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Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris opened last night's awards with a jab at the Academy: "Tonight, we honor Hollywood's best and whitest—uh, brightest."
Earlier this month, Vox published an infographic that makes the lack of diversity at the very top of the Academy Awards hard to ignore. Out of the 245 nominees to vote on the 2014 awards, only 2% were women of color. 26% were white women, and 64% of them were white men. Toggle between categories below to see the glaring disparity.
In 2014, 72% of the Academy's voters—the people who select which films and actors or actresses actually win the awards—were male, and 90% of them were white. That's slightly better than 2013, when 76% were men and a whopping 93% were white.
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