Another Oscar ceremony, the 82nd in fact, has come and gone. This year at The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, we saw Sandra Bullock take home the best actress Oscar for her role in The Blind Side, where she plays a smart, strong, rich, attractive mother, with a loving family, who takes in a fat, poor, stupid, black boy and turn his life around.

Also on Oscar night, Mo’Nique won best supporting actress for playing a fat, violent, mother on welfare, who looks on, while her partner commits incest on their daughter.

In the 82 years of Oscar ceremonies only five black actresses have won an Oscar:

1. Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind (1939) for playing a maid.
2. Whoopi Goldberg for her comic turn in Ghost (1990).
3. Jennifer Hudson for playing a singer in Dreamgirls (2006).
4. And of course, who can forget Halle Berry, the first black actress to win a best actress Oscar…for Monsters Ball (2001)? In the film Halle’s husband (P Diddy) is on death row, and she sleeps with his prison guard.
5. And now, Mo’Nique in that role above from Precious (2010).

Is it just me, or can anyone else see an unsavoury pattern emerging? Maybe there’s a simple explanation.

1. There are not that many stories and films with black characters?
2. The Sandra Bullock parts aren’t being written for black actresses?
3. Black actresses aren’t being cast for roles like Sandra Bullock’s in The Blind Side?

Whatever the explanation, something needs to change. I for one am sick and tired of films where black characters are portrayed as victims, criminals, entertainers, and sexual objects! But somehow I don’t think that things are about to change any time soon. Do you?

The Blind Side has made US box-office history, becoming the first, solely female-led film to rake in more than $200m (£125m). Sandra Bullock has also won the best actress Critic’s Choice Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and the People’s Choice. I’m clearly alone on this.

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