Or an even bigger one. 
There has been a push to try and get stunt work recognised in the past, but the Academy has been pretty hesitant to recognise it. They feel that it comes under the heading of production design and that there is a disparity between what you see on the screen and how it was actually shot that doesn't really justify recognition as an additional award. For example, when the Underground train comes crashing through the roof in Skyfall, the whole thing was mounted on train tracks fixed to the ceiling to safely guide it into the position Chris Corbould - the film's production designer - wanted it to finish in. On the other hand, the pre-title sequence features Daniel Craig's stunt double crashing a motorbike to catapault himself onto a moving train, leaping from the extended arm of an excavator into a train carriage, and riding dirt bikes across the rooftops of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar. While this was also filmed inder controlled conditions, it's far more apt to call this stunt work, but because the film contains both, it would be hard to justify giving it an award because the Academy might be forced to give them the awards for Best Production Design and Best Stunt Work.
Funny how many people only seem to care about the actors being discriminated against at the Oscars, with almost no recognition at all for the writers, editors and cinematographers, the people that actually make the film. Directors can be an exception. You could have an ensemble cast of the biggest names in Hollywood in your film, but if the film crew was a bunch of clueless high school students, it would still be a POS.
I'd like to add that I even think stunts people should have an award available to them. Some stunts coordinators and stunt performers can be quite creative in their roles. Some will even put in more realistic performances for the sake of the film, at the cost of disfigurement, concussions, and more.
The Oscars are on par with the Rock and Roll hall of fame as far as biggest joke of who wins/ gets in goes. They both are a farce. Don't get me started on the rock and roll hall of fame lol.
My argument is that there is no argument. Pulling out a couple of years of data that don't follow the longer trend to prove a point is misleading and meaningless. Oh look, it's snowing outside, no global warming here!! Plenty of good actors never get nominated, plenty of good actors never win. It's not a fair contest and it never was. It's a popularity contest, it's politics, members vote for who they like most or their friends or they trade votes with other people to ensure their films or the people whom they work with or for, win. These things are well known and have been going on since the Academy Awards were first given out nearly 90 years ago. Statistically, blacks are as successful in the last 15 years as their proportion of the population in the United States would predict that they would be.
You're right. When will society give up the ghost and give equal rights to rich, white men?
In the context of this thread and his post, your response makes no sense whatsoever.
Huf. Who really cares? I follow the Golden Globes, which, although it was mostly won by whites this year, actually gave the awards to people who deserved them.
