After allegations of discrimination: The Oscar gets colorful – Tagesspiegel

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Update want Following the protests and boycott announcements due to the nomination of exclusively white actors the Oscar-Akademy make its membership more diverse.

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After fierce criticism the nominations of exclusively white actors for this year’s Oscars, the Film Academy has announced reforms in Hollywood: It would “historic action” taken to ensure that by 2020, twice as many women, blacks, and members would be taken into account of minorities, said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with. This should include “new members, representing more diversity,” are appointed. The changes should show “immediate effect,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone

Bad Odds:. 23 percent of women, 2 per cent blacks and Latinos

About the Academy Award nominations currently are 6261 members of the Academy – the great majority of them are older white men. According to a study of the “Los Angeles Times” are 77 percent of Academy members are male and only two percent of blacks and Latinos, 94 percent were white. As in 2015 they were aware at the nominations no black actor – although several were among the favorites

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The Academy will now be starting this year new members a ten year old suffrage, which is renewed when they have participated in this time in movies. After three ten-year mandates, or if they are nominated for an Oscar, they receive lifelong suffrage. In order to increase the diversity, the President of the Supervisory Board is now appointed three new councilors for three years that are involved specifically on the inclusion of further new Academy- members.

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Tom O Neill asked by the Oscar-Forecast page goldderby.com if it really sufficient, to change the membership of the Academy. The director Spike Lee, who won an Oscar in 2015 for his life’s work, had demanded and announced to boycott the Oscars a quota. “We can not always use the old excuse that we can not find qualified candidates,” Lee said, “That’s bullshit.” Even George Clooney lamented African American are underrepresented in Hollywood – and “for Latinos it’s even worse.” Will Smith , one of the overridden favorites, wants his wife Jada Pinkett Smith also do not appear at the gala.

2015, the debate was ignited in the few nominations for the film “Selma” about Martin Luther King and spread using the hashtag #oscarssowhite in social media. Meanwhile director Ava DuVernay wrote on Twitter that it was “a good step in a long, complicated journey of color and female actor”.

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Charlotte Rampling fears racism against whites.

The actress Julie Delpy said about the film industry in Hollywood, it was “in this business nothing worse than being a woman” – African-Americans would have it, after all, easier to criticize. She herself had been for the criticism of the composition of the Academy Academy recently still “torn”.

The actress Charlotte Rampling irritated with the accusation that Lee claims were “racism against whites”: “You will never know, but maybe it have black actors simply do not deserve to get into the final selection” , the 69-year-old told the French radio station “Europe 1″. She is nominated for her role in the romantic drama “45 years” as best actress. “Why should we the people eingruppieren? There will always be someone who says: You are too black, too white, not beautiful enough ‘- are we all now classified in order to provide all minorities “, she asked.

(TSP / AFP)

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