The Oscars aren't so white in 2017:Oscar Nominations end diversity.

Oscars So White Creator,April Reign-' l began a movement last year when the Oscar nominations came out, and it seems the Academy is listening. There are some firsts for black nominations this year, but there's always more work to be done'

After a two-year diversity drought in its acting categories, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences showered nominations on six African-American themed films, at least 10 black actors and filmmakers, and an Indian adventure, Lion, to boot. The directing nominations had no women; but Barry Jenkins, a young black director, scored for Moonlight — plus Ava DuVernay’s 13th was nominated in the Documentary Feature category, putting her in competition with I Am Not Your Negro from Raoul Peck and OJ: Made In America from Ezra Edelman. The black-themed Best Picture nominees were Moonlight, Fences and Hidden Figures.

While the number of black nominees was unusually large, in a sense it marked a return to form, at least as it was known in the decade preceding 2014, when 12 Years A Slave became the first film from a black director — in this case, Steve McQueen — ever to win the Best Picture Oscar. No black filmmaker has yet won the Directing Oscar.
But in the last four years, the prize went to an Asian or Hispanic director (in fact, the Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition made of of Hispanic, Asian and American Indian groups said today they were disappointed at again being “noticeably underrepresented or not represented at all.”) And black actors, in the decade culminating in 2014, received a share of nominations and Oscars approximately matching their share of the U.S. population.

But the two-year shutout provoked a severe backlash, led by the #OscarsSoWhite social media campaign, followed by a strong response from the Academy, which on January 22 of last year announced a five-year drive to diversify its membership, and immediate steps to add women and ethnically diverse members to its governing board.