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Spike Lee joins Jada Pinkett Smith’s Oscars boycott because of the lack of black nominees

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Spike Lee won't be attending The Oscars (Picture: Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
Spike Lee won’t be attending The Oscars (Picture: Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Film director Spike Lee has said he won’t be attending the Academy Awards next month – due to the overwhelming number of white nominees.

The Malcolm X director, 58, announced the decision in a Facebook post titled #OscarsSoWhite – and set his reasoning against the backdrop of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

He wrote: ‘Dr King said, “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but he must take it because conscience tells him it’s right.

‘How is it possible for the 2nd consecutive year all 20… Read the full story


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