Sean Penn on Tuesday blasted the organizers of the Oscars for being cowards who, in effect, limit the kinds of films that can be funded and made. The 64-year-old actor said at the Marrakech Film Festival that he gets excited about the Academy Awards only on the rare occasion that films he values are nominated.

Outspoken Oscar-winning actor and director Sean Penn made a call for people to ditch political correctness and truly embrace diversity in thought and action as he received a career honor at the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday evening.

The Oscar-winning ‘Milk’ star made the comments at the Marrakech Film Festival where he was honored for his longtime acting and directing career

"I would just encourage everybody to be as politically incorrect as their heart desires," Penn said while also applauding Ali Abbasi's daring Donald Trump biopic "The Apprentice."

Actor / Director Sean Penn has criticised the Academy and Hollywood, especially for its lack of courage when it comes to funding films that expand "cultural expressions". He also slammed how the system made it difficult for the Donald Trump origin story 'The Apprentice' to find a distributor.

"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,

After the Oscars excluded recent Trump biopic The Apprentice, Sean Penn is speaking out in support of the film as he slams the Academy.