15 Great Black Performances Completely Overlooked By The Oscars
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Deron Dalton
Derek Luke, Antwone Fisher
This was a major breakthrough performance! If you didn’t know who Derek Luke was before this film (like me) you knew after you’d seen it. That’s how touching Luke’s performance is in this film. But being such a young (black) actor the Academy once again passed. I will say this, male performers have a harder time earlier in their careers to win Oscars — let alone get nominated. Actors have to pay their dues first, but younger actresses fair better with the Academy. What a double standard-like, sexist system of voting for the winners let alone the nominees.
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