News Oscars not so white? Academy Awards winners see big shift

LOS ANGELES — A black superhero action flick. A film about an indigenous maid in Mexico. A portrayal of a gay, immigrant rock star. Spike Lee’s first Oscar. The 2019 Oscars were a win for films telling stories from a range of racial and cultural perspectives, marking a major shift three years after the movie industry’s top awards show was slammed for overlooking work by nonwhite artists. “Green Book,” a film about racial injustice in the segregated U.S. South in the 1960s, took best picture, the night’s top prize. In his acceptance speech, director Peter Farrelly said the film, about a black pianist and his white driver, was “about loving each other despite our differences.” “Green Book” won three awards, as did “Roma,” a black-and-white, Spanish-language film about an indigenous housemaid, and “Black Panther,” a Marvel superhero movie with an almost entirely black cast. Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” about a black detective who goes undercover with the Ku Klux Klan, also was honored. “It’s a real breakthrough that any film about race gets to win,” Kevin Willmott, who is African-American and was one of the “BlacKkKlansman” writers who won an Oscar for the screenplay, said backstage. “When I first started in… Read full this story

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