to talk about the Academy Awards.

The nominations just got announced today,

and, uh, everyone's excited

because it looks like Leonardo DiCaprio

might actually get the Oscar that he deserves!

Come on, Leo!

We're behind you.

But, uh, while this might be the year

that the model-dating environmentalist

finally gets his due,

other marginalized miron... minorities

haven't made the same level of progress.

I'm specifically talking about black people.

For more, please welcome Roy Wood, Jr., everybody.

(cheering, applause)

Trevor, you know, man, this whole thing is messed up

because it's the same thing every year--

great movies made by black people come out.

Everybody goes and sees the movie.

The movie gets great reviews.

And then then the nominations come out

and we spend the whole day feeling like... like...

Like black people. -Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah.

Yeah. I hear you, Roy. I hear you. You know...

uh, the big question is, though, did any black movies

really deserve to get nominated this year?

Let me ask you. What did you like this year?

Oh, that was easy-- for me,

I mean, Creed was one of my favorite movies.

-Oh, yes. Yeah. -Yeah, I mean, Michael B. Jordan was fantastic.

Ryan Coogler did an amazing job directing it.

Oh, Tessa Thompson? Tessa Thompson was good.

Yeah, and you know who got nominated?

Sylvester Stallone, the only white dude in the whole movie.

Okay, okay, but, Roy, uh,

let's say the writers of Straight Outta Compton.

They got nominated for best screen-screenplay.

You mean these writers.

That movie was about gangsta rap

and they still found a way to nominate white people.

Straight Outta Compton?

More like Straight Outta Cornell.

O... Yeah, uh... Okay, but, look, Roy,

let-let's be honest, let's be honest.

It's easy to point fingers,

but you and I, we both know

that the problem isn't the Oscars.

I know.

-You know who's to blame. -Yeah.

White people.

N... No, no. No, no, Roy. No, no.

You know who's really to blame?

The media?

Roy. It's not the media.

You know who it is.

Black people.

That's right, Roy.

Black people are to blame,

And not just any black people, but black filmmakers.

It's time for black filmmakers

to rise up and admit that they know the only way

to win Best Picture is by pandering to white Oscar voters.

Yeah, that's right. We know the rules.

If we want to win an Oscar we have to make a movie

-about black people being oppressed. -Yup.

I called out these past... I'll call out these past nominees

and you tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind

-when I call out these movies. -Okay, cool.

-Django. -Angry slave.

-Selma. -Still angry about the slavery thing.

12 Years A Slave.

-Well, I mean, s-slave for 12 years.

Exactly. White people love feeling bad

about how they treated black people,

so to make a hit black movie you need a whip,

a fire hose or a Negro spiritual.

(bleep). No, no, you know what, this is so true.

Now that I think about it,

you know, the only black prominent person

who got nominated for an Oscar today--

that was The Weekend. Yeah.

For that Fifty Shades of Grey song,

which is basically a movie about a rich white guy

who likes whipping people.

Exactly. I rest my case.

And here's the thing--

white people know how to get that Oscar attention.

They do what they got to do.

They gain weight. They lose weight.

-Or they get really ugly. -Exactly.

White people play to their strength,

and black filmmakers need to understand that, man.

I... Look, I hear you there, Roy,

but I think it sucks

that if black people want Academy Awards

we can't just make movies about anything but slavery.

No, no, no, no, no, no. We can make any movie we want.

We just have to trick white people

into thinking the movie is about slavery.

What do all award-winning slave movies have?

They have scenes like this.

(humming a tune)

See, man, you put that humming underneath that, man...

Dude, Straight Outta Compton

would've been nominated five times

if they replaced the gangsta rap with spirituals like that.

They want NWA?

Let's give them NWA.

(man humming a tune)

-That was, uh... -Yeah.

-That was deep, Roy. -Yeah.

You know what you're feeling right now?

That's the slavery salts I sprinkled on that movie.

You got to drizzle that on there if you want to win.

Look at Creed. It's a great boxing film.

Coulda got an Oscar nod

if they'd have put a sprinkle of a little slavery in there.

ANNOUNCER: His great-grandfather was a slave,

(whoops)

And now he has to fight for his freedom.

CREED: I been fighting my whole life.

ANNOUNCER: But he can't do it alone.

Yeah, I want to talk to you about training me.

Hey, I-I'm sorry your great-grandfather was a slave.

ANNOUNCER: To honor his ancestors he has to fight

every white man alive.

-His journey will be dangerous. -People get killed.

ANNOUNCER: But his destination is dignity.

A-Again, kid, you know,

I'm sorry your great-grandfather was a slave.

ANNOUNCER: This fall, you can't run

from 400 years of oppression.

You have to stand up and fight.

ROCKY: I just want to reiterate,

I-I'm sorry your great-grandfather was a slave.

Sprinkle that slavery, man.