The lack of diversity in 2024’s Academy Award winners astounded me. I was absolutely appalled by the fact that Barbie was nominated alongside one of the most unique films of the 21st century, American Fiction. Several critics hail Barbie as being a revolutionary reimagining of feminism. However, I observed It as a capitalist celebration of the white, heteronormative, able-bodied, standards of beauty that Americans hold, clearly personified by its leading actors, Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie. On the other hand, I thought that American Fiction, starring Jeffery Wright and Sterling K.Brown brilliantly satirized the fact that Black writers are put into stylistic boxes by white audiences. Therefore, I do not understand how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences categorized these two movies as being of the same quality.
