Oscars 2016 Boycott "Jada Pinkett Smith"

Oscars 2016 Boycott "Jada Pinkett Smith"

She said filmmaker Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith, they will not attend the Academy Awards ceremony next month because the candidates mostly white.

Among those overlooked NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton was for the best film and Will Smith Award for best actor in a movie NFL Concussion.

He said his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith in a video message on Facebook to "beg for recognition, or even ask, reduces the dignity and reduces the power."

Peter Bowes reports.

President of the Academy Awards works on the lack of diversity of candidates. "

Boone Isaacs said it was "conducting a review of the employment of our membership."

President of the Academy Awards Cheryl Boone Isaacs is taking action to "change the make-up" of its membership, after Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith refused to attend those candidates mostly white.

Boone Isaacs "outstanding work" of the candidates praised but said it was "sad" for the lack of diversity.

He told me on Instagram that he "can not support" "White Lily" awards show.

And Jada Pinkett Smith said in a video message on Facebook that they would not attend the awards ceremony.

Boone Isaacs added that "dramatic steps" were being taken, saying: "In the coming days and weeks we will review our membership recruitment in order to achieve diversity for much needed in our class in 2016 and beyond." I was amazed 

Lee in "forty actors white within two years," nominated

6,300 members, made up of people from the film industry, the vote on which was nominated for the Oscars each year.

"This is a difficult but important conversation, and it's time to make significant changes," she said.

"As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the past four years. But change does not come as fast as we would like. We need to do more, better and more quickly."

It said such a move would not be "unprecedented" for the Academy, in the 60s and 70s have been recruiting younger members and the mandate of the day for the inclusion of "sex, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation."

Jada Pinkett Smith: "begging for recognition ... it reduces the dignity and strength."

Boone Isaacs also has tried to make the show on February 28, more diverse, bringing in black comedian Chris Rock to host.

This is the second year in a row there was a boycott triggered by the list of candidates that are mostly white invitations.

The profile of Oscar voters:

 In 2012, the Los Angeles Times conducted a study to see how the Academy membership is diversity.

He spoke to reporters to thousands of academy members and their representatives to confirm the identities of more than 5,100 voters - more than 89% of the voting members.

The researchers found that:

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Among those overlooked Oscar nominations this year NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton was for the best film Benkt Smith and her husband Will Smith, for Best Actor in the film NFL Concussion.

Benkt Smith said: "begging for recognition, or even ask, reduces the dignity and reduces the force and we are the people of his dignity, and we are strong."

She told me and made their announcement on Martin Luther King Jr., a national holiday in the United States to remember the civil rights leader.

"Forty actors in two-and-white FLAVA not at all," he told me. "We can not act?!"

Hollywood trade paper occur anonymous wrapped for some Academy members, many of whom applauded comments Isaac. "

"They are not critical today," said one of the members of the Academy and former governor.

"They're disgusted."

Another member said: "The problem is not the make-up she nominations for the Academy, and more make-up in Hollywood."

Another said: "The irony is, if Hollywood is not open to diversity, then we are in real trouble as a country, because it is supposed to be a Hollywood liberal and open-minded."

"That is, the way you slice, it's a knee-jerk reaction," one member said that the wrap: but others were skeptical.

Speaking Radio 4 Today program on Tuesday, Doctor Colin McFarlane Representative of resolution for me not to attend the Oscars: "You have to be at the party to change the talk, but I completely understand the frustration - black actors of history being written.

"The game changed and I think it needs to be changed on both sides of the Atlantic - and Baftas and Academy Awards ceremony - and there must be a greater number of women.