Watch: Mark Kermode Takes At Look This Year's Oscar Oversights In 5-Minute Video

As the #Oscarssowhite movement and the ongoing discussion of diversity in Hollywood continues, we as a moviegoing community are forced to consider the ramifications of representation: which stories get told, and why. Indeed, more people are talking about the Oscar nods this year than ever before. What’s been recognized — and more importantly, those who the Academy has failed to recognize — have been subject to a great deal of scrutiny within the critical community in particular (much of it has also spilled out onto the Twitter-sphere, but that’s to be expected). Among these voices is Mark Kermode, the British film critic who takes a good, hard look at this year’s nominations in a new episode of “Kermode Uncut.”

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“Business as usual” is how Kermode described this year’s nominations and in many respects, he’s sadly right. While a handful of the major nominations are somewhat...