Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. What's the difference between God and a director of photography? What? God doesn't think he's a director of photography.

I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media.

This is the Dinner Party Download, Public Radio's Arts and Leisure section.

You just got a Hollywood joke from Steve Smith. That'll break the ice.

Later we will hear about the Technical Achievement Academy Award he won this year.

Smith got a certificate for his work, but not an Oscar statuette,

making him just the guy to kick off our first ever Notscar's show.

That's right, in which we honor everything that isn't getting an Oscar this weekend.

So in a few minutes, we'll talk with Maya Taylor, the breakout star of the film Tangerine.

New York Times film critic A.O. Scott lists his favorite Academy ignored films and composer

Junkie XL, one of the few people who didn't get nominated for his work on Mad Max Fury Road.

It's a crime.

Talks film scores.

Plus, our award for Best Airline Safety Video.

But first, we need to address the elephant in the room.

In 2016, you cannot talk about stuff that didn't get nominated for an Oscar without at least mentioning

Oscars So White. That is how the social media sphere described this year's Oscar nominees,

which conspicuously did not include several films by and about people of color, which

some figured should have been shoe-ins for a nomination or two. Here to talk a tiny bit about

that and then much more about other stuff are Tracy Clayton

and Heaven Nagatu.

What up?

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