#OscarsSoWhite Slams Academy Awards For Nominee Diversity Deficit

#OscarsSoWhite Slams Academy Awards For Nominee Diversity Deficit
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 20: David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay attend 'Selma': Spotlight Conversation With Filmmaker Ava DuVernay - 2014 Urbanworld Film Festival at AMC Loews 34th Street 14 theater on September 20, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Chance Yeh/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 20: David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay attend 'Selma': Spotlight Conversation With Filmmaker Ava DuVernay - 2014 Urbanworld Film Festival at AMC Loews 34th Street 14 theater on September 20, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Chance Yeh/Getty Images)

This year’s Academy Awards are set to be the whitest Oscars since 1998, and Twitter is not happy about it.

Since the announcement of the Oscar nominations Thursday morning, the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag has exploded on social media as users draw heavy criticism of the predominantly white list of artists.

"Selma" picked up a nomination in the Best Film category, but the Academy's snub of director Ava DuVernay and lead actor David Oyelowo came as a shock to many. Criticism of Hollywood's white washed race problem is nothing new, but that doesn't make #OscarsSoWhite any less painfully hilarious and poignant.

Who do you think deserved an Oscar nod and didn't get one? Tell us in the comments section below.

#OscarsSoWhite They wanted to know why Selma wasn't centered around LBJ.

I'm not making this one up.

— Nessa. (@curlyheadRED) January 15, 2015

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