Acknowledging Quote by Steve Stoute

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

— Clint Eastwood

There are simply too many Academy members who were voted in during a less inclusive era and still remain a large voting bloc even…

— Roger Ross Williams

The Academy just reflects Hollywood. And until we break those barriers, until we have African-American or minority studio executives, 'til we have people who…

— Roger Ross Williams

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by…

— Julie Delpy

That is the problem that we have with the so-called hip hop culture today... I think our foundation is a bunch of people who…

— MC Hammer

I was in high school and college as hip-hop was really sort of coming into its own as a, you know, creative force, as…

— Rick Famuyiwa

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of…

— James Cromwell

Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe we should…

— Lexi Alexander

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong.…

— Iggy Azalea

I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's…

— Talib Kweli

We're a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It's no longer just an urban thing, and it's no…

— Taboo

Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it…

— Ryan Murphy