A biographical indie film in which a five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, is adopted by an Australian couple and sets out to find his lost family 25 years later. Lion was a critical hit nominated for six Oscars.
A 2016 American romantic musical comedy-drama film about a musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. La La Land was nominated for 14 Oscars and won six.
A biographical drama telling the story of Jackie Onassis after the 1963 assassination of her husband John F. Kennedy released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Jackie was nominated for three Oscars.
An American indie drama which follows a man who looks after his teenage nephew after his brother dies. Manchester by the Sea was nominated for six Oscars and won two.
An American indie coming-of-age drama following a man's exploration of sexuality & identity in three stages of his life. Moonlight became the first film with an all-black cast and first LGBT film to win the Best Picture Oscar.
A biographical drama about African American female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race. It was nominated for three Oscars.
An American epic space opera film from Lucasfilm and Disney Studios Motion, set immediately before the events of the original Star Wars film. It was nominated for two Oscars.
An American sci-fi film where a linguistics professor is tasked with interpreting the language of alien visitors after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world. It won one Oscar and was nominated for seven.
An 2016 American superhero film featuring the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
An American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.Below is a chart visualizing the diversity of 10 popular movies of 2016. Some were celebrated for their perceived diversity, but upon further investigation we discovered that representation may not be as diverse as it seems.
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