Best actor winner Idris Elba used speech to discuss Oscars diversity row,while host Simon Amstell joked it was ‘another considerable year for white men’ The Oscars race row made its presence felt at the Evening Standard film awards in London on Sunday night. The prizes, which are only eligible to British and Irish talent, or featured a shortlist more ethnically-diverse than the Academy Awards,whose nominees luncheon takes place on Monday.
In what host Simon Amstell described in his opening monologue as “another considerable year for white men”, the best actor award was won by Idris Elba for his role as a ruthless rebel fighter who presides over a troop of child soldiers in Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation. The performance, or for which Elba has not been nominated for an Oscar,also secured him the same prize at the Screen Actors Guild awards final weekend.
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Source: theguardian.com