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Lupita Nyong’o accepts the award for best actress in a supporting role for "12 Years a Slave"
during the Oscars Sunday in Los Angeles. The historical drama also won for best picture.and for
writing. (AP photo)
Diversity Wins at the Academy Awards
Black and Latino
filmmakers earn
top Oscar honors
took best actor and best supporting actor titles for
their roles in the film as a heterosexual rodeo rat
(McConaughey) and a transgender drug addict (Leto)
united by HIV.
"Thirty-six million people who have lost the battle
to AIDS and to those of you out there who have ever
felt injustice because of who you are or who you love,
tonight I stand here in front of the world with you and
(AP) - Diversity was perhaps the biggest winner at
for you," said Leto in his acceptance speech.
the 86th annual Academy Awards.
Cate Blanchett, the Australian best-actress winner
For the first time, a film directed by a black filmmaker
for her bitter, ruined socialite in Woody Allen's "Blue
- Steve McQueen of "12 Years a Slave" - won best
Jasmine," used her acceptance speech to trumpet the
picture and a Latino - Alfonso Cuaron of "Gravity" -
need to make films with female leads - films like her own
took home best director in a ceremony presided over
and like "Gravity," starring Sandra Bullock.
by a lesbian host and overseen by the academy's first
"12 Years a Slave" also won awards in the writing
black president. And only two of the top six awards
and acting categories. John Ridley picked up the
went to Americans.
trophy for best adapted screenplay, which was based
McQueen's grimly historical drama "12 Years a
on the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup. The screen­
Slave" took best picture, leading the usually sedate
writer is only the second black writer (Geoffrey Fletcher
filmmaker to jum p up and down in celebration after his
won for "Precious" in 2009) to win in the category.
acceptance speech.
Backstage, th e" 12 Years" team mentioned their efforts
The British director dedicated his award to "all of
to include Solomon Northup's memoir as part o f high
the people who endured slavery and the 21 million
school study. The National School Boards Associa­
people who still suffer slavery today."
tion announced in February that the book is now
Cuaron's lost-in-space thriller "Gravity" led the
mandatory reading.
Oscars with seven awards, including cinematogra­
"It's important that we understand our history so we
phy, editing, score, visual effects, sound mixing and
can understand who we were and who we are now and
sound editing.
most importantly who we're going to be," said Brad
The entire Oscar ceremony had the feel of a make­
Pitt, who produced" 12 Years." "We hope that this film
over for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
remains a gentle reminder that we're all equal. We all
Sciences - an institution that has sometimes seemed
want the same: Dignity and opportunity."
stuck in the past. After a Los Angeles Times report
Lupita Nyong'o was a first-time Oscar winner for her
revealed the academy was overwhelming older white
supporting role as field slave Patsey in " 12 Years." "I'm
men, new president Cheryl Boone Isaacs has pushed
a little dazed," said Nyong'o backstage. "I can't believe
for a more varied membership.
this is real life."
The movie industry that the Oscars reflect has also
Nyong'o is the sixth black actress to win in the
been reluctant to tell a wider range of stories.
supporting actress category - and the first major Oscar
"Dallas Buyers Club," the best picture-nominated
win for Kenya (the president of Kenya congratulated
drama about AIDS in 1980s Texas, took two decades
her in a tweet) - following Hattie McDaniel ("Gone with
to get made after countless executives balked at fi­
the Wind"), Whoopi Goldberg ("Ghost"), Jennifer
nancing such a tale. Matthew McConaughey and
Hudson ("Dreamgirls"), Mo'Nique ("Precious") and
Jared Leto, the two Americans in the top six awards,
Octavia Spencer ("The Help").