Will Smith will not attend the Oscars in row over lack of diversity

[DonFerrari]

anamme said:

If they really want to make changes at who and what is nominated, why not start with the many questionable choices and pity-nominations the Academy has doled out over the years.

Forrest Gump winning Best Picture over Pulp Fiction
Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan
Stanley Kubrick never winning anything, none of his films ever being nominated for Best Picture
Francis Ford Coppola not winning Best Director for The Godfather
Crash winning Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain and Munich

Those are the real tragedies. Fix the system, the rest will follow.

Forrest Gump is great, and perhaps I would say better than PF, but I'm no specialist so I won't discuss it. On the rest I do agree, even though never saw SK movies and several people have bad opinion of him the consensus is that he is genial. But as you put those are a lot more intriguing than no black person being nominated.

The Fury said:
This is turning weird. Lack of diversity? For directors, there are 2 american's, an aussie, irish and a mexican. That's pretty good diversity for an American awards ceremony.... sorry though, that isn't the kind of diversity they are looking for, is it? Yet I don't remember that many great performances from Black actors in the last year. I recently saw Creed, a great film, however lead actor Michael B Jordan was good but not great in it. Sly Stallone was great in it so deserves his nomination.

Sly is Rocky. No one can interpret Sly being Rocky =p