Dustin Hoffman on Oscars: 'It's always been racism', Dustin Hoffman feels there's a systemic ancestral botheration in America that goes above the Oscars.
The backstab Oscar champ did not appear Sunday night's ceremony, nor did he watch the broadcast. But he was in the aforementioned abode as this year's almsman of an Honorary Academy Award who boycotted the show.
"I went to see the Knicks bold and saw my acquaintance Spike Lee there all dressed up for the Oscars, but he was at the Knick game," Hoffman told the Associated Press on Wednesday night.
Lee abounding the bold at Madison Square Garden in New York in a atramentous tuxedo. Comedian Tracy Morgan, who was allotment of an Oscar's skit, aswell was at the game.
For the additional after year, there was a abridgement of assortment a part of Oscar nominees with alone white actors accepting the nod.
"Well, it's consistently been that way. It's not annihilation new, like Chris Rock, I heard said, 'Why this year'," responded Hoffman.
During his aperture address at the Oscars, Rock questioned the controversy, saying: "It's the 88th Academy Awards, which agency this accomplished black, no nominees affair has happened at atomic 71 added times."
Hoffman was edgeless in his acknowledgment for the acumen why it's been that way for so long.
"It's consistently been racism. It's affectionate of a absorption of what the country is," he said.
Hoffman fabricated the comments while accessory the aperture of the Metrograph, the aboriginal independently-owned cine amphitheater to accessible in Manhattan in added than decade.
"They alarm my era, the Golden Age of film, but I anticipate the Golden Age of blur still exists, but it's done by the indies, and I anticipate that is what this amphitheater is for," Hoffman said.
As for his thoughts on what can accompany added assortment to Hollywood: "We change if the humans that are afflicted force it to change," Hoffman said.
The backstab Oscar champ did not appear Sunday night's ceremony, nor did he watch the broadcast. But he was in the aforementioned abode as this year's almsman of an Honorary Academy Award who boycotted the show.
"I went to see the Knicks bold and saw my acquaintance Spike Lee there all dressed up for the Oscars, but he was at the Knick game," Hoffman told the Associated Press on Wednesday night.
Lee abounding the bold at Madison Square Garden in New York in a atramentous tuxedo. Comedian Tracy Morgan, who was allotment of an Oscar's skit, aswell was at the game.
For the additional after year, there was a abridgement of assortment a part of Oscar nominees with alone white actors accepting the nod.
"Well, it's consistently been that way. It's not annihilation new, like Chris Rock, I heard said, 'Why this year'," responded Hoffman.
During his aperture address at the Oscars, Rock questioned the controversy, saying: "It's the 88th Academy Awards, which agency this accomplished black, no nominees affair has happened at atomic 71 added times."
Hoffman was edgeless in his acknowledgment for the acumen why it's been that way for so long.
"It's consistently been racism. It's affectionate of a absorption of what the country is," he said.
Hoffman fabricated the comments while accessory the aperture of the Metrograph, the aboriginal independently-owned cine amphitheater to accessible in Manhattan in added than decade.
"They alarm my era, the Golden Age of film, but I anticipate the Golden Age of blur still exists, but it's done by the indies, and I anticipate that is what this amphitheater is for," Hoffman said.
As for his thoughts on what can accompany added assortment to Hollywood: "We change if the humans that are afflicted force it to change," Hoffman said.
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