Will SMITH boycott OSCARS

Will Smith has mentioned that his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, announced she will not be attending the Oscars.

“My wife’s not going”.

During an appearance on U.S. TV show Good Morning America, he explains “I’m going to the Knicks (New York Knicks) game”. In the interview he says after hearing Pinkett-Smith’s opinion and stance on this issue he was happy to be married to a woman who stands so firmly for what she believes in and appreciated the push to be part of the solution and not the problem. Chris Rock took to Twitter to call the Oscars “The White BET Awards”, and Boone Isaacs expressed her disappointment in the lack of diversity among the nominees for the major categories.

Speaking at Wednesday’s National Television Awards in London, Dustin Hoffman said the all-white line-up was an example of the “subliminal racism” that exists throughout American society.

The Academy’s board of governors unanimously approved a series of reforms late Thursday, including limiting members’ voting status to 10 years, diversifying leadership and doubling the number of female and minority members by 2020.

“I do support the Oscar Ban movement’s position that the nominations do not reflect the diversity of our community”.

Others, like Oscar winners George Clooney and Lupita Nyong’o, have called for change but have signalled no intention to stay at home.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences faced a similar critique last year after “Selma” was snubbed; but this year, black actors and directors who worked on numerous films received considerable awards buzz, including Smith for his star turn in “Concussion”.

It was also reported that the awards show is expected to have lower ratings because of what happened a year ago.

Ruffalo, who is white, is a best supporting actor nominee for playing an investigative journalist in Catholic Church abuse probe “Spotlight”.

Davis, nominated for the 2011 race drama The Help, echoed previous comments from Whoopi Goldberg when she said the diversity deficit spread wider than the Oscars, to the entire “Hollywood movie-making system”. According to a 2015 Annenberg study of the top 100 box office films in each year from 2007 to 2014, white characters make up 73 percent of speaking roles while blacks make up 12.5 percent.

Smith said America’s diversity was one of its strength, and should be reflected in film. But plenty of far more rational voices have spoken up about these lily-white Academy Awards, and they’ve made some very cogent points. For Once, (Maybe) I Would Like The Media To Ask All The White Nominees And Studio Heads How They Feel About Another All White Ballot.