- Keith David, The Thing, 1981. Holder, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes, Ernie Hudson, Carl Weathers were all up for Childs – and whitey David won! TK Carter was the token black as Nauls. Relax, there was a Britoken as well. And not Donald Pleasence, as usual with director John Carpenter: Donald Moffat. However, the question was not whether Childs was black or white – but human or alien. Unless you paid attention to the final scene…
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