Lupita Nyong’o ‘disappointed’ by Oscar nominations

For the remainder of her three-minute video, Hubert insinuated that Pinkett-Smith’s proposed boycott of the Oscars is to spite the Academy because her husband did not get a nomination for his role in the film, “Concussion”.

“We can’t go to that old exhausted well – “Well, we can’t find any qualified candidates” – that’s B.S.”, he added. “We recognize the very real concerns of our community, and I so appreciate all of you who have reached out to me in our effort to move forward together”. We don’t have to agree, but it we’re better informed, we’re more receptive of what they have done.

The Rev. Al Sharpton vowed Tuesday to organize a national “tune out” of the Oscars for its failure for the second year in a row to nominate a single black actor or director for an award.

“This is a hard but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes”, she said.

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!”

“The academy has a problem”, Oyelowo said Monday night at an industry event in Los Angeles that honored Boone Isaacs. I am an Academy member and it doesn’t reflect me, and it doesn’t reflect this nation.

The diversity shutout spawned critics to start the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite to voice their disapproval, and on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday Monday, filmmaker Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith both announced in separate statements that they would be boycotting the February 28th ceremony. I would also make the argument, I don’t think it’s a problem of who you’re picking as much as it is: “How many options are available to minorities in film, particularly in quality films?” When producers are sitting around board rooms and deciding which films are going to be greenlit, they need to have open minds ensuring that stories that highlight the complexity and the diversity and the nuance of people of color, of the people of this country overall, are being shown on the big screen.

“Think about how many more African Americans were nominated”.

Gant says he will be watching the show this year because he wants to tune in to see what Chris Rock will say when he hosts.

“Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking for it, diminishes dignity and diminishes power, and we are a dignified people”.

“I think around 2004, certainly there were black nominees – like Don Cheadle, Morgan Freeman”, said Clooney. Nyong’o concluded her speech by telling the audience she hopes her “presence on your screens and in the magazines may lead you, young girl, on a similar journey”. Creed could have gotten nominations. She promised to review membership recruitment in the coming days and weeks.