The Oscars have, once again, been scrutinized for their lack of diversity. For the second year in a row, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced an all-white ballet for the Oscar nominees. Actress Jada Pinkett Smith and director Spike Lee took the initiative of voicing their opinions on the matter and have decided to not attend this year’s awards. This has inspired other celebrities to follow suit and boycott the Oscars.

Director Spike Lee has been especially vocal in this controversy, but he denies responsibility for any boycott in an interview with Good Morning America.

He attracted a lot of attention for passionately expressing his disapproval on his Instagram page in an essay titled #OscarsSoWhite. “40 Actors in 2 years and no Flava at all. We Can't Act!? WTF!!” Exclaimed Lee. He told GMA he will be attending the New York Knicks basketball game instead.

On the same day, Jada Pinkett Smith expressed similar sentiments. She posted a video proclaiming that she also would not be in attendance this year. She said "Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power. And we are a dignified people, and we are powerful. So let's let the Academy do them, with all grace and love. And let's do us, differently."

Some criticized the legitimacy of her reaction, and assumed her reaction was only due to her husband Will Smith's lack of nomination for his role in the film Concussion. Wendy Williams said on her show that Jada needs to “have a seat.”

Former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air "Aunt Viv" Janet Huber chimed in also and called the couple “pretenders”.

"I’m a real freedom fighter. I’m not a pretend freedom fighter. I stand up for other actresses, other people. The Smiths just irked me because they are such pretenders, and everything is a photo op. It’s just self-contrived because her hubby didn’t get a nomination," Hubert said in a Facebook video.

Will Smith responded to his wife's accusations on Good Morning America. He admitts that his lack of nomination contributed to her passion but said, “Had I not been nominated and no other people of color were, she would have made the video anyway."

The actor stands by his wife's decision and has decided to join her in not attending. "This is so deeply not about me. This is about children that are going to sit down and they're going to watch this show and they're going to not see themselves represented.”

Smith, a two-time Oscar nominee referred to diversity as "America's Superpower" and pointed out the lack of it in the nominations. "The nominations reflect the academy. The academy the industry [Hollywood]. The industry reflects America. There is a regressive slide toward separatism, towards racial and religious disharmony, and that's not the industry I want to leave behind. That's not the America I want to leave behind." His words resonated with the GMA audience and sent an important message to the industry about diversity.

Not every black actor agreed with the Smith's. Fox’s Stacey Dash revealed on Fox & Friends that she finds the outrage over the nominees “ludicrous,” when asked her opinion by host Steve Doocy.

“We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration. And if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards where you're only awarded if you're black. If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. It's a double standard.”

Doocy: “So you say there shouldn’t be a BET channel?”

“No,” Dash said. “I don’t think so, no. Just like there shouldn’t be a Black History Month. You know? We’re Americans. Period. That’s it.”

“Are you saying there shouldn’t be a Black History Month because there isn’t a white history month?”

“Exactly, exactly.”

Dash received serious backlash on social media and from several black outlets. BET took shots at Dash by pointing out that she had appeared on the network in the TV series “The Game”. They tweeted “Can we have our check back?”

Despite these heated opinions, support has grown, and more stars are taking a stance. From Lupita Nyong'o to George Clooney, Hollywood's best are pressuring the Academy Awards about their lack of diversity.

Clooney says in a recent interview "African-Americans have a real fair point that the industry isn't representing them well enough."

He also said he believes we are moving in the wrong direction as a nation. "If you think back 10 years ago, the Academy was doing a better job,” Clooney said. “Think about how many more African-Americans were nominated."

This pressure has pushed the academy to take some action. Although, according to the New York Times they were strongly playing down any steps to trim the voting rights of older members.

The Academy's President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, 67 African-America female, announced Thursday Night that the Academy is going to lead, and not wait for the industry to catch up.

Changes to voting requirements, recruiting process, and governing structures are already underway after a 51 member governing board meeting.

Isaacs plans to double the number of female and minority members in 2020 alluding to the demographic of older white males that currently exists within the Academy.

It is becoming clearer that this controversy is much bigger than just this awards show. As Will Smith stated, "The Industry reflects America," so what is this saying about representation in other places of power in our country? Spike Lee concludes that the blame is to be placed on the "Gate Keepers" because African American do not have a seat at the table.

Pinkett-Smith said in an Entertainment Tonight video "This whole Oscar controversy isn’t really about the Oscars,” Pinkett Smith added. “Really, in my plea to ask all communities and people of color to take back our power is so that we can use it in all sectors of our community, and right now, specifically with African-American people, we have some very serious issues that I think we as a people have to move together."

Black Hollywood has decided they are tired of being ignored. They are sending a message to the rest of the nation about power in numbers. What will happen when Americans that can relate decide they are tired of being ignored also?