“Moonlight” won best picture and the film academy rewarded more African American actors and filmmakers in more categories than it ever had in a single year. But just two months before 2018’s Oscar nominations are announced, the projected representation of diversity on film’s biggest night is complicated, at best. “It looks like there is a lot more work to be done,” says April Reign, #OscarsSoWhite creator. And after two years of back-to-back all-white acting nominees, the 2017 Oscar nominations were a far different story. More than the icing on the cake, the best picture prize for “Moonlight” felt like a smoke signal of sorts giving way to something more tangible, more inclusive for the future of Hollywood.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 30, 2017 10:52 UTC