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Post by Ripley on Jun 28, 2017 19:01:47 GMT -5
FTWD's Colman Domingo (Victor) is one if the new class of Academy members, notable this year for a record on diversity. Fantastic list imo-linked. "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has issued 774 invitations to new members, the Oscar-granting body announced Wednesday. That number is more than the record 683 invitations that were issued in 2016 and well above the 322 invites that went out in 2015 as the Academy has made a concerted effort to diversify its membership ranks by bringing in more women, people of color and filmmakers from around the world. The invitees to the acting branch alone — which numbered a whopping 105 — reflect the diversity the Academy has been pursuing. They include Avengers headliners like Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth; Star Wars stalwarts like Adam Driver, Riz Ahmed, Domhnall Gleeson and Warwick David; box-office stars like Dwayne Johnson, Kristen Stewart and the newly crowned Wonder Woman Gal Gadot; Guardians of the Galaxy's Chris Pratt; comic performers like Leslie Jones, Keegan-Michael Key and Wanda Sykes; recent Oscar nominees like Viggo Mortensen, Naomie Harris and Ruth Negga; and even veteran show-biz legend Betty White, who, at the age of 95, is the oldest of the new invitees. The youngest invitee is Elle Fanning, at the age of 19. The Academy reported that the list, which represents talent from 57 countries, is 39 percent female and 30 percent people of color. Seven of the Academy branches — actors, casting directors, costume designers, documentary, executivt linkes and film editors — invited more women then men..." link
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Post by Rosie on Jun 29, 2017 16:27:50 GMT -5
Another POV on Academy Selection: www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscars-academys-invitation-list-is-well-intentioned-but-misguided-1017509"The bottom line is that the Academy cannot fix the industry's diversity problems any more than a tail can wag a dog," writes THR's awards columnist. "This is not a problem that can be reverse-engineered."
The Academy is the last stop on a film's long journey, should all go well, and if you want to know why the Academy is not nominating more women and people of color, then you need to focus on the earlier stops — the agents and managers, who could nurture the careers of more women and people of color; the studios, which could hire more of them; the distributors and foreign sales agents and marketing execs, who could further push back against assumptions that certain types of audiences will never attend movies featuring certain types of people.
Besides, the Academy's current course is akin to putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. Last year, even with a massive influx of diverse members, the Academy's overall female representation grew only from 25 percent to 27 percent and its overall representation of people of color grew only from 8 percent to 11 percent. And this year, assuming all invitees accept their invitation, overall female representation will only increase from 27 percent to 28 percent and overall representation of people of color will only increase from 11 percent to 13 percent.
At this rate, the Academy might as well do what it did for a number of years decades ago: Invite every member of almost every guild and comparable organization to vote for the Oscars and just call it a day."
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