American actor Richard Dreyfuss (75) goes out hard against the rules to ensure representation during the Oscars.
- Starting with the 2025 Academy Awards, new films must meet specific diversity criteria to qualify for Best Picture.
- Actor Richard Dreyfuss slams the demands, which he says make him “want to vomit”. The head of the Oscar Academy defends the rules.
- The background to the demands is inequality in the film industry and the #OscarsSoWhite movement.
Starting with the 2025 Academy Awards, new films must meet specific criteria to qualify for Best Picture.
These changes were announced in 2020, and the film must meet two out of four diversity requirements. Among other things, the Academy will consider whether:
- At least one major representative comes from underrepresented groups.
- If at least 30 percent of those who play in or work with the film represent these groups, such as women, ethnic minorities, queers, or people with disabilities, write guardian.
- On the subject the film focuses on some of these groups.
The new requirements are an attempt to overcome inequalities in the film industry, especially during the Academy Awards – inequalities that inspired the #OscarsSoWhite movement in 2015.
background: Oscar crisis after criticism of “Belinda Hvitt”
The 75-year-old American actor Richard Dreyfuss now says in an interview with PBS that he is adamantly against such rules, CNN writes.
They made me want to vomit.
When asked why, he replied:
Because this is an art form. It is also a form of business and brings in money. But it is an art form. And no one should be able to tell me as an artist that I should succumb to the latest, newest idea of what morality is.
Known for, among other things, the movie “Shark Summer,” Dreyfuss says he believes the practice of granting special rights to certain groups in society is patronize.patronize.Caring means protecting, especially in a condescending way, according to Store norske lexikon.
Oscar Academy President Janet Yang defended the new rules to L.J Sky News earlier this year.
It’s about finding the right balance. We want rules that make sense, that make people aware, but that don’t tell people what to do.
During this year’s ceremony, Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress:
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