Before the 2016 Academy Awards have even kicked off, this year's ceremony looks set to be an all-encompassing debacle. And, though #OscarsSoWhite is perhaps a reductive hashtag (because it suggests that the lack of diversity in populist cinema is the Academy's fault, rather than a much deeper-lying problem at the heart of Hollywood itself), it remains that it has become a powerful weapon against the Academy Awards and their glistening, unanimous whiteness. In a year that should've seen numerous nominations for black performers (most notably Michael B. Jordan for Creed), the Oscars again selected an all white nomination pool, ensuring that, in the last two years, there hasn't been a single actor of colour nominated in any of the four acting categories across the board. The Oscars are an alabaster 40-for-40. As a result of #OscarsSoWhite (which is surely the most successful ever hashtag, by the way), the Academy have vowed to fervently reassess their voting procedure, which can only be a good thing (though the Bigelow argument means we should take this with a pinch of white salt), but it remains that, no matter what the actual outcome of this year's awards, 2016 will forever be the year shrouded by white clouds.