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Spike Lee, Jada Pinkett-Smith Boycott 2016 Oscars
Spike Lee, Jada Pinkett-Smith Boycott 2016 Oscars
Spike Lee, Jada Pinkett-Smith Boycott 2016 Oscars
For the second year in a row, every actor nominated in all four acting categories for the Academy Awards is a white person. All 20 nominees for Best Actor and Actress and Best Supporting Actor and Actress are white people, reigniting the Twitter hashtag #OscarsSoWhite. And while many of us are comfortable in our power to merely comment via social media, there are a couple of strong voices who are fed up and ready to do something about it: director Spike Lee and actor Jada Pinkett-Smith have announced plans to boycott the Oscars this year, while the host of the 2016 awards himself has called the Academy out for their persistent negligence to nominate people of color.
Spike Lee’s Bold ‘Chi-Raq’ Releases Two Trailers
Spike Lee’s Bold ‘Chi-Raq’ Releases Two Trailers
Spike Lee’s Bold ‘Chi-Raq’ Releases Two Trailers
We’ve been blessed with not just one, but two new Spike Lee films this year, both retellings of established stories, and both very different kinds of movies. Following the release of Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (based on the cult classic Ganja and Hess) earlier this year, Lee returns with Chi-Raq — based on the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, the film also happens to be Amazon’s first original production, and we have two new trailers for the ambitious project.