In recent years, black characters have appeared in Westerns such as Posse, Unforgiven and Django Unchained.
In April, Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" was pulled from theaters on its opening day, with little explanation.
More recently, the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's award-winning slavery-era film Django Unchained featured Havens singing a version of Freedom.
Christoph Waltz is definitely in the running for his work in Django Unchained.
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Argo and Les Miserables won three Oscars apiece, with Django Unchained, Lincoln and Bond movie Skyfall receiving two awards each.
Tarantino won the original screenplay prize for Django Unchained, adding to the Oscar he won for writing Pulp Fiction in 1994.
Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning film Django Unchained has been cancelled in cinemas across China on its opening day due to "technical reasons".
Three big movies open Christmas day: Les Miserables, Django Unchained and the comedy Parental Guidance starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler.
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Executives at Sony Pictures were shocked earlier this month when Chinese authorities pulled "Django Unchained" from theaters the day it started playing.
It was instantly earmarked for inclusion on Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained soundtrack.
Film fans' favourite Quentin Tarantino also celebrated as he picked up the original screenplay Bafta for his western slavery epic, Django Unchained.
But don't count out Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"), Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained") or even Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master").
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Django Unchained was also nominated for original screenplay, sound editing and cinematography.
The latest additions join previously announced jurors including We Need To Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay and Django Unchained actor Christoph Waltz.
The US premiere of Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained has been called off in the wake of last week's shootings in a Connecticut school.
"Django Unchained" reportedly cut some violent scenes and had already been cleared by China's rigorous censors, who generally remove violence, sex and politically edgy content.
Quentin Tarantino had another successful week with his Oscar-nominated Django Unchained.
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Django Unchained is released in the UK on Friday 18 January.
The love shown "Amour" and "Beasts" meant that "Zero Dark Thirty, " "Django Unchained, " "Les Miserables" and "Argo" all fell short of expectations, particularly in the directing category.
Best Original Screenplay nominees are: Flight (John Gatins), Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal), Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino), Amour (Michael Haneke), and Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola).
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Christoph Waltz was a bit of a surprise winner in the Best Supporting Actor category for Django Unchained and Quentin Tarantino won for Best Original Screenplay for Django.
The Marvel film - released in the UK as Avengers Assemble - also beat Django Unchained, Skyfall, Ted and The Dark Knight Rises to win the best fight accolade.
Quentin Tarantino picked up the original screenplay award for "Django Unchained, " and Christoph Waltz was named best supporting actor for playing a loquacious bounty hunter in Tarantino's slave-revenge thriller.
Christoph Waltz won his second Oscar for best supporting actor in a Quentin Tarantino film, this time for playing a German bounty hunter in the slave revenge story Django Unchained.
However, a number of other high-profile awards contenders - among them Django Unchained, Les Miserables and Beasts of the Southern Wild - have been ruled ineligible for this year's prizes.
Other nominees in the PGA movie category were "Les Miserables, " "Zero Dark Thirty, " "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " "Django Unchained, " "Life of Pi, " "Moonrise Kingdom, " "Silver Linings Playbook, " and Skyfall.
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