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Oscars: Majority of Academy board now female
Deutsche Welle ^ | 06.22.2021 | Elizabeth Grenier

Posted on 06/22/2021 11:49:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai

As a result of its latest round of elections, the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the body that directs the Oscars’ strategic vision, is now made up of 31 women and 23 men, the academy announced on Monday. It is the first time that the board has a female majority in the academy’s 94-year history.

Actor Rita Wilson, documentary editor and producer Jean Tsien and composer Lesley Barber are among the women newly elected to the board of governors.

The number of people of color has also reached new record levels through the academy’s 2021-2022 elections, rising from 12 to 15. […]

The number of members was dramatically expanded in the wake of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy in 2015. At the time, the AMPAS revealed that 93% of its then 6,000 members where white, and 76% of them were men, with an average age of 63.

The academy then pledged in early 2016 to double the number of women and people of color by 2020, a goal that, according to the organization’s own count, was indeed surpassed in June last year, with membership now one-third female and 19% “underrepresented minorities.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ampas; antiwhiteracism; feminism; oscars
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Hmm. Commensurate with consistently-declining viewership.
1 posted on 06/22/2021 11:49:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Once females take anything over, males aren’t interested in it anymore. It’s happened over the years in a lot of professions.


2 posted on 06/22/2021 11:51:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

So if it’s all about racial quotas, Selection of the winners should simply be pro forma, analyze the cast, most diverse wins.


3 posted on 06/22/2021 11:54:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Olog-hai

It will make the oscars much more predictable, like family court. The woman wins.


4 posted on 06/22/2021 11:55:52 AM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds about right. The target audience for movies today is 99% women anyway.


5 posted on 06/22/2021 11:56:13 AM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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To: Olog-hai

This is proof positive we should never have given them the vote.


6 posted on 06/22/2021 11:59:24 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Women do not consistently vote left-wing. It was not women who got us the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments, remember.


7 posted on 06/22/2021 12:00:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: dfwgator

“Once females take anything over, males aren’t interested in it anymore. It’s happened over the years in a lot of professions.”

It’s not they are not interested they (white males) are not picked.
Look at school class photos of all the colleges pharmacy programs for instance, about 95% female.

Veterinarian schoola are now 90%+ female. A local white gay guy remarked on our local FB chat he only got in vet school because he was gay. At least he was honest.


8 posted on 06/22/2021 12:00:54 PM PDT by setter
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To: Olog-hai

I paid zero attention to the oscars before this, and will pay even less now.


9 posted on 06/22/2021 12:01:06 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The government is the biggest criminal of them all.)
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To: dfwgator

“Once females take anything over, males aren’t interested in it anymore. “

There’s like NINE male elementary teachers in the whole country. Or, some other ridiculously low number.


10 posted on 06/22/2021 12:01:11 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Olog-hai

“Women do not consistently vote left-wing.”

Remove the female vote and there would not be a Democrat in any office of the country.


11 posted on 06/22/2021 12:02:52 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Olog-hai
WOMEN, ARE YOU SURE?


12 posted on 06/22/2021 12:03:04 PM PDT by laweeks (The air is always different to a midget on a crowded elevator.)
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There’s like NINE male elementary teachers in the whole country. Or, some other ridiculously low number.

And 10 male nurses.

13 posted on 06/22/2021 12:03:05 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Remove the female vote and there would not be a Democrat in any office of the country.

"I think of a man, and then I take away reason and accountability."

14 posted on 06/22/2021 12:04:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

Who cares


15 posted on 06/22/2021 12:04:31 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Mariner

Absolutely untrue. The base of the Democratic Party has always been white left-wing males.

If there’s a problem with the Nineteenth Amendment, it is the left-wing focus on breaking up the family, since the family is the basic unit of society. Actual voting patterns are variable, but that of course is not the important point here.


16 posted on 06/22/2021 12:05:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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“The base of the Democratic Party has always been white left-wing males.”

Not for the last 50 years.


17 posted on 06/22/2021 12:09:14 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

The base of the Dems is a menagerie of feminists, immigrants, blacks, LBGBQT and other misfits.


18 posted on 06/22/2021 12:13:01 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Olog-hai

57% of women voted for Biden. Black women are the single most reliable democratic voting block.


19 posted on 06/22/2021 12:14:46 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Olog-hai

This doesn’t look like diversity.

Then again, the Academy honored a Nazi propagandist in the year of her death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leni_Riefenstahl


20 posted on 06/22/2021 12:16:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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