The Academy-award-winning actress, who is nominated again this year for NASA movie "Hidden Figures", says films generally take more than a year to make so it is unlikely that the controversy impacted the list this year where seven people of colour are included in acting nominations.
"When you know how movies are made, the explosion of films with people of color is not a reaction to #OscarsSoWhite... The tide has changed, but we still have a ways to go, because they still aren't inclined to greenlight a movie that's starring a person of color, without a long list of white box-office people," Spencer told Deadline.
"Moonlight is one of the few stories that cover what it's like for the black, gay experience. Lion, that's diverse, that's out there now. There's so many different perspectives and interesting stories out there. There are many, many meanings of diversity to me. I want to see more Latin stories told. More Asian stories.
Spencer says the only way a difference can be made when people stopped spending their money on movies that don't represent them.
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