The film academy also announced that, beginning with the 94th Academy Awards in 2021, the best picture category will be set at 10 nominees,"rather than a fluctuating number of nominations from year to year" — a practice that had been in effect since the 2011 telecast.
The efforts are part of an equity and inclusion initiative called"Academy Aperture 2025," a push to"advance inclusion in the entertainment industry and increase representation within its membership and the greater film community." The initiative will include a series of panels called"Academy Dialogue: It Starts With Us" for film academy members and the general public focused on race, ethnicity, history and filmmaking craft. Oscar-winning actress and television personality Whoopi Goldberg is slated to lead a conversation on the"lasting impact of racist tropes and harmful stereotypes in Hollywood films," the academy said.
The changes come as a wide array of media companies and entertainment brands have pledged to create more inclusive internal cultures and produce more representative content amid nationwide protests over systemic racism and structural inequality. The academy has faced intense criticism in recent years over the lack of diversity in its nominees and internal ranks.
Samuel L. Jackson is going to be busy.
Translation: Quota Queens
When certain people can't win a trophy, just change the rules
Keep ugly Ppl out of the movie industry. We don’t want 2 see their faces on film.
How about start giving oscars to everyone because it will never be about the best show anymore.
The purity tests have begun. So I guess movies like parasite will never be able to win again.
So...they’ll no longer be a representation of greatness or achievement.
Fucking finally.
So much for good old fashion talent
Speaking as a “person of color” this is dumb.
So...quotas and setasides?
From now on films about Ku klux klan and white killer black policemen must be balanced: 50% for each color and one death for each side! Inclusion!
I’ll never watch the Oscars again.
Make sure the nominating and judging bodies are representational and the awards will take care of themselves.
Nobody cares anyway. The ratings for all stupid awards shows are getting worse every year. We are sick of stupid celebrities getting recognition for acting. Awards shows are unnecessary.
Just wait, the next thing will be the role the black actor played won’t be good enough, or the role the white actor played was too good and could’ve been played by someone else, then that film will be deemed racist. When does it stop ? Not to mention the other ethnicities!
Expect more black people to win and get nominated just because they're BLACK.
I think the leading roles themselves should have these standards. How many trans actors are ever in the leading role, that's discriminatory
But they were OK with being called Oscar so White, now inclusion is important? Nope, it's their bank account that's important.
Après le front de contestation des femmes, celui des personnes de couleur. À quand celui des Asiatiques,des Vegans...moi je revendique le droit à ce qu'on me fiche la paix.
Of course they did. Not like it should be based on actual merit.
So no Historical movies.
Will there be an Oscars? We don’t really care about these minions anymore.
Okay so will movies be better or worse for this?
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I stopped caring or watching stupid award shows long ago. It’s all bullshit anyway.
Nobody and I mean nobody cares.
Hollywood are cowards.just trying to protect the privileged lives and go with the flow.
Hollywood is dead. Thankfully.
Boring movies to get more boring. Famous people patting each other on the back.
Whatever...,
I never know anymore when a post is actually the stupidest thing I’m going to read that day. Its just one after another these days.
uh huh...
Well I hope they will include all races,otherwise it will be unfair
What an incredibly racist statement.
We need to defund Democrats.
Sounds like racism. Kinda like affirmative action
Idiots
We'll finally see more different second names in the producers credit rolls, then...or not?
Gee.. About time!
We shall see how long that lasts. Hollywood, like so many other corporations, will say anything to stop the protests since white America is so uncomfortable right now. It is only placating language that will shift as soon as black people go silent again.
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Does anyone see movies anymore?
Oh good grief! Holywood is done!
I hope the mobs destroy Hollywood completely.
It only took 90+ years...
Curious if anyone is offended by the Oscar, yet?
Predicting record-low viewership next year
BrittanyFalkers What are the 5 movies eligible so far this year? Oscars will be about a half hour long at this rate..if tiger King wins, I’m out
It's about time! The most creative and talented people I are not exclusively WHITE!
Huh Oh well.
aight oscars are worthless now
I don’t watch the trashy over- politicized award show and could care less who is nominated or wins
It's a pity that many film companies will go bankrupt this year.
Can they get less viewership. Maybe it is time to stop broadcasting all these awards. No one cares anymore.
You can't force me to like blacks
Stopped being relevant in the 80s
2009- Inglourious Basterds 2010- Toy Story 3 2011- Django Unchained Those are the only Oscar nominated movies that I have seen in the last 20 years. Silly rules with quotas won't make me see more.
So the Shawshank Redemption would not win today?
😂
Who cares these days rigged anyway
UROCKlive1 I see the whining about the Oscars suddenly getting political has begun.
Spike Lee - wins in every category next year - the Academy is terrified
So, something that at this stage is a meme and has been pointed out again and again over the years, is only being changed now with the Oscars? What a pile of horse shite.
What about the BEA? Do they need to meet quotas too or just awards that let white people win?
UROCKlive1 Yeah, sure.
How mediocre do you need to be to propose, and even worse to accept an idea like that? Movies and people in general should be awarded because of their talents. Such politically correct impositions only invalidate the Academy Awards.
Here's an unpopular Idea! You want change? You want Police to Change? You want America to Change? How about you Change! No Drugs! No gangbanging! No rioting! No thug Crap!no Stealing! Stop Acting Stupid! Act right!
So will movies about African Americans in the inner city be forced to include a token white guy?
Oh, because the Oscars are SOOO important.... I couldn’t bury my own mother, but the fu*king oscars are allowed
Gold statues offend me
All you people complaining in here are telling on yourselves. This doesn’t affect your life in any way. Why should you care? You just hate to see non-whites get opportunities to contribute. Examine why you feel that way.
LOL Yep just keep making the movies worse. There hasn't been in good movies for a while now. Force anyone to following such idiotic rules you can expect trash. Use whatever actor is the best. I don't care what color they are. With that said, I refuse to support hollyweird.
Must suck to be a white supremacist and watch it all slip away on all fronts.
Jesus H Christ
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Hollywood is dead as no mainstream Hollywood actor is willing or has the BALLS to speak out right now✌🏽
And here I was thinking the Oscars were about superb film making. Silly me.
And Token rolls will be celebrated everywhere.
We move! ✊🏿
WTF?!
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Yep. Not watching. No longer much of an award anymore.
People you need to read the article. What they are doing is good as long as it doesn’t evolve into an affirmative action type of thing. It’s about giving equal chances to everyone who practices the art of filmmaking. And that is a good thing.
Participation trophies...there, fixed it.
I say abolish the Academy awards. I’m sick of them.
Don't mention GF n ur ceremony
Oscars are dead anyway
Omfg.
Delroy Lindo doesn’t need any of that to take it home.
You're really bending over for 13%, and ot of that populationn how many can make good movies? I hope the media is forced to lay in the bed it shits. It
The Oscars won't have to worry. Hollywood most likely died with the BLM movement
Why are there awards in the first place? These Hollywood scumbags like to stroke themselves.
It’s a shame that in 2020 those standards haven’t been in place! Shame
DefundMovies Boycott. We don’t need to pay useless clowns millions of dollars to annoy us. Let them go on unemployment or have to find gainful employment for the first time in their meaningless lives as teacher, plumbers and policemen.
What is an award ceremony not based on competency and merit
That would be 'affirmative action' which is in and of itself racist.
'With that criteria 'Gone With Wind' should get a special award.
Trump2020VictoryNowMoreThanEver DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica
Who cares
This sounds less like an act of good will to me and more like a push in political agenda than anything. So are movies based in historical Europe exempt from nomination now? historical Asia or Africa? Are they just not gonna be nominated cause of 'lack of representation'?
So the left is now trying to dictate how art is created?!?
It is the talent of the cast that matters not the skin colour. Also- if the movie is historically based, and there sholdn't be some of the races, there sholdn't be. Don't use racism as a winnig card everywhere. Use talent.
In other words, before now it didn't matter. 🤔
They can add, change, enhance, delete, and embellish on any standard the Academy wishes and will still not improve their lousy films and award program. No. one. cares.
Affirmative Action for the Oscars now. Smdh.
Do people still watch this Asking for a friend...
And... here comes the conservative outrage!
Who the he’ll watches it anymore I haven’t in years.
Lord of the Rings wouldn't have won or even been nominated had these been the standards when the movies came out.
Usually disagree but on balance might be a good move.
Of course, in a just world everything should be ruined, not only a part of it.
It’s a start.
Just give the stupid things to every black actor.nobody cares.
The Oscars are really upset a Korean film won Beat Picture when it had no white people in it.
Like they were not bad enough they gotta ruin cinematography even more
Who cares.
Fairly certain Hollywood is 99.9% liberal.
Oh okay...
So basically what they're saying is if a white person had a 10/10 quality film it will be given to the black person with a 6/10. Actual quality doesn't matter now identity politics will win awards.
And who writes the standards? Is it a quota thing? Based off what percentages? What is the exact percentage of each race on the planet that will be required mandatory? Hollywood Oscars
Conservatives always get mad about including all races, genders and cultures. This mindset is a dying one. Also I live rent free in the minds of right wingers that respond to this comment.
지금은 회개해야 할 때입니다 우상숭배를 멈추십시오
Are we supposed to really care about this? Hollywood doesn’t live in the real world anyways.
I’m all for inclusion, but if the absolute best film just happens to be an all white cast for a given year, they are gonna be denied best film award? Same goes for actor and actress...
So no Schindler’s List in the future?
The Oscars are gonna get more inclusive, no way I dont believe it.
This world is going to hell
That's laughable. One of the most racist instetutions going.....Allegedly.
NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT RICH PEOPLE EGO STROKES
Finally.
Hollywood has always surrendered to the mob!
This is stupid
And it’s over.
That’s racist. That is the literal definition of racism.
Don’t care, never watching.
Who cares
......i dont think they got what we were asking for........are they dumb like fr TheAcademy are yall dumb
were gonna be seeing A lot more of Scarlett Johansson
Artistic achievement is only worth celebrating if black people are involved.
Hmm Interesting Oscars
fuck yo oscars
Now thats sooooo dumb....
OscarsSoWhite Oscars BLM 🎬
So does that mean everyone gets a trophy for participation?
NOW DO SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL
so basically implementing racial profiling into awards designations...thinking thats a bit racist....because who needs talent!
Omg
oh Another 'safe space' Lets continue to hope all these 'feel good' measures finally work. Jokes
Oscars no longer relevant, time to say goodbye 👋
As Chinese-Americans we don't trust leftists and Dems elites. They have own agenda and use protests to achieve their goals. We've seen how CCP used leftist propaganda to poison people's mind then took control of gov't, and how they killed tens of millions of Chinese thereafter.
Affirmative action for films. thanksdemocrats
Stupid.
So films like “Filthy Rich Asians” and “Parasite” would be banned?
Hopefully only Black Americans will be winning these Oscars and handing them out, or the Oscar's should possibly be taken off television!
GlobalNightVizil 회개함과 거룩함
Want me to tell ya where you can put those Oscars 😝
LOL Oscars are a joke.
jokes on you hollywood...
When the Oscars began, it was just a goofy fundraiser for the Aged Hollywood Actors Home. Typical American narcissistic idiocy turned it into a $$$ religious event. It's vapid and meaningless.
Having a person of color in a film for the sake of it is nonsense. This is like that meme where Netflix adds LGBTQ characters to shows and pretend it's a personality. You want representation but with stories and character development. That's the point. Quotas aren't art.
So affirmative action for movies?
Meaning, the Oscars are canceled for next year.
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