15 Great Black Performances Completely Overlooked By The Oscars
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Deron Dalton
Forest Whitaker, Bird
The Academy Awards would later make it up to Whitaker by not only nominating, but choosing him as the winner for the Best Actor Oscar in 2007 for The Last King of Scotland. But the Academy always do that! They snub actors then they try to make it up to them later — there’s a lot of awarding the actor as a career achievement instead of quality of the best performance. But Whitaker’s performance in Bird should’ve been all the right formulas for the Oscars: biopic, real-life musician and drug addiction. But the Oscars passed.
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