Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Discrimination at the Oscars: Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith want Oscars … – ABC Online

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In protest against the non- nomination black actors for the Oscars like the Afro-American Hollywood greats Spike Lee (58) and Jada Pinkett Smith (44) the ceremony boycott.

“To beg recognition or also just about to ask diminishes dignity and power “, the actress and wife said the two-time Oscar-nominated colleague Will Smith (47) on Monday in a Facebook video. “We are dignified people, and we are powerful.” Will Smith was this year like any other African American actors in the nominations empty handed.

been the director Lee, the awarded an honorary Oscar in the past year was signed with Instagram: “How is it possible that for the second year 20 candidates are white in the drama category in a row?” The real problem is not to look at the film award, but in the offices of the Hollywood studios. There will decide which films would be made.

The African-American president of the Academy Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, expressed on Monday in an announcement saddened by the lack of diversity among the nominees. She was heartbroken and frustrated, she wrote. The Academy enterprising dramatic steps to make their diverse membership. It is time for big changes. The 6,000 members of the Academy decide on Oscar nominations and winners.

The Oscars will be presented this year by the black comedian Chris Rock (49). On Monday, the birthday of the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King afro has been celebrated in the United States.

 

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