Spike Lee Joins Oscars Boycott Over Lack of Diversity
Spike Lee is putting the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag into action by announcing his boycott of the Academy Awards on Monday. The acclaimed director, who received an honorary Oscar at the Governor's Awards in November, announced on Instagram that he'd be skipping the ceremony next month due to the Academy nominating no people of color in any of its four major acting categories for the second year in a row. "We cannot support it and [I] mean no disrespect to my friends, host Chris Rock and producer Reggie Hudlin, president [Cheryl Boone] Isaacs and the Academy," Lee wrote. "But, how is it possible for the second consecutive year all 20 contenders under the acting category are white? And let's not even get into the other branches. Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all. We can't act?! WTF!!" Lee goes on to explain that the root of the problem is that there are even fewer minorities behind the camera in Hollywood than in front of it. Until ther...