The Oscars and the Minority Awards

After all the euphoria of the 2020 Oscars, there are things we need to reflect on. If there’s one thing to agree on, it’s the awards continue to
be overwhelmingly for and about the standard: White, cis, straight men. Since the #OscarSoWhite campaign it is not possible to say that
big changes have happened. The nominees continue to be those within this predefined class. However, we need to talk and reflect on
rewards for ethnic or gender minorities, and how this cannot generate a clash over who is most oppressed, as there is no hierarchy of
oppression.

We live in a society where being a woman is still a condition that does not bring recognition by the Academy. How many women do we
actually see competing (and winning) in technical categories such as directions, for example? At the same time, the Oscar world hasn’t
opened its doors to non-whites either. And it is necessary to highlight these two points. great Gerwig (little women) and Taika Waititi (JoJo
rabbit) were nominated for best adapted screenplay in the latest edition of award. Greta was the only woman in the category. Taika was
the one who won. However, in addition to realizing that once again a woman has not an important academy award, it is also inevitable to
analyze that Taika does not only represent the male gender. For those who don’t know, he is of mauri origin from the whanau-a-Rapanui,
native people of New Zealand. Therefore, he also represents a no-white person.

If, on the one hand, women continue to be undervalued, on the other hand, people who are not white are not. When a man of another
ethnicity wins an important award like the Oscar, we have to celebrate the breaking of paradigm of the white man dominating the academy
(although we know that nothing has changed yet).

When you have an Asian, like bong Joon-ho, winning best director, and a man of mauri origin being the first of his ethnicity, to be awarded
the Oscar statuette for best adapted screenplay, we have to look beyond the genre. Here among so many other whites who have always
been awarded in other editions.

Audre Lorde, black woman, writer and important civil rights activist, explains and brings an important reflection on how there is no
hierarchy of oppression.
 “From my membership in all these groups, I learned that oppression and intolerance of differences come in all shapes and genders and
colors and sexualities; and among those of us who share the goal.

of liberation and a possible future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression […] so I know I can’t afford to fight just one
form of oppression. I cannot allow myself to believe that freedom from bigotry is right of only one specific group”. (From the chapter
difference and survival”, from book I am your sister. Collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde)

that is, due to a recurring patriarchal system in our society, Greta is still the only woman to be nominated for the Oscar category for best
adapted screenplay. Several women still do not have due prominence in their work in the cinematographic world, as well as in other
activities. The fact that she was the only one in the category is symptomatic and reflects how the award continues to be for white men. But
it is important to distinguish ethnicity. Ethnicities are also not represented and are not awarded.

In 2018, Emma Stone, when announcing the nominees for the best director category, made her dissatisfaction with the lack of women at
the awards very clear, emphasizing that only Greta was up for the award (at the time, for the film lady bird).

It Guillermo del toro who took the Oscar for best picture with the film the shape of water in that edition.

In the cinematographic word as well as in other

activities the fact she was the only one the category is symptomatic and reflects how the awards continues to be for white men but it is
important to be for not scared in 2018
Emma stone when announced the nominees for the best directory category made her dissatisfaction with the lack of women at the best
picture with the films the shape of water in that edition after all being with men and it is exactly because of these two points that we must
clarify how there is no people of other genders as well each class each faces its particles and racist society and we share the same desire
to break these oppression
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