‘Best Actor’ nominee Riz Ahmed touches on the importance of diversity in Hollywood Entertainment ‘Best Actor’ nominee Riz Ahmed touches on the importance of diversity in Hollywood Best Actor nominee Riz Ahmed recently sat down for a chat and candidly dished over the importance of having diversity in the Hollywood award pool. The actor got candid during an interview with MSNBC and started off by addressing his 2016 quip about no one resembling him in an audition room. He was quoted saying, “it’s really interesting because progress is sometimes not liner. If you kinda go back decades you had actors like Omar Sharif playing a lead role in epics and mainstream Hollywood.”