The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are setting a new diversity standard for movies to even be considered for ‘Best Picture’ at the Oscars and that standard could ruin the movie industry.
Here’s more from the New York Post:
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).
A full outline of the standards can be found on the Academy site.
According to the Post, this has some of the people who vote for the Oscars outraged:
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.”
Richard Dreyfuss certainly agrees.
In discussing the new standards of inclusion with “The Firing Line” on PBS last month, the veteran actor blasted the rules: “They make me vomit.”
Describing movies as “an art form” and “a form of commerce,” the “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” actor continued, “No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.”
An industry insider related to The Post, “Their goal is not to disqualify any films, but rather to celebrate and encourage progress towards greater representation and inclusion in the industry.”
One of Hollywood’s biggest producers told The Post that very few people in the industry favor the new rules — but, unlike Dreyfuss, they don’t speak out for fear of cancel culture.
“Everyone thinks the Academy went too far. It’s ridiculous to tell us we have to regulate our work,” he said. “We talk about it amongst ourselves but it’s not worth speaking up publicly.”
There you go. This is the end result of the leftist cancel culture. People in the movie industry are too afraid to speak up because the mob might come for their jobs. So they don’t say anything and these ridiculous diversity rules don’t get challenged.
What a world we live in.