According to Reuters, Hollywood multi-millionaire black actors Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith are boycotting the February 2016 Oscar awards ceremony , "in protest over the absence of nominated actors of color, in any of the 20 acting categories," ie Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
The Smiths and the well-known black Hollywood film maker Spike Lee, who is also boycotting the ceremony, allege that the lack of diversity of nominated actors and actresses is a result of the lack of diversity in the membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and in the Hollywood film industry itself.
In other words, if there were fewer white men and women of privilege in the Academy and more black, brown, yellow and red men and women of "under privilege", more men and women of color would be nominated and hence win such coveted Academy Awards.
