Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo has told Sky News he is "really sympathetic" to those who have criticised the Academy Awards for its lack of black stars in the top categories.
All 20 nominations for best actor/actress and supporting actor/actress went to white performers
And this has led to calls to boycott the ceremony on 28 February - in what Ruffalo called a "powerful gesture".
Stars including actress Jada Pinkett Smith and director Spike Lee have said they will not be attending, although Ruffalo said he would "probably" not join the boycott.
He is nominated in the best supporting actor category for his role in Spotlight where he plays a journalist at a paper that discovered a cover-up of child sex abuse in the Catholic church in Massachusetts.
Ruffalo is one of the first Oscar nominees to comment on the row.
Speaking at the film's premiere in London, he said of the boycott call: "I do have a great deal of sympathy for it and I think it is a powerful gesture.
"And I think that those folks who are getting involved there should get involved with the people who are losing their lives every day, in the Black Lives Matter movement."
But he admitted he was "struggling" to get behind the boycott campaign and he said he probably would be going to the ceremony as he represents the victims whose stories feature in his movie.
He said: "It's something I am struggling with personally to get behind this or not.
"The only reason I am probably not going to take part in the boycott is because I am representing another kind of victim and the Oscars mean a lot to these people."
He added: "There are thousands of people who have been voiceless, who have been sexually abused by priests.
Sidney Poitier became the first African-American male to win an Oscar after walking away with the best actor prize for Lilies Of The Field in 1964
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