LONDON (AP) — Academy Award-nominated British actress Charlotte Rampling has entered the debate over a lack of diversity at the Oscars, saying the calls for a boycott are “racist to white people.” All this year’s acting nominees are white. Rampling, 69, told France’s Europe 1 radio Friday that, while it’s impossible to know for sure, […]
Just when you thought Stacey Dash couldn’t possibly get any more “out there,” that’s exactly where she went. Dash is doubling down on her critique of BET after the network’s response to her suggestion that Black History Month and the BET network itself should be eliminated if equality and integration are ever to be achieved. […]
Bob Johnson may have moved on to other things beyond BET, but as he sees it, his status as the network’s founder makes him suitable to comment on the diversity issue with the Oscars and Hollywood overall. In an interview with TheWrap‘s Anita Bennett, Johnson addressed the current situation with diversity as he expressed how […]
Music icon Quincy Jones was asked to present an Academy Award alongside Common and Pharrell Williams at the Oscar ceremony next month, but he said on Wednesday that he’ll participate only if he can speak at the ceremony about the lack of diversity in Hollywood and among the nominees. Jones joins a growing list of […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith says he will not attend the Academy Awards next month, joining his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and others in protest against two straight years of all-white acting nominees. Best supporting actor nominee Mark Ruffalo also says he’s considering skipping the ceremony. “My wife’s not going. It would be awkward […]
Whoopi Goldberg says she’s not going to boycott the 2016 Academy Awards because of the lack of diversity, but she will “continue to bitch as I have all year round because I’m tired of seeing movies where no one is represented except a bit of the population, not all of it,” she told her “The […]
The #Oscarssowhite movement gained major traction over the past few days with big-name celebrities weighing in on the controversy.
Rev. Al Sharpton talks about his plans to boycott this year’s Oscars in light of the lack of diversity. “Out of 20 slots you’re going to tell me that no one is worthy of an nomination? We need to tune out. We need to watch something else that night. If the ratings go down, the […]
Alexis Arquette, the transgender member of the acting Arquette family that includes recent Oscar winner Patricia, as well as David and Rosanna, posted on her Facebook page today that the Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are both gay and should be outed. Her Facebook post reads: (Warning: explicit language and sexual references) When Jada […]
“Straight Outta Compton” was nominated for best picture at the Critics’ Choice Awards, but the N.W.A. biopic was snubbed from the picture and acting categories in at the Oscars. Co-star O’Shea Jackson Jr., who plays his father Ice Cube, told USA Today he didn’t really “stress on” the Oscar omission at the Critics’ Choice carpet. […]
LONDON (AP) — A lack of diversity in films and television is not just an American problem, according to actor Idris Elba. Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is facing boycott calls and promising change after nominating an all-white roster of performers for the Oscars for the second year running. Elba, the London-born […]
I have breaking news to share with you about the Oscars. The president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, released a statement last night which reads in part, “I’d like to acknowledge the wonderful work of this year’s nominees. While we celebrate their extraordinary achievements, I am both […]
