Posted on 08/07/2021 9:31:40 AM PDT by EdnaMode
♦ With the Gotham Awards moving to gender-neutral acting categories, the conversation shifts to when more awards shows will follow suit. IndieWire’s TV Awards Editor Libby Hill and Deputy Editor Ben Travers stopped for a Double Take to assess what might happen next — and what’s stopping it from happening sooner.
BEN TRAVERS: On Thursday, the Gotham Film and Media Institute announced its annual awards show, the Gotham Awards, would be eliminating the Best Actor and Best Actress categories in favor of gender-neutral groupings that highlight Lead and Supporting performers. In addition, it tweaked the title of its Breakthrough Actor honor to Breakthrough Performer (even though, as we’re reminded every year during the SAG Awards, “actor” is already a gender-neutral term) and added two additional TV categories: Outstanding Performance in a New Series (the Gotham’s first acting honor for television) and Breakthrough Nonfiction Series, both of which will join the pre-existing categories for Long-Form (60-minute episodes) and Short-Form (30 min) Breakthrough Series.
The Gotham Awards aren’t the first awards ceremony to incorporate inclusive categories — the TCA Awards, as you noted Libby, have been doing so since 1997 — but the most prominent entertainment honors still divide their nominees up by gender, including the SAG Awards, Emmys, and Oscars. The TV Academy, in particular, has ignored arguments favoring the change for years now. Libby, is this latest shift by the Gotham Awards sizable enough to push more awards shows in a similar direction, and what’s keeping the Emmys from following suit already?
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There is no such thing as gender neutral in the real, sane world. Stop trying to erase biological men and women just because some mentally ill persons decide to carve up their bodies and take hormones in a volume that their bodies do not naturally produce.
I’m long past caring what these awards shows do. Little Ben and Smelly Libby can have their way as far as I’m concerned.
They won't change anything until trannies "make history" by winning all the Best Actress awards.
All of the Lassies were male.
So we will have....
Best Actor in a major motion picture
Best Actress in a major motion picture
Best “It” in a major motion picture
Hi.
Can’t wait till someone asks me my pronoun.
I will tell them my pronoun can also be a noun, verb and adverb.
Afted processing that, they will ask, well what do like to be called?
Fu@k you. It’s a Chinese family name.
5.56mm
The Gotham Awards?? Is this something new, or am I just totally (and happily) out of touch?
> And what happens when there are more men nominated than women? <
No worries. Complicated diversity rules will probably be set up. Maybe...
Old way: Four men nominated for best actor. Four women nominated for best actress. One winner from each group.
New way: Eight nominations for best actor, at least four of whom must be women. Two winners, at least one of whom must be a woman.
Call everyone in Hollywood “stupid chimps”—problem solved.
I’ve been considering mine will be “Your Majesty”. M9ght have a lot of company using that one though.
My preferred pronoun is “Massah,” as in “Yes, Massah.”
“Feminists will have a tantrum.”
They could dole out awards based on type of performance.
“Best hissyfit in a pretentious drama.”
That will happen. There will be complaints if the gender neutral categories don’t have enough women nominees. We all know that will happen. And if too many men end up winning gender neutral awards, there will be similar protests about that.
CORRECTION: Exactly three of whom must "identify" as male, exactly three of whom must "identify" as female, and exactly two of whom must "identify" as "neither male nor female."
Regards,
No, they need to stop pretending that homosexuality and perversion are normal.
All thirty-two of them.
It’s about time they got their own category, after all they are unique.
I hope they do this everywhere with everything.
This sounds exactly how they would do it.
The “gender neutral” awards show will have even fewer viewers than the normal awards show, and that’s saying something.
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