#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)

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 that, if they made a movie about it to ease their guilt, it would STILL star & be directed/produced by white people
— lancegould (@lancegould) January 15, 2015

#Oscarssowhite they can't see a problem in this - The diversity gap in the Academy Awards #Oscars2015 #OscarNoms http://t.co/UOZLOM9Mnl"
— Media Diversified (@WritersofColour) January 15, 2015

I feel I need to remind some folks: #OscarsSoWhite isn't an attack on white people. It's more commentary on the system that favors white ppl
— Jason Todd’s Trap Queen (@JaimOutLoud) January 15, 2015

#OscarsSoWhite: The Academy is 94% White. 77% male. Median age: 62. 2% Black members. Thinks a BW prez makes these stats ok.
— 🆃🆁🆄🅳🆈 (@thetrudz) January 15, 2015

#OscarsSoWhite They snubbed "Gone Girl" bc they thought the title was actually black slang.
— dwas.mp3 (@chasemylovex) January 15, 2015

#OscarsSoWhite they don't see race. Or movies with black folks in it, apparently.
— Rev Rell (@awkward_duck) January 15, 2015

#OscarsSoWhite They wanted to know why Selma wasn't centered around LBJ.
I'm not making this one up.
— Nessa. (@curlyheadRED) January 15, 2015

#OscarsSoWhite they haven't shifted their selection process in 87 years#OscarNoms pic.twitter.com/oMB1mVXUZ0
— Glen Coco (@MrPooni) January 15, 2015

@radrebellion just gootta laugh.
— Verna Smith (@VernaPolitics) January 15, 2015

The game is rigged. We know this. And in 2015, it needs to called out. #OscarsSoWhite
— Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) January 15, 2015

#OscarsSoWhite They didn't see Selma but their housekeeper said it was really good.
— Jamie Nesbitt Golden (@thewayoftheid) January 15, 2015

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