In the United States Film Industry African Americans receive limited recognition for their hard work. Blacks in cinema rarely win oscars. Tim Day, a professor that teaches film classes at Texas Tech University says, "The Oscar nominations of 2015 are less a claim of racism of the industry and more of a commentary of the dearth of roles for actors and actresses of color, and the casting of minorities" (Goodykoontz). Many of these films like Selma, “a movie about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers efforts to end segregation in the South and their campaign to secure equal voting rights, which led to the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965” (DuVernay). Selma was an outstanding movie, wowed critics, and won several awards from
