy look closer at films they may have not given much thought to in the past? And what about the movement by the Academy to add more young members and members of color? How do all these things fit together to give us 2017's nominations?
Results of 371 votes:
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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The squeaky wheel gets the grease - protesting really can change things. -
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Hair (1979)
Over 600 Academy members were added in 2016, many of them young and/or people of color - that has made the difference. -
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Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert C. 1994
These films deserved every accolade they earned - the Academy members were right on.
