VIDEO : Oscars Boycott Grows Over Nominees' Lack Of Diversity

For the second year in a row, the Academy Awards are facing criticism over racial exclusion, as on Monday more voices joined in the call for boycotts of the Oscars. On Monday - a day in which Americans commemorate civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. - Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith announced that they will not be attending this year's ceremony. Lee wrote on the subject: "Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all" while Pinkett Smith - whose husband Will Smith was snubbed for his performance in "Concussion," said "begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity."