Oscar award winner, Lupita Nyong’o has joined the list of prominent entertainment figures who are protesting the lack of diversity at this year’s Academy Awards nominations.
The 32-year-old actress who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2013 for her role in 12 Years A Slave, took to Instagram to share her thoughts on the 2016 Oscars being solely composed of white actors and actresses.
“I am disappointed by the lack of inclusion in this year’s Academy Awards nominations,” she wrote. “It has me thinking about unconscious prejudice and what merits prestige in our culture.
“The Awards should not dictate the terms of art in our modern society, but rather be a diverse reflection of the best of what our art has to offer today. I stand with my peers who are calling for change in expanding the stories that are told and recognition of the people who tell them.”
Lupita joins the likes of George Clooney, Jada Pinkett Smith, Steve McQueen, Whoopi Goldberg, Idris Elba and Spike Like who have all spoken against the exclusion of black actors and actresses in the four major categories for the second year in a row.
