1 hr 7 min

Diverse Oscars Nominees Means Diverse Winners, Right‪?‬ The Tea of FIT

    • Society & Culture

On February 28, 2021, The 78th Golden Globe Awards aired on television. Many of the nominees and winners were somewhat controversial because it seemed diverse on the surface, but was it really? On March 15, the 93rd Academy Awards had a slightly more diverse group of nominees, echoing the same issues from the 2015 #OscarSoWhite movement of awareness started by April Reign.

There are spoilers for Moxie and Sound of Metal in this episode.

What is HFPA? 2021 Golden Globes group has no Black members https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-02-21/hfpa-golden-globes-2021-who-are-the-members (LA Times)

Full LA Times coverage of the Golden Globes: https://www.latimes.com/topic/golden-globes

It Could Be the Most Diverse Oscars Ever, but the Problem Isn’t Solved https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/movies/oscars-diversity.html (NYT)

Oscar Nominations 2020: Still So White https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/oscar-nominations-2020-still-so-white.html

The Future Belongs to Minari's Steven Yeun https://www.gq.com/story/steven-yeun-april-cover-profile (GQ)

Golden Globes See Diverse Slate of Winners as Streamers Keep Gaining https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/28/movies/live-updates-golden-globes-highlights (NYT)

IG account that exposed the GG: https://www.instagram.com/deuxmoi/?hl=en

On February 28, 2021, The 78th Golden Globe Awards aired on television. Many of the nominees and winners were somewhat controversial because it seemed diverse on the surface, but was it really? On March 15, the 93rd Academy Awards had a slightly more diverse group of nominees, echoing the same issues from the 2015 #OscarSoWhite movement of awareness started by April Reign.

There are spoilers for Moxie and Sound of Metal in this episode.

What is HFPA? 2021 Golden Globes group has no Black members https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-02-21/hfpa-golden-globes-2021-who-are-the-members (LA Times)

Full LA Times coverage of the Golden Globes: https://www.latimes.com/topic/golden-globes

It Could Be the Most Diverse Oscars Ever, but the Problem Isn’t Solved https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/movies/oscars-diversity.html (NYT)

Oscar Nominations 2020: Still So White https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/oscar-nominations-2020-still-so-white.html

The Future Belongs to Minari's Steven Yeun https://www.gq.com/story/steven-yeun-april-cover-profile (GQ)

Golden Globes See Diverse Slate of Winners as Streamers Keep Gaining https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/28/movies/live-updates-golden-globes-highlights (NYT)

IG account that exposed the GG: https://www.instagram.com/deuxmoi/?hl=en

1 hr 7 min

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