Trevor Noah has added his voice to celebrities criticising the 2020 Oscar nominations for a lack of diversity, specifically in the Best Director category.
On The Daily Show, host Trevor plays clip of presenter Issa Rae announcing the nominees for Best Director and ending off with her saying “congratulations to those men”.
The South African comedian reacts to the clip, saying: “Wow, Issa Rae damn. You know you’re in trouble when someone throws shade by congratulating you.”
He continued: “And I’ll be honest, I get why she said that because those aren’t just all male directors, they are all very male movies.
“Like if you take out Parasite, women probably only have 10 minutes of dialogue in all the other films combined”.
Trevor then addressed Greta Gerwig being snubbed for best director for Little Women.
“It’s really strange it was nominated for six awards including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, two acting nominations but then somehow Greta Gerwig wasn’t nominated for Best Director.
“How the hell did that happen? Two people were like, ‘Yeah, what an amazing movie.’ ‘Yeah, did you know the movie directed itself?’”
TONIGHT: Congrats to “Little Women” for directing itself! pic.twitter.com/scD3kL9OCY
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After the announcement of this year’s Oscars nominations, the Academy along with the BAFTAs have faced widespread criticism from critics and the general movie going public for the lack of diversity.
This included the BAFTAs having no people of colour nominated in the major acting categories.