Will Smith kutohudhuria sherehe za tuzo za Oscars

Will Smith appeared on Good Morning America today (January 21) to discuss the lack of diversity in this year's Oscars nominations. No African-American actor or actress was nominated in the field of 20 candidates.
"When I see this list and series of nominations that come out, everybody is fantastic and that's the complexity of this issue," Will Smith says to Robin Roberts. "Everyone is beautiful and deserving and it's fantastic, but it feels like it's going the wrong direction. When I look at it, the nominations reflect the Academy. The Academy reflects the industry, reflects Hollywood. Then the industry reflects America. It reflects a series of challenges that we are having in our country at the moment. There's a regressive slide towards separatism, towards racial and religious disharmony and that's not the Hollywood that I want to leave behind. That's not the industry, that's not the America I want to leave behind."

Smith has twice been nominated by the Academy, and lost to Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker. He was not nominated this year, although people suggest he should have been for his role in Concussion. Other African-Americans who some have said were overlooked by the Academy include Michael B. Jordan for his role in Creed and the actors of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton.
"This is so deeply not about me," Smith says of his criticism of the nominations. "This is about children that are gonna sit down and they're gonna watch the show and they're not going to see themselves represented."
Smith confirms that he is joining his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith in boycotting the Oscars and will not be in attendance at the awards.



"We've discussed it," he says, "and we're part of this community, but at this current time, we're uncomfortable to stand there and say that this is ok."
Also today, former president of the Academy, Hawk Koch, issued a statement to Variety calling for the entertainment industry to take an active role in increasing diversity. H