While we celebrate their extraordinary achievements, I am both heartbroken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion.

Clooney said "there should be more opportunity than that".

For the second year in a row, not a single person of color has been nominated for an acting Oscar.

"There should be 20 or 30 or 40 films of the quality that people would consider for the Oscars".

"(On) Feb. 28th, we'll be at the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden", Lee told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday.

The acclaimed filmmaker said "we need the Rooney Rule", a reference to the National Football League requirement that football teams interview at least one minority candidate every time a senior position opens up. "For Hispanics, it's even worse". "We used to be better at it", he said. "They got me parking cars on G level".

Goldberg, an Oscar victor for 1990's "Ghost", also said that a conversation about diversity in Hollywood shouldn't only occur during awards season.

President of the Academy Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who is herself black and a campaigner for diversity in the film industry, admitted last week that she was "disappointed" by the fact that there were no black performers nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress.

"We had a deep and meaningful [conversation]", he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Despite speaking out on the issue, George Clooney did not prominently feature a person of color in the last four movies he directed. "We grow up aspiring, dreaming, longing to be accepted into that august establishment because it is the height of excellence". The star of "Selma" said, while delivering his prepared remarks, that the Academy has a "problem" that "needs to be solved". "In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond". Furthermore, he added, it's not representative of the nation. The problem is that the movie makers are not asking her or any people of color to go take such roles like the Marvel film. "The underlying anger and frustration that you feel from the black community is not made up".