Dustin Hoffman on Oscars: 'It's always been racism'

The two-time Oscar winner did not attend Sunday night's ceremony, nor did he watch the broadcast.

For the second consecutive year, there was a lack of diversity among Oscar nominees with only white actors getting the nod.

During his opening monologue at the Oscars, Rock questioned the controversy, saying: "It's the 88th Academy Awards, which means this whole black, no nominees thing has happened at least 71 other times."

Hoffman made the comments while attending the opening of the Metrograph, the first independently-owned movie theater to open in Manhattan in more than decade.