Sean Penn hits out at the Oscars

The Academy Award-winning actor and director has slammed the Oscars for "limiting different cultural expressions". Penn stated during a press conference at the Marrakech Film Festival, "The Academy have exercised really extraordinary cowardice when it comes to being part of the bigger world of expression, and in fact, have largely been part of limiting the imagination and very limiting of different cultural expressions." "So I don't I get very excited about what we'll call the Academy Awards (except for) when a film…”