Posted on 12/20/2016 7:28:21 PM PST by TigerClaws
In an incredibly bold move, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced last week that, beginning in 2019, works that do not demonstrate inclusivity in their production practices will no longer be eligible for the Outstanding British Film or Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer awards at the annual BAFTAs, often considered the U.K. equivalent of the Oscars.* Eligible projects must showcase this in two of the following ways, as the BBC reported: On-screen characters and themes, senior roles and crew, industry training and career progression, and audience access and appeal to underrepresented audiences. BAFTA will also remove the requirement that newly admitted voters be recommended by two existing members.
Back in 2014, the British Film Institute established similar standards for projects seeking National Lottery funding in an effort to improve representation within the filmmaking industry. BAFTA's decision is particularly striking, however, when you hold it up against its American counterpart, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which, of course, faced an embarrassing PR backlash with the #OscarsSoWhite campaign this year. Not long after the Oscar nominations revealed, for the second year in a row, a slate of all-white acting nominees, the academy announced that it was changing its membership rules in an effort to address the issue. This included shortening members’ voting statuses to 10 years (able to reactivated so long as they remain active within the industry) and adding three more governors' seats filled by people from underrepresented groups.
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And?
So?
More liberal extortion.
anyone who makes films for awards....
You talk about chicken shtt
Even chickens look down on this. It’s worse than chickenshit.
Gone with the Wind was diverse . . .
BAFTA? Bureau of Arrogant Friggin Tittybaby A-holes?
I guess period pieces are automatically not eligible?
Who cares?
Movie houses are gonna have a lot of popcorn and Jujubes left over.
Looks like a lot of these miffed organizations are going to get elbowed off into irrelevance. The world is at a cultural tipping point of enough-too-much-leftiness.
You’re not going to need the awards when you’ve killed movies
The BEEB has absolutely RUINED almost EVERY SINGLE Shakespearean play, now, by casting blacks in MAJOR roles, where they do NOT belong at all!
Hollyweird and T.V. shows made here, have done the same damned thing and have already picked the OSCAR winners according to race, queerness, transgender, etc.!
They’ll still give out awards; especially for highly praised FLOPS that the vast majority of people have less than no desire to see; sadly.
According to whom?
Contrary to certain people’s imaginations, I actually go whole days without running into Blacks and homosexuals.
Some days I do run into them. That’s life. It is as it should be.
Movies can depict real life without swapping out male roles, and packing the cast with tokens.
Shame on these racists.
It depends on the period.
I might be wrong, but I think Shakespeare transcends race. A black actor in a Shakespeare play doesn’t bother me too much at all. After all, all the female roles were played by boys/young men back in the day.
But in depicting actual historic events, putting blacks where they weren’t is just falsifying reality for political correctness. I doubt there were many blacks at the Battle of Runnymede.
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