The Hot Line: Spike Lee boycotts the Oscars over lack of diversity

January 23, 2016 at 8:00PM
Director Spike Lee attends the premiere of HBO's new drama series "Vinyl", at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Director Spike Lee attended the premiere of HBO’s new drama series “Vinyl”, at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, in New York. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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"Chi-Raq" director/producer Spike Lee on Instagram on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, expressing his dismay with the 2015 and 2016 Oscar nominations with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.

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