She was guarded about her remarks and she said she was too new in the industry to take extreme decisions.
One of the major highlights of Priyanka Chorpa’s Hollywood career was when she was asked to present an award at this year’s Oscars and the actress was asked about her view on the diversity issues rocking the Academy Awards. When asked about the lack of diversity at the Oscars, she was quoted saying by the Guardian, that she won’t join the likes of Jada Pinkett Smith to boycott the awards. “I am too new in this industry to be taking extreme decisions like that. When it comes to India I am very vocal about how I feel, but I am just six months old here, and honestly I want to go and see what will happen at the Oscars, especially as there is such a huge debate. I think it will be a very interesting evening.”
What’s the #OscarSoWhite controversy?
Created last year as a joke by April Reign, the manging editor of BroadwayBlack.com, the #OscarSOWhite hash tag was launched last year after the all-white line up of best-actor nominees.
Reign, the keynote speaker on Saturday at "The #BlackTwitter Conference" at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, is credited with launching the hashtag in January after last year's nominees best actor nominees were published.
"What I'm doing is attempting to amplify the discussion," Reign said at Saturday's conference, hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists. "The Academy can only nominate quality work that is made, so the onus still has to be on Hollywood to put those films out there."
Reign said she launched the tag initially as a joke, but it quickly went viral and has become a major venue for discussing race and Hollywood. The furor over the all-white line up of best-actor nominees prompted several big-name boycott announcements. Spike Lee, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith
#BlackTwitter16, the tag associated with Saturday's conference at Columbia, was among the top-trending hashtags on Twitter.
"Black Twitter has gone from being seen as these frivolous conversations that black people are having at night," said Sherri Williams, a post-doctoral fellow and professor at Wake Forest University who was among the panelist at the conference. "Now it's an entity that people are taking seriously."
What does America think?
Diversity - or the lack of it - among Academy Award nominees has overshadowed this year's Oscars, but 44 percent of Americans do not support the idea of boycotting the movie industry's biggest night, according to a Reuters/Ispsos poll.
Yet that does not mean Americans are happy with the way Hollywood portrays people of color, or that it makes enough movies that appeal to minorities, the poll showed.
The findings come a month after a furor over the omission of any actors of color among the 20 lead and supporting acting nominees for a second straight year, and the absence from the best picture contest of critically acclaimed hip-hop movie "Straight Outta Compton."
The omissions prompted directors Spike Lee and Michael Moore, along with actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, to say that they would stay at home on the night of the Feb. 28 Oscars ceremony in protest.
Civil rights activist the Reverend Al Sharpton and some groups have called on the public to hold demonstrations and to "tune-out" the ceremony, which is usually watched by about 40 million Americans on television.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, however, showed that just 23 percent of the 2,423 people polled online agreed with an Oscars boycott over the issue. The same percentage had no opinion, and 44 percent disagreed.
The survey was conducted about three weeks after the largely white, male-dominated Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which votes on the Oscars, announced it would double the amount of women and minorities among its ranks in the next four years.
However, Americans believe Hollywood has its work cut out for it in terms of the numbers of black, Latino and Asian-Americans in front of and behind the camera, as well as the movies the industry produces.
Forty-four percent of those questioned said they believe Hollywood has a general problems with minorities and 30 percent said movies made in the film industry's capital do not accurately reflect the racial diversity of the United States.
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