Michael Caine on Uproar Over Oscars' Lack of Diversity: 'You Can't Vote for an Actor Because He's Black'

Michael Caine on Uproar Over Oscars' Lack of Diversity: 'You Can't Vote for an Actor Because He's Black', Among the abounding Hollywood stars delivery their opinions about the Academy Awards assortment altercation is Michael Caine, who offered this admonition to performers of color: "Be patient."

Caine, who starred in endure year's Youth, discussed his thoughts about the Oscars' all-white slates of acting nominees in an account with BBC Radio 4.

“There’s endless of atramentous actors. In the end you can't vote for an amateur because he's black," he said. "You can't say, 'I'm traveling to vote for him, he's not actual good, but he's black, I'll vote for him.'"

Caine cited Idris Elba's starring about-face in Beasts of No Nation as a achievement that adapted recognition. "Did he not get nominated?" he asked the host. "Well, attending at me. I won [Best Amateur at the European Film Awards] and I got nominated for annihilation else."

"Be patient. Of advance it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar, years.”

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