By newsfirstusa 
MARRAKECH, Morocco — Sean Penn on Tuesday blasted the organizers of the Oscars for being cowards who, in impact, prohibit the varieties of motion pictures that may be funded and made.
The 64-year-old actor mentioned on the Marrakech Movie Pageant that he will get occupied with the Academy Awards handiest at the uncommon day that motion pictures he values are nominated.
“The producers of the academy have exercised really extraordinary cowardice when it comes to being part of the world of expression and, in fact, have largely been part of limiting the imagination and limiting different cultural expressions,” Penn said at the festival, where he received a career achievement award this week.
“I don’t get very excited about what we’ll call the Academy Awards,” he mentioned, noting exceptions when sure motion pictures grace the rite, together with Sean Baker’s “ The Florida Project,” Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” and Jacques Audiard’s “ Emilia Perez. ”
Penn’s remarks dovetail with longstanding criticisms of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for lacking diversity within the ranks of its members and the films that they celebrate with awards.
The establishment has lately taken steps to reform and rebrand itself, however has confronted complaint for now not going a ways plenty.
Penn additionally lauded Iranian-Danish director Ali Abassi and his original movie “ The Apprentice ” about President Donald Trump. It faced difficulty finding an American distributor in the lead-up to the U.S. election in November.
“It’s kind of jaw-dropping how afraid this ‘business of mavericks’ is when they get a great film like that with great, great acting,” he mentioned. “They, too, can be as afraid as a piddly little Republican congressman.”
As a part of a profession tribute, the Marrakech Movie Pageant is screening 4 of Penn’s motion pictures this while in Morocco’s tourism capital. Native media in Morocco reported a number of target audience contributors exiting a screening of “Milk” throughout a scene that depicted two males in mattress. Homosexuality is prohibited underneath Morocco’s penal code, despite the fact that instances aren’t regularly prosecuted.
The actor, whose 2023 movie “ Superpower ” paperwork warfare in Ukraine, additionally voiced assistance for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and referred to as himself a “patriot in crisis” according to a query concerning the American political terrain.