Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith Call for an Oscar Boycott

Norman Weiss January 18, 2016, 7:00 pm

Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith call for an Oscar boycott

Lee, the recent recipient of an honorary Oscar, followed Smith in saying that he, too, would not be attending this year’s Academy Awards. Lee made his thoughts clear via an Instagram post: “How Is It Possible For The 2nd Consecutive Year All 20 Contenders Under The Actor Category Are White? And Let’s Not Even Get Into The Other Branches. 40 White Actors In 2 Years And No Flava At All. We Can’t Act?! WTF!!”

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