The Academy of Motion Pictures has decreed that any movie being put forth for a Best Oscar picture (are those still a thing?) must meet specific criteria for diversity.
Starting with the March 2024 awards, movies will not be considered for a Best Picture nomination unless they feature a lead or significant supporting character from an “underrepresented racial or ethnic group,” have a main storyline that focuses on an underrepresented group, or at least 30% of the cast comes from two or more underrepresented groups (women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ or the disabled).
But now that the diversity monster is going to affect The Art, then the stupid that has been coming out of Hollywood for the rest of us is now coming home to roost. And now the Artistes are up in arms.
“It’s completely ridiculous,” one director fumed to The Post. “I’m for diversity, but to make you cast certain types of people if you want to get nominated? That makes the whole process contrived. The person who is right for the part should get the part. Why should you be limited in your choices? But it’s the world we’re in. This is crazy.”
Oh I dunno, like being able to hire the right person for the job regardless of skin tone or chromosomes?? Wow, what a concept! Businesses everywhere have been laboring under this type of crap for years and Hollywood has been applauding it pour les outres.
I think the Academy has just made itself as obsolete to its membership as it has to the rest of us. Probably movies will start getting made to meet a vision, rather than the new criteria.
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