“What the problem is the people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that – that movie doesn’t come to you because the idea is that there’s no place for black movies”, she concluded. “I’m going to the game”.
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The Revenant director Alejandro G. Inarritu tells The Sun newspaper, “I think it is a shame… Our diversity is our strength and our diversity is what makes the culture so interesting here”.
The two-time Academy Award victor pointed out some of the actors he believes deserved nominations, including the cast of Creed, Will Smith and Idris Elba, who many believed would get a Best Actor nod for his performance in Beasts of No Nation.
Actress Whoopi Goldberg weighed into the controversy on ABC’s “The View” over growing calls for people to boycott the Oscars of a lack of diversity, questioning why it was an issue now when there has always been a lack of diversity in Hollywood.
The Academy Awards aka “Oscars” is an annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry.
Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs released a statement Monday about the “lack of inclusion” at the 2016 Oscars, saying that she is “heartbroken and frustrated”. “It is certainly a wake up call”.
George Clooney, in comments to Variety, said that after earlier progress by the industry, “you feel like we’re moving in the wrong direction”.
“It goes further than the Academy Awards”.
After three consecutive years of having the same conversation brought up surrounding Hollywood’s biggest award show, this may very well be the year that finally pushes the Academy members to give more recognition to actors of color. But like I said, over the past eight years, we’ve had a president who is black, who gets his funding mainly from Hollywood, the elite liberals. She has been arguing that there are more important social issues to be advocating change for rather than just focusing on the whitewash happening with the Oscar Nominations. “Just as the National Basketball Association is a black industry”. She told the Insider in 2013 that Smith did “some heinous, frightful things to me – they were like bad kids, Will and Alfonso [Ribiero], especially Alfonso”.
Jada Pinkett Smith has also refused to attend because of the number of white nominees, saying in a video message on Facebook that people of colour should disregard the awards. “So I never used the word boycott…”
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A 2012 Los Angeles Times study found that the academy was 94 percent white and 77 percent male.
