And most loophole Oscars… are earmarked for the Academy’s own diversity requirements.
The 96th Academy Awards ceremony, broadcast Sunday on ABC, marks a new chapter in Oscar history. For the first time, all 10 Best Picture nominees had to meet his complex DEI rules, which set quotas on race, gender, and sexuality. But even a casual look at this year’s nominated films reveals that we don’t actually need on-screen diversity.
In fact, you don’t even need diversity behind the camera. A film’s entire cast and crew can be white, heterosexual men and still be considered “diverse.”
Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t have come up with a better joke.
How is this possible? Lots of loopholes.
When the academy announced the new quota four years ago (2024 will be its first year), leaders self-deprecatingly called it “a catalyst for long-term, fundamental change in our industry.” is.
The reality is not so groundbreaking. Like many things in Hollywood, it’s mostly a fantasy. His DEI duties at the academy are divided into his four sections. (A) On-screen diversity (i.e., cast and story). (B) Diversity behind the camera (i.e., staff). (C) Industry access (i.e., the studio provides internships and training to women and minorities). (D) Audience development (i.e., women and minorities in executive roles in studio marketing, PR, and distribution);
Under Academy rules, a film only needs to meet two of four requirements to be considered for Best Picture. This means that if the movie satisfies C and D, you can skip A and B. If a studio hires a large number of minority interns and some of its marketing executives are also minorities, any film it releases will automatically be considered “diverse” under Academy rules. Become. .
Another loophole is that the academy considers women, regardless of skin color, to be a minority. As a result, a movie can use a white woman to fill her A, B, C, and D and still be graded as “diversity.”
The same loophole applies to LGBTQ+ people.
The Academy’s quotas appear to be designed to give studios ample leeway to fudge the results. The rules are both ridiculously specific and ridiculously broad. After all, in theory, almost any film can be called “diverse.”
this explains why oppenheimer Eligible for Best Picture Award. Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, an all-white straight white man, is the antithesis of the woke left’s definition of “diversity” and falls into Category A. . Emily Blunt and Emily Blunt are the only non-white men. Florence Pugh, whose role is so small it feels like a glorified cameo.
oppenheimer It meets B because of the white women who served as editors, costume designers, production designers, and set decorators.
Universal — the studio behind it oppenheimer — C and D can easily be met and the film’s diversity requirements are met.
In the first year of the Oscars celebrating DEI mandates, that would be the biggest irony. oppenheimer Awarded the best work award.
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