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When film director Rod Lurie ran into some fellow Academy of Arts and members Sciences last month at a deli in Studio City - Hollywood veterans who, like him, would help decide the nominees for the Oscar for " best film "- he spoke" Straight Outta Compton ", the highest grossing film of a black director history.

Lurie thought it was one of the best films of the year. But the other members - all white men, aged 70 and up - had not voted for him; in fact, they had not even seen. Only one man had tried to see him, but stopped halfway through, rejecting the rap biopic critically acclaimed as "too strong."

These men selected highest honor of the American film, along with a group that looks almost exactly like themselves - branch of directors of the academy. Composed by Lurie and many of the most celebrated filmmakers of the nation, the group is 89 percent male and 84 percent white, and about half are older than 60, a Washington Post analysis found.

"The truth is that the members of the Academy movies that have to do with the heroism of the African American community or the history of blacks as a slave '12 years' are, because what interests them," Lurie said a Israeli-American director whose work includes "The Contender" and AMC's "Hell on Wheels". "What is not interested in the experience of contemporary culture or black black. A film like" Straight Outta Compton 'has no chance. "

Anger has again wrapped the Oscar, known through the social-media movement #OscarsSoWhite, has focused heavily on the delivery of prizes surprising similarity in screen age, gender and race: The 20 nominations Oscar acting, for example, have gone to white actors for two consecutive years.

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