And who done that? and even there box office affecting oscar would make more sense than international. Also someone else being off-topic isn't a sound defense to do the same, it's just blame shift

That wouldn't still be genuine because the ancient Egyptians are an extinct people. Modern Egyptians consists largely of Arabs who came into the region thousands of years later than the era depicted in that movie.

Oh come on, you guys, pay attention. Black people acted in movies last year, believe it or not. He's saying, "instead of just picking all the white people, you can pick some minorities that acted well too". Seems clear enough. Not only white people are good actors.

Stupid Will Smith, and most of these social justice activist, don't realize that Hollywood has already adjusted heavily to minority issues.

It's been known for quite a while now that black actors, among other minority groups, are often cast in movies only to fill an unofficial minority quota, to fulfill the politically correct criteria. The new Star Wars is a good example of that. The term "token black guy" describes this custom where a black actor is placed in a TV show or movie just to appease minorities and their advocats.

Nowadays we even see at least one black actor artificially placed in nearly all Medieval and Ancient settings, even if there actually didn't exist any black people in reality in those contexts.

Also, which sadly the audience is totally unaware of, nowadays Hollywood deliberately casts black actors to play relatively moral characters and very rarely do they play roles that are meant to evoke negative feelings in the audience. The despicable guy is always white. This is brainwash.

sounds more like paranoia to me

You're saying that the academy deliberately made sure that no black actor were nominated?

No, I'm just saying that casting modern day Egyptians isn't the obvious solution.

I think they should deliberately choose among Hollywood actors that have the right, authentic appearance - among Arab, Jewish, Latino and mixed black/white actors and among the few white that have a similar appearance.

Something like this for the male lead actors for Gods of Egypt:

Look at all the diversity here, no problems here ... 

And lol no Arab actor is getting cast in anything major unless he's playing a terrorist. 

lol I bet someone made that table to show how unfair the casting was between whites and minorities.

"Egyptian thief" and "Egyptian lower class civilian", I lol'd so hard.

(obviously that table is cherry picked and doesn't represent Hollywood movies in general)