Sean Penn is not done torching the Oscars. First, he threatened to literally smelt his Oscar statues over politics. And this year, the filmmaker is slamming what he called the “extraordinary cowardice” of those who vote for the Academy Awards in general — especially when it comes to boundary-pushing features.

“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,” Penn said during the Marrakech Film Festival (via Variety), where he received a lifetime achievement award. “So I don’t get very excited about what we’ll call the Academy Awards [except for] when a film like ‘The Florida Project,’ or ‘I’m Still Here’ [are nominated], or, you know, ‘Emilia Perez,’ of the things that are likely to happen this year.”

Penn specifically pointed to Ali Abbasi’s...