Academy Award nominee Brie Larson reveals her thoughts on the #OscarsSoWhite criticism concerning this year’s acting nominees.
If #OscarsSoWhite was a T-shirt, you would see it on every runway from New York City to Milan. Because nearly everyone is jumping on the bandwagon bashing the latest Oscar nominations.
Following Jada Pinkett Smith, Spike Lee, Will Smith, George Clooney and Mark Ruffalo, a new actress has stepped from behind the curtain to bash the Oscars. This time it’s Brie Larson. Brie Larson is most known for her appearance in the Academy Award nominated movie Room and the 2012 comedy 21 Jump Street.
But, this time around, Brie Larson is tackling the Oscar nominations issue head on. After thanking The Hollywood Reporter for “covering thing very unique moment” of her life about her rise to stardom, the actress took a moment to call out the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.
“Personally, I’m interested in reading [THR‘s] article on #OscarsSoWhite,” wrote Larson. “This is a conversation that deserves attention.”
She is just the latest actor in a string of actors to address the issue. Mark Ruffalo, who is nominated in the best supporting actor category for Spotlight said he is thinking about not attending the award show this year.
“”I’m weighing it, that’s where I’m at right now,” he told BBC News. “I woke up in the morning thinking, ‘what is the right way to do this?’ Because if you look at Martin Luther King’s legacy, what he was saying was that the good people who don’t act are much worse than the wrongdoers who are purposefully not acting and don’t know the right way.”
In addition, Will Smith, Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith all said they will not be attending the Oscars this year. Will Smith is one of this year’s most noteworthy Oscar snubs, failing to land a best actor nomination for his role in Concussion.
