BAFTAs: Joaquin Phoenix Delivers Powerful Speech About Lack Of Diversity In This Year’s Awards Season

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As expected, diversity (or the lack thereof) was the hot-button topic at tonight’s BAFTA Awards. Joaquin Phoenix, picking up his Best Actor prize for Joker, made a particularly poignant speech on t…

, who many thought could’ve been a nominee in the acting field this year, wasn’t holding back with the quips when live-tweeting from inside the ceremony.

“i’m sitting next to half of the black people here and the three of us are laughing at all of [Graham Norton’s] jokes,” she posted as this year’s host pointed to the #BAFTAsSoWhite controversy in his opening monologue., essentially the story of a white man who makes himself even whiter,” Norton quipped.

“They’re beginning the ceremony by patting themselves on the back for including women and bong joon ho,” Turner-Smith also wrote as the awards got underway.For Sama scooped the award for Best Documentary, having become the most-nommed doc in BAFTA’s history. The project came from female Syrian director Waad al-Kateab, who had the joint most nominations for any individual , and Edward Watts.

The winners in both short film and animated short were women directors, Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva forGrandad Was a Romantic.director Sergio Pablos also highlighted the diverse crew employed on his animated feature, “[The film had] the most diverse crew I’ve ever worked with. 22 countries, 15 languages, almost gender parity.”

 

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Uses his platform to say what is and people listen! Let’s hope something changes!

If he's so outraged, he could always just decline to accept these awards. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

He was just trying to be controversial and to take the controversy away from the film and him winning as the one thing he was right about he was being self-righteous

AmritaAcharia1 Says the elite straight white male, telling every group he's oppressing them, what a flipping clown.

Is he going to stop acting?

So basically. You better give awards to a more diverse group of people regardless of their performance and if someone was better. Otherwise, you will get called out and labeled a racist because your not diverse enough for political correctness. Same shit every day.

Someone should let io9 read the great news after all its hard work to disrupt this film's release. Fortunately, it blocked me after calling out the campaign on Joker. 🃏👏🏆

While accepting an award for a movie about the pain and suffering of a white man, directed by a white man. LOL

... while accepting an award. LOL

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