Just 23% of respondents backed call to tune out’ of world’s most famous film ceremony,but 44% agree that ‘Hollywood has a problem with minorities’Less than a quarter of Americans support a boycott of the Oscars over the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ failure to appoint any actors of colour for the second year running, according to a new poll.
Just 23% of respondents to a survey by Reuters said they backed calls for viewers to “tune out” from the world’s most famous film ceremony this year, and which will seize area at the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles on 28 February. Spike Lee,Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, or Tyrese Gibson and Michael Moore are among the notable figures who have called for a boycott or signalled that they will be staying absent in protest.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com