What a bunch of horses***.

If more actors were thinking like that, Leo would never attend Oscars for the rest of his life because of how many time he lost while deserving it.

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.

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.

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.

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

Stanley Kubrick won an Oscar for best Special Effects on 2001: A Space Odyssey. Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon were all nominated for Best Picture (though none of them won)

Coppola won Best Director for The Godfater Part II. Along with his 4 other awards for writing and producing I don't think he cares too much about losing to Cabaret.

Boycott the BET awards, Latin Grammys, and all of these other awards shows, which offer a true lack of diversity. If we had a White entertainment awards program, there would be riots.

If you don't think it proves my point, then I suspect you haven't understood my point. The momentum for the civil rights movement was triggered by Rosa Parks' highly visible action (there were previous cases, but they didn't push those events due to relative "unsuitability" of the women involved). Boycotts require momentum, they don't create momentum.

What we have right now is some rich black people vowing to not attend a glitzy awards event. That's just not going to start any momentum for change. The "#OscarsSoWhite" hashtag itself (or whatever it's called) is a more effective movement (and that's not really saying much).

When I spoke of lack of economic relevance, what I was talking about was specifically the issue with the Oscars, not to the film industry in general. Think of it this way - a boycott of the bus system sends the message "deal with this, or you won't get our money". What, exactly, does the boycott of the Oscars say? "Deal with this, or... we won't attend your event"? They're trying to boycott a social situation (an event that they get to go to for free) rather than a market. And that just won't work.

Hmmm....(rummages in drawer)...now where did I put my box of Fucks? Oh, that's right, I'm all outta Fucks for Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their bullshit campaign.

Make your own award show. There are still some weeks without one, Platinum equality awards.
The oscars are mostly bought anyway.

Shiiiiiiiu that can't be said... there is no prejudice against white folks.

You sir, are totaly right