New York Post Reports: If it were released today, “The Godfather” would possibly have no chance of winning a Best Picture Oscar.
That’s because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is beholden to new inclusivity standards.
Starting with the March 2024 awards, movies will not be considered for a Best Picture nomination unless they meet two out of four standards.
One of them is featuring 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).
A full outline of the standards can be found on the Academy site .
It’s got some voting members of the Academy 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.”
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disqus_tcMhXsphop
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Jun 23, 2023
all this Diversity and inclusion agendas will abckfire ebcuase hInclusion means excluding ideas and people they dont like and the majority of the population and pushing race and gender based quotas leave whites, Hispanics, Asians and men unable to find jobs forcing them to turn to crime and this will elad to the majority revolting agaisnt diversity and inclusion. and what happens next? the Diversity and inclusion hries wind up persecuted and killed and after that anyone who promote anti-white racism, antimen discirmiantion, Marxism, wokeism, transgdnerism, Diversity and inclusion widn up next on the chopping block
notwokeshows
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Jun 20, 2023
So from this point on there will be two different awards, a pre institutionalized racism award, and a post institutionalization award. My guess is a new sort of publicly vetted and voted on cyber academy award will be created by movie fans and that will be more descriptive of merit than the skin-color, gender fluidity, sexuality and child grooming awards of the academy. That should be fine too.