The only problem I had with this infographic, and I brought it up with the person who made it, was that I would put Spike Lee in the influential filmmakers section. But I got, I think, a fair response which essentially said that this info graphic was more about the up and comers, those who are movers and shakers. So, I asked, where is Ava DuVernay? They included her production company AFFRM but not her. To my mind, and perhaps I am not someone who knows everything after all, there is no more influential black filmmaker working today than DuVernay. But hey, have a look and let us know what you think. Full infographic after the cut.
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I’d put Cuba Gooding Jr. between Jamie Foxx and Denzel Washington for Glory. I’d put Denzel Washington-Training Day and Forest Whitaker-The Last King of Scotland after Octavia Spencer in the Help
Joe, you forgot Sidney Poitier, Washington for Training Day, Forest Whitaker, Cuba Gooding Jr,
Ranking the black actors actresses and their wins at the Oscars
1. Jamie Foxx for Ray
2. Denzel Washington for Glory
3. Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby
4. Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
5. Hattie McDaniels for Gone with the Wind
6. Lou Gossett Jr. for An Officer and a Gentlemen
7. Lupita Nyongo for 12 Years a Slave
8. Halle Berry for Monsters Ball
9. Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost
10. Octavia Spencer for The Help
11. Monique for Precious
Whoopi Goldberg should’ve won for the Color Purple over Ghost. Oda Mae Brown was a really slapstick, argumentative character.
Halle Berry was great in the Call. She was really good in Monster’s Ball in which she won for best actress.
Chiewtol Ejifor should’ve won over Matthew McGoughaney Dallas Buyers Club. Ejifor just gave a standout incredible performance and the little girl Quanzhenwe Wallis from Beasts of the Southern Wild deserved the critic’s choice award for Best Young Actor or Actress.
Morgan Freeman’s win for Million Dollar Baby was worthy of an Oscar and so was Jamie Foxx’s win for Ray.
My Predictions for Next Years Academy Awards
Best Picture
Big Eyes 9 Nominations
Get on Up 7 Nominations
Gone Girl 4 Nominations
The Grand Budapest Hotel 5 Nominations
The Hobbit: There and Back Again 8 Nominations
Inherent Vice 5 Nominations
Interstellar* 12 Nominations
A Most Violent Year 5 Nominations
Unbroken 8 Nominations
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice
Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Tim Burton for Big Eyes
JC Chandor for A Most Violent Year
Christopher Nolan for Interstellar*
Best Actor
Ben Affleck in Gone Girl
Russell Crowe in Noah 4 Nominations
Matthew McGoughaney in Interstellar
Jack O’Connell in Unbroken
Joaquin Pheonix in Inherent Vice
Best Actress
Amy Adams in Big Eyes*
Berenice Bejo in The Search 1 Nomination
Carrie Conn in Unbroken
Viola Davis in Get on Up
Rosemund Pike in Gone Girl
Best Supporting Actor
Richard Armitage in The Hobbit: There and Back Again
Josh Brolin in Inherent Vice
Sir Ian Mckellen in The Hobbit: There and Back Again*
Mark Ruffalo in Foxcatcher 2 Nominations
Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes
Best Supporting Actress
Anna Kendrick in Into the Woods 2 Nominations
Octavia Spencer in Get on Up
Meryl Streep in Into the Woods
Jacki Weaver in Magic in the Moonlight
Noami Watts in St. Vincent
Best Original Screenplay
Big Eyes
Get on Up
Interstellar
Magic in the Moonlight
A Most Violent Year
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Drop 1 Nomination
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
The Hobbit: There and Back Again*
Inherent Vice
Production Design
Big Eyes
Exodus: Gods and Kings* 4 Nominations
Get on Up
The Hobbit: There and Back Again
Interstellar
Costume Design
Big Eyes
Birdman
Exodus: Gods and Kings*
Get on Up
Unbroken
Film Editing
Big Eyes
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel*
Interstellar
A Most Violent Year
Makeup
Big Eyes
The Grand Budapest Hotel*
Guardians of the Galaxy 1 Nomination
The Hobbit: There and Back Again
Noah
Visual Effects
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 1 Nomination
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Godzilla 1 Nomination
Interstellar*
Noah
Cinematography
The Equalizer
Interstellar*
Inherent Vice
Magic in the Moonlight
Unbroken
Original Score
Alexandre Desplat for Unbroken
Danny Elfman for Big Eyes
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Gone Girl
Howard Shore for The Hobbit: There and Back Again*
Hans Zimmer for Interstellar
Original Song
Annie
Jersey Boys
The Lego Movie
Muppets Most Wanted
Rio 2
Animated Feature
Big Hero 6 2 Nominations
How to Train Your Dragon 2* 1 Nomination
The Lego Movie
Maleficient 1 Nomination
Mr. Peabody and Sherman 1 Nomination
Sound Editing
Big Hero 6
Get on Up
Interstellar
Noah
Unbroken*
Sound Mixing
Gone Girl
Get on Up
The Hobbit: There and Back Again
Interstellar
Noah
Also to clarify my statement that “the differences under “sexuality” between Blacks and Whites is almost negligible,” I’m referring in terms of STATISTICS solely; here’s one where statistics don’t say much, because I’m sure that the content of those portrayals under “sexuality” are vastly different
I DO have to say that while a lot of these percentages are truly disgusting (I mean, the director’s guild and screenwriting ones are INSANE!!), statistics scare me sometimes because without context I’m not sure what the implications are. For example, that the percentage of black actors on TV and film have fallen to 13 percent is odd, but it also is an accurate reflection of changing demographics in the U.S., where Hispanics have statistically outnumbered blacks for a while now … so should we allocate roles based on an accurate statistical representation, i.e. having more Hispanics than Blacks on screen? Perhaps it would make more sense geograhically, i.e. more Blacks in Southern-based shows and more Hispanics and Asians in South-West based ones, where I’m sure that the statistics are even MORE skewed?
Great infographic, although I have to say that the “Black Domestic” and “sexuality” charts are much more frightening for the info they have for Asians and Hispanics in film … and the “caregiver” and “relationship” stats for Latinos under “domestic” is in particular scarily high and I’m gonna venture to say that they are seldom positive portrayals … as for Asians under “sexuality” that’s also really sad, considering when female Asians ARE sexualized its really some of the most horrendous fetishization on screen … the differences under “sexuality” between Blacks and Whites is almost negligible
I saw BELLE at the AtlFF last week and while it’s well made and entertaining, I don’t see it as a player in the Oscar race, as it’s likely to be forgotten along with other respectable, but not spectacular costume dramas. On the other hand, Dear White People was a hysterically brilliant romp that should totally be a contender at the Spirit Awards and hopefully more. Over 300 people were turned away from the screening I attended. I hope this isn’t ignored like Fruitvale.
The positive thing about so many “black-themed” movies being released (and good ones too!) is that there is an international market that can now see African-Americans as more than buffoons and jokesters. That there are serious issues and historical context to the story.
Best Cinematography is funny. They should count the percentage of the nominees being even American (for American films). This category has been so foreign for decades.
Also, I just realized that I have a few cousins that are 50% black. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever given that a thought before. In America I would have.
How can someone be an “up and comer” and influential at the same time? Really, Spike Lee — for better or worse — should be on this list.
Poor Spike can’t get ever get a break…
I saw the previews for Belle and hmmm….it looks like a Masterpiece Theater type movie. Will wait for the critics reviews.
And get ready for “Belle”! Fox Searchlight is going to do an Oscar campaign, well, a CAMPAIGN in any case for this sumputous,moving,true story of a mulatto girl raised in one of the stately homes of England as an aristocrat in the later 1700s, when slavery was finally beginning to be looked at as a crime by the British govt. And how Belle, its’ half-breed heroine may have played an actual role in this untold story of Black history. And AGAIN, it’s being made by British filmmakers with a sublime lead performance by Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Belle. AND there’s the news of news, co co-incide with Sasha’s article, both the DIRECTOR AND THE WRITER are Black women!!! All British it’s true! But I cannot remember a single major feature film being released by an American distributor ever being written and directed by women of color. Times they are a-changin’ And fast! And the perspective in “Belle” is so unique, so exquisite, and when the credits rolled, I saw why. And as I said on my blog “Oscar Will Go GAGA For Gugu!” Is there going to be another tour-de-force role like this for a Black Actress this year. I don’t think so.