[Should Minority Filmmakers and Actors be much exited about the Oscars?]

Scheduled to premiere on tomorrow, Sunday February 22nd, the 87th annual Oscars Awards are the most anticipated of all filmmakers, actors and film consumers as it has ever been in years. But the question rings, should minority filmmakers and actors be as excited for them?

Let's look at the facts:

1) The Oscars are composed of 5,783 judges, most of whom are older, Caucasian men, namely some conservative and few liberal. According to a UCLA study, the Elite Oscar Committee prefers to see films about activists overcoming oppression as opposed to "Iron Man smashing a tank." If that is indeed the case concluded in the authoritative American Sociological Review, then it is more important to see what has occurred in this human history as opposed to fictional, fantasy, childlike portrayals, action films that carry no significance other than suspense and for-the-moment thrills. But on the contrary, of the 86 years of the Oscars, only 16 African-American filmmakers/actors have been awarded an Oscar, all in roles that has more to do with human degridation as opposed to overcoming civil oppression. 

2) In the upcoming 2015 awards, not a single actor or filmmaker of color or female filmmaker is up for nominations. Not only are the Oscars the elite rank for film awards, it now resembles country clubs in the past that accepted no one but white men. After the biopic and powerful story of Martin Luther King Jr., by Ava Duverney [Selma], there was no doubt in anyone's mind that Duverney deserved at least the consideration for nomination, but that did not come. [The Theory of Everything] the story of Steven Hawkings, on the other hand, has received 10 nominations from the Oscars, a film that was ranked by highly acclaimed film critics Rotten Tomatoes at 79% and 85% audience approval as opposed to Selma's 98% by the critics and 87% audience approval. 

Is it fair to surmise that the story of Steven Hawkings of more pressing importance to the Caucasian "elite" of the Oscars as opposed to the story of the civil rights leader whose life was taken for promoting peace and unity throughout America?