'It's time to come alive,' sang Janelle Monáe in the show's opening number, 'because the Oscars is so white!'
Instead, this year's slate of nominees in the major acting categories was overwhelmingly white, with Cynthia Erivo the only actor of color to be recognized.hiding black people that the academy got her to hide all the black nominees," joked first presenter Chris Rock."Cynthia, is Eddie Murphy under this stage?""Chris, think how much the Oscars have changed in the past 92 years," Martin joked."In 1929, there was no black acting nominees. Now, in 2020, we got one.
The pair also made reference to the fact that no women directors were nominated this year — somethingKevin Winter / Getty Imagesin reaction to all the acting nominees being white that year. While more actors of color have been nominated and won in the year's since, this year's list of honorees seemed to prompt much public soul-searching during Sunday's show.
"Tonight, we celebrate all the amazing talent in this room," Monáe told the crowd at the very start of the show."We celebrate all the women who directed phenomenal films." "I'm so proud to stand here as a black, queer artist, telling stories," she added, after a duet with Billy Porter, another black member of the LGBTQ community.There were other efforts to increase the diversity on the show's stage.
"We have a firm belief that representation matters deeply — especially in cartoons," she said."Because in cartoons, that's when we first see our movies and how we shape our lives and think about how see the world.", he dedicated his award"to all the indigenous kids in the world who want to do art and dance and write stories.
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