Clint Eastwood has blasted the Oscar race row as actress Charlotte Rampling defended her comments calling the backlash ‘anti-white’. When asked what he thought about the controversy surrounded Hollywood’s biggest awards show, Eastwood told TMZ he didn’t know anything about it. The 85-year-old then added: ‘All I know is there’s thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven’t won Oscars.’ Eastwood isn’t one of the majority, however, having won four Academy Awards during his lengthy career – Best Director and Best Picture in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby and Best Director and Best Picture in 1993 for Unforgiven. But he slammed those calling for a boycott of the ceremony after no non-white actors were nominated in the acting categories for the second year in a row, adding: ‘A lot of people are crying, I guess.’ ‘A lot of people are crying’: When asked about the Oscars controversy, Clint Eastwood blasted those calling for a boycott Meanwhile, Rampling entered the debate early on Friday saying that plans to boycott the Oscars were misguided and calls to get more minority nominees were ‘anti-white racism’. Ms Rampling’s entrance into the row was notable as she is… Read full this story
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