“This goes further than the Academy Awards”.
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Moore have also announced they will not attend the Oscars ceremony, scheduled for February 28.
Meanwhile, Snoop Dogg won’t be tuning in to watch.
On Saturday, Rock joked about the nominations tweeting “The #Oscars”. This is a hard but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes.
For the few minority actors and filmmakers who are institutionally recognized, however, the industry puts them in a precarious position. “I am an Academy member and it doesn’t reflect me, and it doesn’t reflect this nation”, Oyelowo was quoted by TheWrap.com as saying in aHollywood gala speech on Monday.
“Especially the last two years when there has been extraordinary performances by black actors”. I mean, how many times has he played Rocky Balboa? But, How Is It Possible For The 2nd Consecutive Year All 20 Contenders Under The Actor Category Are White? “And Let’s Not Even Get Into The Other Branches”, Lee wrote. At the end of the day, Keaton – who has been on a roll lately, scoring a best actor nod a year ago for “Birdman” – seems poised to capture a statue in the future. We Can’t Act?! WTF!! I ended up actually with this film coming out right now 11 of my people who have a producer title on it of the 11, eight are women.
Packer added: “It’s a complete embarrassment to say that the heights of cinematic achievement have only been reached by white people”. If Someone Has Addressed This And I Missed It Then I Stand Mistaken. As I See It, The Academy Awards Is Not Where The “Real” Battle Is. It’s in the executive office of the Hollywood studios and TV and cable networks. The Gate Keepers. Those With “The Green Light” Vote. He invoked a show-tune from the Broadway hit “Hamilton”, “The Room Where It Happens”, with the lyrics “I wanna be in the room where it happens, the room where it happens”, where key decisions are made.
The truth is that people of color deserve to be recognized along with their white counterparts.
Jada Pinkett Smith, Spike Lee and Idris Elba are among the other stars to speak out about the issue, with many calling for this year’s host Chris Rock to step down. Hugely successful movies about black lives like Creed and Straight Outta Compton earned nominations only for their white screenwriters (“Compton”) and white co-star (Sylvester Stallone in “Creed”). “He’s just going to do what he’s wants to do and I support him either way”.
And the Oscar for the least diverse awards ceremony goes to … well, you can probably guess.
The Revenant director Alejandro G. Inarritu tells The Sun newspaper, “I think it is a shame…” The duo also took home multiple awards in 2014 for “Birdman” and 2013 for “Gravity”.
“As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the last four years”.
London-born Ajala told 5 News: “If there weren’t so many successful black actors you could understand… but we have many black actors not being represented properly”.
‘It’s just self-contrived because her hubby didn’t get a nomination’.
Asked if he supports the boycott, he said: “I do”.
Academy President Boone Isaacs was right to express her frustration with the nominations this year. “I never used the word boycott”.
There has also been a lack of female nominees for “behind the camera” categories – with the worst offender being the Best Director award, which hasn’t had a female victor since 2010. This is actual proof that people within the industry are exhausted of not being recognized for their hard work. Major movie studios hardly invest in films starring and made by minorities.
He says that that is not often true and if it were it’s not the reason why he crossed the Atlantic to secure roles in Hollywood.
There is a serious deficit in roles created for minority groups and a need for race neutral casting.
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In an Instagram video captioned “F**k da Oscars (sic)”, he said: “All these great movies and all this great s**t y’all keep stealing from us…F**k you!”
