The 2016 Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, and none of the people nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, or Best Supporting Actress were performers of color.
Lots of people were frustrated by the lack of diversity in the nominations, given the number of successful films put out this year featuring actors of color.
No love for Tangerine stars? Where's Will Smith? Why is the breakout star of 'Creed' a white dude? #Oscars still feel pretty....#Oscars2016
While What Happened, Miss Simone? was nominated for Best Documentary, and Straight Outta Compton was nominated for Best Original Screenplay, the latter was written by three white men.
Correction: THREE white scriptwriters.
Look, we've known what's up with the Oscars since DRIVING MISS DAISY won in the same year DO THE RIGHT THING was released. Since CRASH won.
People began tweeting the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, created last year by magazine editor April Reign.
It's actually worse than last year. Best Documentary and Best Original Screenplay. That's it. #OscarsSoWhite
Reign told BuzzFeed News that she was disappointed, but not surprised, by this year's nominations. She also elaborated on the intended purpose of the hashtag.
"This campaign is two-fold," she said. "It's not just about the Academy. It's also about Hollywood in general. You can't even nominate films if they're not being made."
Reign added that the goal was not to highlight a "token nomination for every film," although she felt that Idris Elba's performance in Beasts of No Nation, Ryan Coogler's direction of Creed, and Tangerine were particularly notable this year.
"It's also about studio heads and their decisions, repeatedly, not to feature the stories of marginalized communities," she added.
#OscarsSoWhite is back! Not a single person of color among the 20 acting nominees. And #StraightOuttaCompton no best picture.
Goes into attic, lovingly dusts off a framed picture, it's a tweet that reads " #OscarsSoWhite ketchup is too spicy for them"
Maybe they're doing #OscarsSoWhite again because Hollywood loves sequels
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The Academy must think 12 Years A Slave bought them 12 years to be white. #OscarsSoWhite
It's easy to say that Awards Season doesn't matter when you've the luxury of being repped so often that you've become bored. #OscarsSoWhite
C'mon #Oscars2016, this is too obvious. It's 2016. #OscarsSoWhite #OscarNoms
Apparently black, brown, and Asian people did nothing this year acting wise, so, cool. #OscarsSoWhite
Please don't give me any bs about "not enough talent" among POC last year when we had Creed, Concussion, SOC, Dope, etc #OscarsSoWhite
#OscarsSoWhite AGAIN! But can we expect when 94% of the Academy is white?
&don't get me started on women of color: 1 black woman & zero Asian or Latina women have ever won Best Actress. In 87 years. #OscarsSoWhite
Some pointed out the irony that the Oscars will be hosted by black comedian Chris Rock.
I do find it humorous though. #OscarsSoWhite being hosted by Chris Rock. I mean, they just handed him so much material. Like he needs help😂
I can't WAIT for Chris Rock to lay into this shit. #OscarsSoWhite
The Academy appeared to be making changes after last year's backlash by inviting a very diverse group of new members to join: 8 of 25 actors invited (32%), 10 of 26 directors invited (38%), and 10 of 21 writers invited (48%) were people of color.
In November, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said, "When it comes to fair and equal representation in our industry, words are not enough. We also have a responsibility to take action. And we have a unique opportunity to do so now."
Clearly, this year's voters didn't take that opportunity.