8. Straight Outta Compton And Sanjay's Super Team Both Lose
By now youve surely heard that, for the 2016 Oscars, all the acting nominees were white. There wasnt a single actor or actress of colour nominated, in the leading or supporting role categories. All the Best Picture candidates are white-centric, too, leading Twitter to criticise the Academy under the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite. If you delve a little deeper, there are a couple of minority-appreciating nominees in the smaller categories that the Academy could award with a prize and go some way towards redeeming themselves. For example, Sanjay Patels wonderful Hinduism-inspired Pixar short Sanjays Super Team has been nominated for Best Short Film and the hugely successful rap-culture-celebrating N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton has been nominated for Best Original Script. If both of these films lose, further showcasing the Academy Awards favouritism towards Caucasian-centric cinema, the internet is bound to explode with rage. Even if Straight Outta Compton does win, itll still be pointed out that its white screenwriters were rewarded in lieu of its terrific minority cast.
