Spike Lee Boycotts Oscars, Compares Himself to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Daniel Nussbaum
In his Instagram post, Lee said that the “‘real’ battle” for diversity in the film industry is not in the Academy, but rather in the executive offices of film studios, where gatekeepers still decide which films get made.
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