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.” …
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I am a woman and could not agree with you more.
Voted Republican since 1980, for the late, great Ronald Reagan.
Except for a slip-up for Clinton in his first term.
The second one; as a lawyer, I could not vote for a man who committed perjury.
Yes! Except the Star Wars characters were smarter than the alphabet soup crowd.
Perfect!!!
Guys...you need to stop arguing!
Please! I read both of your posts and enjoy hearing your perspectives.
Call a truce! :)
Take care,
Julie
Amen. Ole George won the most wanted award in the movie industry and he told them to take this Oscar and shove it. Too funny. I was not very political back then. I was still wet behind the ears and didn’t keep up with anything after sports!!! Kind of like most under 45 now days. Most don’t know what year it is much less anything else.
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