2015 Oscar nominees list lacks color; filled with heroes, fairytales and veteran actors
buzzz worthy. . . Niel Patrick Harris will host the 87th Annual Oscars. Announced in a live news conference from Hollywood early this morning, "Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Birdman" received the most nominations for the 87th Oscars with nine a piece. Most of the actors and actresses nominated have been around for a long, long time (Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, for example), while some fresher faces made the list (such as Marion Cotillard and Rosamund Pike.) Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs was accompanied by a few actors in announcing the 27 categories starting at the crack of dawn, 5:30 A.M., PST. For the rest of the day movie fans and the rest of Hollywood have pondered the puzzling outcome of this year's nominees that does not include any Blacks and few women. Conspicuously absent from the 2015 Oscar nominations is the diversity factor. That leaves "Selma," one of the most critically accla...