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Many people in the movie are angry that Hollywood and the movie are run by "old white men". People complained after the Oscar came out last Thursday because all 20 of the actors in with a of winning an Oscar are white. In , there are no women in the directing or writing . The Los Angeles Times carried out a in 2012 on who the members of the Academy are. The members are the people who choose the men and women who are nominated for an Oscar. The LA Times survey found that the of the academy were 94 per cent white, largely , with an average age of 62. Critics say this means there is too little diversity in the Oscars.

Civil rights Al Sharpton was one of the critics of the Academy. He complained that: "The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains - the you get, the whiter it gets." He added that: "The lack of in [the] Oscar nominations is []." He said it was that one of the movies nominated for this year's 'Best Picture' award, 'Selma,' was about racism, but none of the actors in Selma nor any non-white actors in other movies were up for an . Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy, said the do their best to nominate the best people, regardless of their colour or . However, she did say that she hoped Hollywood would become more .

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