Posted on 03/16/2018 12:41:34 PM PDT by EdnaMode
John Bailey, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is under investigation for allegations of sexual harassment.
The Academy received three harassment claims on Wednesday and immediately opened a probe, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Bailey was elected president of the institution in August. If he were forced to step down, he would be temporarily replaced by Lois Burwell, a veteran makeup artist who is the Academy’s vice president, until the next election in July.
Bailey’s tenure has been marked by a historic shift in the Academy’s approach to misconduct by its members. In October, the Academy voted to expel Harvey Weinstein less than 10 days after the New York Times first reported on his history of sexual harassment. The Academy also replaced Casey Affleck, who settled two sexual harassment lawsuits in 2010, as the presenter of the best actress award at this year’s Oscars.
In December, the Academy established a code of conduct which provides that members may be disciplined or expelled for abuse, harassment or discrimination. The Academy also set up a claims process which set forth how such allegations would be adjudicated.
Under the policy, the Academy’s Membership and Administration Committee reviews allegations. If deemed credible, they can be forwarded to the full Board of Governors for consideration of discipline.
Bailey is a veteran cinematographer who shot such films as “The Big Chill” and “Groundhog Day.” He is the first “below the line” leader of the Board of Governors since the 1980s. He is also known as a scholar of film history, and had a keen interest in how the crafts would be represented in the Academy’s museum, which is now under construction.
Upon his election to a four-year term, succeeding Cheryl Boone Isaacs, there were concerns about whether a 75-year-old white man was best suited to lead the Academy at a time when it is making a push to diversify its membership.
When asked about that by Variety last year, Bailey said, “What you just said is bulls—. I was born a white man, and I can’t help it that I’m 75 years old. Is this some sort of limiting factor?”
When? 1953?....................
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Yawn... We got another one... Geeez ... Enough already
The very same sick people who smugly proselytize Americans at EVERY juncture on how we should live our lives. They accuse us of hate, backwardness, racism, and then tell us how we should vote and manage our lives.
Get thee behind me!
Cheeez...commies should read their own manual. Certain things are allowed until they are not. Then examples are made; sometimes a few, sometimes in purges.
LOL. If it was after that, he could raise the George Bush Sr. defense that he’s just a harmless old man copping a feel.
Maybe, just maybe, the “accusations” come from some disgruntled academy members who didn’t like it when an “old white man” was selected to lead the organization, and worse that that old white man defended his selection against complaints like that.
Hope he still has his #metoo badge
Maybe just a coincidence but could be the real reason Matt Damon decided to move to Australia. The old fart was sexually harassing him...hahaha
“Maybe, just maybe, the “accusations” come from some disgruntled academy members who didn’t like it when an “old white man” was selected to lead the organization, and worse that that old white man defended his selection against complaints like that.”
I’ve been wondering if it isn’t an effort to get rid of men and move women into their slots.
Steal their lives, so to speak.
That definitely seems possible.
Nothing would surprise me with these people.
He already had three strikes against him for being an old white guy.
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