HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Filmmaker Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith have both vowed to boycott this year's Academy Awards after black actors and filmmakers were snubbed in nominations.
"Is it time that people of color recognize how much power, influence that we have amassed, that we no longer need to ask to be invited anywhere?" Pinkett Smith asked in a video posted to her Facebook page Monday. "The Academy has the right to acknowledge whomever they choose, to invite whomever they choose, and now I think that it's our responsibility now to make the change."