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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

How Can the Oscars Actually Fix Their Diversity Problem?

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of #OscarsSoWhite and the Academy's bold new rule changes to try to correct the problem, we talk about Hollywood's overall diversity dilemma, with some input from Spike Lee, Don Cheadle, and John Legend. From there we catch up on the biggest news from Sundance, including Nate Parker's record-busting hit The Birth of a Nation, and do our best to predict one more mysterious category, Best Director. 

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And Richard Lawson is still at Sundance, but he'll be joining us later.

0:45.6

So don't fret Richard fans.

0:47.8

This week, we'll dive into the topic that's dominated all of the Oscar conversations

0:51.6

much more than the awards themselves, which is the push

0:54.2

for the Academy to include more films featuring people of color and the Academy's significant

0:58.8

rule changes that were in response to this ongoing debate.

1:01.8

We'll also have some commentary on the topic

1:03.6

from some of the people we talk to at Sundance,

1:05.7

including Don Cheetle, Spike Lee, and John Legend.

1:08.8

And then from there, we'll pivot back to Sundance

1:10.7

and talk about what might become some of the biggest films of the year as Richard

1:13.8

and Mike Phyllis in on all the hot titles from Sundance.

1:17.1

And finally we'll go big before we go home and dive back into yet another impossible to

1:21.3

predict category Best Director. The online debate that began last year with the hashtag Oscar So white returned in force this year when the

1:44.0

Oscar nominations for the second year in a row featured no actors of color and

1:47.8

very few nominations for minorities in general. But unlike last year this time it

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