The 2016 Oscar Award, due to the fact that there was no black actor in the actor award, caused the "Oscarsowhite" protest. In the ceremony, the host opened an Asian joke, and the director Ang Lee and more than 20 Asian directors wrote to the organizers to apologize, and it was always a politically sensitive topic in the United States.
In this year's finalist film, what is directly related to the racial issue is the "Green Book" , from a pamphlet that specifically practices apartheid policies (the hotels that prohibit black accommodation, restaurants that ban blacks, etc.), Bringing out the long-standing ethnic equality of the United States. The protagonist of "Black Panther" is the first black hero in many superhero movies. Spike Lee, who often discusses racial issues in his work, was also selected this year by "BlacKkKlansman".
The Oscar-winning selection committee is composed of the American Academy of Performing Arts. After the "Oscar so White" controversy, the American Academy of Performing Arts invited more film workers to participate in the Oscar-winning vote. Has Oscar become more diverse?
The IMDB's film database does not indicate the ethnicity of the practitioners (such as blacks, whites, Asians). We try to explore the issue by the "place of origin" of the film.
The diversity of Oscar's shortlisted films is declining
Oscar's diversity has made significant progress in terms of the Oscar shortlisted film production (including all awards but excluding Oscar foreign language films), compared to the first few years of almost all American movies, and now non-US production The movie can be as close as 60%.
However, it is worth noting that the highest point in recent years (57.7%) is in 2016, and the non-US film shortlist ratio has continued to decline since 2016.
Among the finalists in this year's finalists, the most fruitful non-American films were "Roma" from Mexico (14 awards), followed by Ireland's "The Favourite" (12 awards), and the third place was the British "Bohemian Rhapsody" (8 awards).
In terms of awards, Oscar foreign language films can only be played by non-English films. The most popular non-US film awards are "Best Animated Short Films". From the first Oscarto the present, almost half of the finalists are from the origin of the film. Countries outside the United States.
Taiwanese director Song Xinying's animated work "On Happiness Road" won the Oscar primaries this year and was selected as the 25 best animated feature films. As can be seen from the historical data, this award is the third place in the pluralism, and more than 30% of the finalists are outside the United States.
Oscar Foreign Languages Preference Comedy and War Movies
In order to get more attention from non-English movies, Oscar began to set the "Best Foreign Language Film" award in 1957. From the perspective of previous finalists, most of them are concentrated in Europe, with France being the most popular, followed by Italy and Spain.
The number of Asian film finalists is much larger than the Americas. Among them, Japan has been the most popular, and has had three Oscar-winning foreign language films. Taiwan has been shortlisted 3 times and ranked 14th among all countries. They are all the works of director Ang Lee, "The Wedding Banquet", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Eat Drink Man Woman".
What kind of movies are the finalists for this award? READr uses the type of Oscar's best film as a benchmark to find out the type of Oscar's best foreign language film. The drama films and romance films are all big-name subjects in the shortlists of the two awards, but the proportion of drama films in Oscar foreign language films is significantly higher than that of the best films, and the proportion of love films is much lower. In addition, the proportion of comedy films and war films is higher than the best films, and documentary and sports-type movies have not been shortlisted.
This year, Taiwan’s nominated director, Huang Xinyi’s “The Great Buddha Plus”, was unfortunately dropped out. However, there are still directors in Asia who are participating in the "Shoplifters", which will compete with Mexico's "Roma" and films from Germany, Lebanon and Poland.