Clint Eastwood has bashed the Oscar race controversy just hours after Charlotte Rampling defended her comments saying the backlash was “anti-white”.
When asked what he thought about the controversy surrounding Hollywood’s biggest award show, Eastwood told TMZ he didn’t know anything about it.
The 85-year-old then added: ‘All I know is there’s thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven’t won Oscars.’
Clint Eastwood has won four Academy Awards during his long acting career –Â Best Director and Best Picture in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby and Best Director and Best Picture in 1993 for Unforgiven.
But Eastwood bashed those calling for a boycott of the ceremony after no non-white actors were nominated in the acting categories for the second year in a row, adding: ‘A lot of people are crying, I guess.’ Â
The director is the latest industry insider to address the latest criticism and calls for change after the Oscar nominations were announced on January 14th, and not a single actor of color received a nomination for the second year in a row.
