q news: Diversity wins at SAG, Sundance awards

q producer Mitch Pollock scans the latest arts and entertainment headlines to keep us in the know.

Today, diversity reigns supreme at several awards shows, as #OscarsSoWhite dominates the discussion ahead of the Academy Awards.

• The 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday featured several people of colour among its list of winners, including Queen Latifah, Uzo Aduba, Viola Davis and Idris Elba (twice).
• Historical slave rebellion drama The Birth of a Nation, a movie with a black director and a mostly black cast, took both the U.S. drama grand jury prize and the Audience Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

In other news:

• Another film earning attention at the Sundance festival, Swiss Army Man, is being described as "The Citizen Kane of fart joke movies." Check out film critic Jason Gorber's discussion about the film on q from Friday here. 
• Look out, David Attenborough: a change.org petition for Snoop Dogg to narrate full episodes of Planet Earth is gaining steam after being featured on Jimmy Kimmel's spoof segment "Plizzanet Earth." Check out Snoop's reaction to an encounter between a group of otters and a crocodile below.