Posted on 09/10/2020 2:35:00 AM PDT by USA Conservative
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is implementing new diversity quotas that must be met for moviemakers to be considered for the Best Picture Academy Awards.
“The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday laid out sweeping eligibility reforms to the best picture category intended to encourage diversity and equitable representation on screen and off, addressing gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and disability,” ABC News reported on Wednesday.
The Academy set four representation categories, which will go into effect in 2024: “On screen,” “among the crew,” “at the studio,” and “in opportunities for training and advancement in other aspects of the film’s development and release.”
More specifically, films must have “at least one lead character or a significant supporting character be from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.” Otherwise, the film should have at least “30% of secondary roles be from two underrepresented groups,” or the film’s main story, theme, or message “must be focused on an underrepresented group.”
Academy President David Rubin and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson said in a statement that “the aperture must widen to reflect our diverse global population in both the creation of motion pictures and in the audiences who connect with them,” and added that “we believe these inclusion standards will be a catalyst for long-lasting, essential change in our industry.”
Said ABC:
The second category addresses the creative leadership and crew composition of a film. In order to meet the standard a film must have either at least two leadership positions or department heads be from an underrepresented group and at least one be from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group; at least six other crew be from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group; or at least 30% of the film’s crew be from an underrepresented group.
The third category deals with paid internship and apprenticeship opportunities as well as training opportunities for below-the-line workers, and the fourth category addresses representation in marketing, publicity and distribution teams.
“Cheers” actress Kirstie Alley blasted the new quotas as “dictatorial, saying the rules are akin to “telling Picasso what had to be in his f***ing paintings.”
Writing on Twitter on Tuesday night, Alley said: “The Academy celebrates freedom of UNBRIDLED artistry expressed through movies. The new RULES to qualify for Best Picture are dictatorial… anti-artist… Hollywood you’re swinging so far left you’re bumping into your own a**.”
She added: “This is a disgrace to artists everywhere…can you imagine telling Picasso what had to be in his f***ing paintings. You people have lost your minds… Control artists, control individual thought… OSCAR ORWELL.”
Oscar nominee James Woods also said the new eligibility rules were “madness.”
Yup.
Their ratings have collapsed already over the past few years from their anti Trump rantings. This new nonsense should about finish them off. And a jolly good thing too.
IMHO, Hollywood’s leftist agitprop has long been successful because it was insidiously subtle. I think the more blatant and in-your-face it becomes, the less cultural impact it will have. I know I could be wrong, but it seems Hollywood is actively seeking to marginalize its importance. I hope I’m right.
Well, they’ve been dead for a long time, now let’s just throw the dirt over them.
Liberals destroy everything they touch, literally everything.
> “Cheers” actress Kirstie Alley blasted the new quotas <
Kirstie Alley has gone and done it now! Hollywood will probably use a computer program to erase her from the old “Cheers” episodes, and replace her with Rosie O’Donnell.
Diversity and the rest of it derives from Marxist revolutionary ideology.
Looks like I’ll have to get Morgan Freedman to be the navigator in my remake of a German submarine film I’m calling Das reBoot.
Marxism has definitely taken a hold in Hollywood. They still don’t get it that they are entertainers and nothing else. If they don’t keep their customers happy, they will not have job.
Movies have mostly been farces for a long time, and no it will be obvious. In fact, the only ones to be taken seriously will probably be real farce.
Let’s list some of the Best Picture winners from the past and see if they might qualify:
Gone With the Wind - Yes
Sound of Music - No
Funny.. How ironic. So even in their vain industry, they had based the awards on merit of their craft for all these years, and mocked conservative thought for real life being based on merit (jobs pay, immigration) and now they’ve wiped that away and the identity politics beast will make them eat their own. Chickens coming home to roost.
Same with sports.
Yeah, you white people. Off the stage! We rigged this vote in the back rooms weeks ago! Screw that moron that got the envelopes mixed up!
LOL.
And a large number of Hollywoods white males just engaged in professional suicide to virtue signal.
Really smart guys.
Make a movie starring a gay, black female in a wheelchair and you not only have a winner for best picture but a winner for best actor.
They are ALL “The Last Jedi” now.
Let’s list some of the Best Picture winners from the past and see if they might qualify:
“Looks like I’ll have to get Morgan Freedman to be the navigator in my remake of a German submarine film I’m calling Das reBoot.”
Heh, heh, perfect example of the idiocy of these diversity requirements by the loony leftists running the Academy Awards (into the ground).
The right director could do a comic remake of some classic, mocking these rules by enforcing them.
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