"Woke"-ieism Ruins Everything
Now it's "Kimberlé Crenshaw's List" -- or stories from the Holocaust era with Goebbels played by Samuel L. Jackson and Lucy Liu as Eva Braun. https://t.co/ifSZvDSHcf
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) September 9, 2020
The story on "Diversity Rules for Best Picture Oscar" from The New York Times' Nicole Sperling -- with the photo caption: "To take the top Oscar, filmmakers will have to explain how their productions reflected diversity on camera and off."
In June, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which oversees the Oscars, said it would add a diversity component to the Oscar race. On Tuesday, it explained how it's going to work.Beginning in 2024 with the 96th Oscars, films hoping to qualify for the best picture category will have to meet inclusion standards both on camera and behind the scenes.
To meet the onscreen representation standard, at least one of the lead actors or a significant supporting actor must be from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, whether that means Asian, Hispanic, Black, Indigenous, Native American, Middle Eastern, North African, native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.
There are alternatives: Thirty percent of all actors in secondary or more minor roles could come from two of the following categories: women, L.G.B.T.Q., an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, or those with cognitive or physical disabilities. Or the main story line must focus on an underrepresented group.
The move is part of a continuing effort to improve inclusion both within the organization and in the movies it honors. Over the years, the academy has come under fire for presenting all-white acting slates at nomination time, a fault many attribute to both the homogeneous makeup of the organization and the industry at large. These standards are meant to address the broader industry issues.
"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," the academy's president, David Rubin, and chief executive, Dawn Hudson, said in a statement, adding that the pending standards will "be a catalyst for long-lasting, essential change in our industry."
Movies filled with token disabled people to get in under the Oscar wire. Sounds like a huge improvement, especially when Irish films need to cast a Chinese actress to play James' Joyce's wife to get consideration.
Genius idea, too, just when everybody's staying home to watch streamed TV.
PS Remake movies into appropriately "woke" movies! For example:
"My Dinner with Andre Braugher"
— furious_anonymously_sourced_a (@furious_a) September 9, 2020
30% seems pretty high. Though I suppose finding gay actors shouldn't be too difficult.
Nice to know that even with all the wokeism Hollywood still doesn't care about female under-representation! No surprise, the transactivism pretty much prove the left do not GAF about women.
There are two major flaws
1) Society is still pretty segregated, even more so on an international scale, so making movies about any one segment of society will be difficult. It would be easier to make more movies with all-minority casts. How are you going to make a movie about Finland, or China, or Cameroon, or Westchester, or anywhere if your cast has to be diverse?
2) Even more challenging will be finding the techies and other behind the scenes people. In my experience with film (limited but non-zero) and theatre they are overwhelmingly white.
How are the unions responding to this?
I wonder if this will eventually lead to a new prize-giving body.
NicoleK at September 8, 2020 10:38 PM
Oh I take it back, women are included in the list. That makes it easier since if you're making a movie about a specific ethnic group, you cast women. Still though, means a lot less war movies and the like.
NicoleK at September 8, 2020 10:41 PM
Five years ago I visited the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson. Amidst the stunning aircraft, the docents struggled to describe, with kiosks and triptychs and slideshows, the enormous contributions black women had made to American warfare aviation in the twentieth century.
It was a tough sell.
Crid at September 9, 2020 5:21 AM
I'm betting those have to be gay characters to satisfy the Woke requirements.
Conan the Grammarian at September 9, 2020 6:44 AM
It doesn't have to be on-screen actors. It can be a combination of crew, interns, or marketing executives. The full policy is in this article: https://deadline.com/2020/09/academy-shakes-oscar-best-picture-eligibility-1234573172/
clinky at September 9, 2020 7:06 AM
Hint to movie producers:
People pay to go to see movies based on perceived entertainment value.
Not based on race, gender and ideological leanings of cast and crew.
I see a great future for woke movie bombs.
Jay at September 9, 2020 8:22 AM
A great piece from Sonny on the economics of all this.
Crid at September 9, 2020 10:54 AM
The last few star wars movies went woke and it ruined them. When Dunkirk came out, there were complaints about a lack of minority actors--though in 1939 there were few to no black soldiers in the british army (or in Britain). Good luck making The Godfather or Goodfellas if the mafia has to include minorities and gays.
Countries with racial/ethnic quota systems have bred deep resentment. Good move Woke scolders.
cc at September 9, 2020 11:35 AM
You can alwys pull a JK Rowling and just tell people the character is gay, when it isn't in the movie because it has nothing to do with the plot
NicoleK at September 9, 2020 11:38 AM
Decades ago I realized that any movie receiving a Best Picture award was virtually guaranteed to be an insomnia cure. This just seals the deal.
Rex Little at September 9, 2020 1:43 PM
Now that media companies can go back to own their own movie theaters in the USA I predict that that Hollywood's magic-like accounting is gonna be even more magical.
Sixclaws at September 9, 2020 3:43 PM
The silver lining here is that this will likely push more Americans to do as I've done: Abandon Hollywood and the media it controls completely. That way you're not subsidizing the Fake News.
Of course it may become more difficult as the Big Six multinationals concentrate more of the media, and even phone and Internet services, in their hands.
jdgalt at September 9, 2020 6:03 PM
"It doesn't have to be on-screen actors. It can be a combination of crew, interns, or marketing executives"
So then an all white cast with a white director can get into the category by making sure every last unpaid intern is black?
lujlp at September 9, 2020 8:26 PM
This is support for institutionalized lying.
They might as well call it Minitru.
Radwaste at September 10, 2020 6:06 AM
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