Consider This: Is #OscarsSoWhite A Symptom Of Movies Losing (Even More) Ground To TV?

Unless you've been living underneath a soundproof rock, you've surely heard that the nominations for the 2016 Academy Awards were announced last week, and in a repeat of last year, there was an appalling lack of diversity therein. No actor of color picked up even one of the 20 acting nominations, despite strong contenders—Idris Elba of “Beasts Of No Nation” was perhaps the foremost candidate to not make the final cut— and were it not for "The Revenant" and its Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and DP Emmanuel Lubezki, there would be no persons of color in the Best Picture, Director, Cinematographer or Editing fields at all.

With respect to women, who didn't even get the consolation prize of a trending #OscarsSoWhite-style meme, the picture is even more grim: no female-directed film received a Best Picture nod (with 8 of only 10 slots being utilized), and no women were nominated in the Directing or Cinematography categories. "Mad Max: Fury...