The Academy Award for Best Picture, starting in 2024, will go to a film that meets a series of criteria designed to ensure adequate representation of underrepresented racial and sexual minorities.
Will Hollywood finally stop being so racist? Bill Whittle says we’re now less than three years from an Oscar for Best Black Picture.
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New Oscar Standards Says Best Picture Contenders Must Be Inclusive to Compete [Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2020]
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Who even watches or cares about the Oscars any more.
Same with the No Fans League.
A large aperture diminishes depth of focus.
Since these standards don’t go into effect until ’24, will this virtue signaling be quietly forgotten over the next 4yrs?
Friend of mine had the best take on Madonna about 20yrs ago.
Ewww… GamGam’s trying to be sexy again.
How is Brie Larson’s new YouTube channel doing anyway?
Interesting that the most liberal, progressive industry in the country turns out to be the most prejudiced, by their own claims, in the country.
OK – I will go there. Does anyone really think that anything done in Hollywood is underrepresented within the LGBTQWERTY community? Sounds like a lot of people will have to come out to win their awards.
Those people in the LGBTQDVORAK community might still feel left out.
They’ll have to add a few more letters.
Only a deeply committed racist is able to see racism everywhere and produce a deeply racists program to eliminate the racism they believe they see. Then claim virtue signaling rights from the fact they are fighting racism in the most racist way possible. Intellectual dishonesty is just the beginning of the error they project.
Movies? I haven’t see a “new” movie in decades that was worth watching for free let alone paying to see in a public movie house. I have watched a few old classics on TV that were worth watching for free but the new stuff is as tasty as week old sun baked garbage.
Yes, the only way to really reduce/ remove racism is to ignore race in any situation where it is not relevant* – do not focus on it and it becomes a non-issue. Witness young children who play together comfortably based on their perceptions of their interactions (who is fair and nice to them, and who is not), since they haven’t been “educated” about race issues as something that “really matters”.
*Medical differences and reporting the appearance of alleged criminal perpetrators might still be relevant?
I haven’t been to a movie theater in years; the last film I saw in one was Interstellar. I haven’t heard of a movie that I want to see badly enough to take the time to watch, in a theater or streaming, since that 007 movie where Judy Densch died. (Can’t even remember the title.) I haven’t watched the Oscars or any other awards show in at least 30 years. On TV, the only things I watch at all anymore are football, MLB once the playoffs start, and, until its last season runs, the TV series Lucifer on Netflix. (It’s fun. 😜)
(Back when I was still acting in local theater, my apathy toward anything to do with Broadway, especially the personal lives of well-known performers, completely baffled my fellow thespians. A few years ago I posted on Facebook that I was sad that I had lost all respect for someone I had previously admired, a friend I knew as personally as one can via only the internet. A theater acquaintance replied, “I know how it feels. Mine was Louis C.K.” I don’t think he understood when I answered that it was someone I knew personally and that I couldn’t care less about the private lives of celebrities. I hadn’t mentioned my friend’s name.)
My point is, Hollywood isn’t going to increase its chances of attracting my engagement with any of this crap it keeps pulling. Other than occasionally seeing a photo of an actress that makes me think, “Oo! She’s gorgeous!” I simply have no interest in what the entertainment industry produces.
I’ve heard that there are 100,000 people in the world that exactly match one’s interests and opinions. Well, then that’s 100,001 that Hollywood has lost to date.
Michael – I spent the weekend with my brother and sister, and my brother and I were trying to figure out the last movie we had each seen in person. I absolutely cannot recall. It must have been one of the Marvel ones, but I don’t remember which. He could not either.
Movies are generally not made for middle aged people, of any ethnicity. I much prefer watching from my family room, and then if it stinks, I turn it off.
I haven’t done community theatre in 20+ years, but I also recall people talking about stage actors with reverence and I had never heard of them.
That might be a bigger factor than I had previously thought although, as my children and grandchildren will tell you, I have a “younger” taste in entertainment than most grownups. Although she’s outgrown it now, I used to love watching the toddler’s show, Pocoyo, with my granddaughter (Pato is just a super cool character 😁), I followed Dragonball Z with my sons,* and a lot more.
But you have a point there.
*I came up with this, Vegeta looking at his own action figure. Read it in his voice for maximum effect: “This is absurd! It doesn’t look anything like me! And look at that ridiculous hair!
I remember seeing an explanation of how movies are made for target audiences in order to maximize the number of butts in the seats. As it turned out, because of how people will go with other “demographics” to see any given movie (e.g. that a parent will go with a child, a girlfriend with a boyfriend, etc.), that the optimum target audience is teenage boys. Definitely seems apparent these days.
Teenage boys? Did you just assume their age and gender? Raaaaciiiiisssssss!!! 😉
BTW, for a few good, relatively recent movies for grownups, see Chocolat, Laws of Attraction, and one of my favorites, The Thomas Crown Affair (the 1999 remake with Pierce Brosnan).
Interesting that you have The Thomas Crown Affair as relatively recent. 😉
We actually watched that and the original on successive nights in April. I like the remake better, thought the original was still good.
A couple weeks back, my wife had to stay with her folks as they were not feeling well, I watched Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Probably one of my favorites. A non-Hitchcock, Hitchcockian type of movie.
Audrey is my forever-love. 🥰
As for “relatively recent,” I still think of Some Girls as “new Stones.”
Michael – Harold, don’t you have any other music, you know, from this century
Harold – There is no other music, not in my house.
Michael – There’s been a lot of terrific music in the last 10 years
Harold – Like what?
From a “relatively recent movie” that I bet you can name.
You know, Kevin Costner was in that, as the dead friend. All his bits got cut, though.
And that’s why Kasdan cast him in Silverado. Kasdan used a lot of the same actors over and over. I actually really liked Silverado. Fun movie.
Oooh, oooh! I can answer this one! Ford vs. Ferrari. Amazing!
That was on my list to see at home in the leisure of my family room. Still haven’t though I heard very good things from everyone who did and almost no bad.
Guess it’s not eligible with the new criteria, though.
Still haven’t seen Once upon a time in Hollywood. Started it an the rest of the family wasn’t interested. By the time I got back to it, no longer available in Prime. And I am cheap. It will come around again.
I betcha tht people like my mother stop watching the Oscars very soon, now that they have become a fundamentally racist event.