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Diversity played a prominent role in Monday’s announcement of the 2021 Oscar nominees.

Nine actors of color were nominated in all four actor categories, setting a new Oscar record.

Nominees include Viola Davis and Andra Day for Best Actress; Steven Yeun, Riz Ahmed and Chadwick Boseman for best actor; LaKeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya and Leslie Odom Jr. for Best Supporting Actor; and Youn Yuh-jung for Best Supporting Actress.

The Oscars sparked a huge backlash after every acting nominee was white in 2015 and 2016, a controversy known as #OscarsSoWhite.

Last year, Harriet star Cynthia Erivo was the only black actor to receive a nomination.

On Monday, Yeun became the first Asian-American artist to receive a nomination for best actor. He plays Minari as a Korean immigrant who moves his family to rural Arkansas to open a farm there. Youn, who plays the grandmother in the film, is the first South Korean artist to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Ahmed, who plays the role of a drummer losing his hearing in Sound of Metal, is also nominated for Best Actor, marking the first time that two artists of Asian descent have been finalists in the category in a single year.

Stanfield and Kaluuya are both nominated for Judas and the Black Messiah, a drama about an FBI informant who gets close to Black Panther president Fred Hampton.

Leslie Odom Jr., who plays singer Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami …, about a fictional encounter between icons, is also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

Davis and Boseman were nominated for Best Actress and Best Actor respectively for My Raineys Black Bottom, a drama about a controversial recording session in the 1920s.

Day, who plays the titular jazz icon in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, is also nominated for Best Actress.

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