The 2020 race for best-actress is far from over, so why does everyone assume that all the actresses of color are competing for one slot?
This is how a narrative gets entrenched: There are those who are in, and those who are fighting toin, and the implicit notion of a quota—the idea that there is one spot for “diversity”—becomes a way of not looking at the performances.
Let’s look at the four actors presumably competing for one spot. Lupita Nyong’o is an Oscar winner who received rave reviews for a movie that, when all is said and done, may well have outgrossed the other seven films on this list combined. Cynthia Erivo is a Tony-winning actor and singer who plays an important historical figure in a film that hasat the box office. Awkwafina stole her scenes in a comedy smash last year and has now pivoted to drama in one of the summer’s breakout indie successes.
A good personal narrative can do a great deal to smooth the road to an Oscar nomination, and all four of those narratives more than do the job—Woodard’s story alone practically embodies the last 40 years of the history of the struggle for representation for African American women in Hollywood. To be sure, there are also some great stories to tell in the putative “top” four—Zellweger’s comeback, Johansson’s quest for a first nomination—but they’re not necessarily any more compelling.
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