It is not about the awards but rather about storylines and main characters that Hollywood runs with. Most storylines will feature a white male as the lead character and a white woman as eye-candy, and absolutely avoid people older than 30.

This is NOT a "general" thing, but rather Hollywood has specific guidelines to storylines to AVOID non-white people and keep number of women to bare minimum, or intentionally white-wash characters taken from books or real-life incidents.

For example, in the movie 21, it was 3 Asian men who rigged the casino, but the movie showed 3 white guys. In Martian, the Indian characters' name was Vikram, but they changed it to "Vincent" in the movies. Similarly, the new movie coming up about gay protests, the real-life person was trans woman and black, but the script was changed to make the character young, white, male and gay. Or the other movie, where I think Emma Stone plays a character supposed to be Pacific Islander. Or in Harry Potter, Lavender Brown was black when she was a background character, but as soon as she became the main character, they changed to a White actress.

Even if a story get's through the "script rejection" phase, there is still an "additional screening" done with an audience of young white men, and they are asked if they were able to "identify" with the main character, such as Legend of Korra running into issues because the main character was a dark-skinned woman.

This is NOT new-age political correctness, it is pretty "Old-School" discrimination in story-lines that people are pointing out to.

One might think money/business justifies this, but then, in independent media like Youtube as well as Indie-music scenes, Asians, Indians and Blacks are immensely popular. So t