For the first time, the list of new members invited to the institution is made up of 45% women and 36% members of ethnic minorities. A new step for the better
For the first time, the list of new members invited to the institution is made up of 45% women and 36% members of ethnic minorities.
A new step forward for a greater openness towards women and minorities. Regularly accused of being too masculine and too white, the Academy Awards on Tuesday released a list of 819 new members invited to join their ranks this year. In more detail, it is made up of 45% women and 36% ethnic minorities who are “underrepresented in the organization”.
Newcomers include actress Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), Eva Longoria, and French directors Ladj Ly (Les Misérables) and Jérémy Clapin (I Lost My Body). The academy also hired actress Adèle Haenel, a symbol of the new momentum of the MeToo movement in France since director Christophe Ruggia accused her of “repeated inappropriate touching” when she was a teenager in November.
The protagonist of Portrait of a Girl on Fire is also illustrated by the fact that she left the place of the César ceremony with a bang after the announcement that the award for best director went to Roman Polanski, who for many became a symbol of unpunished sexual assault.
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The academy is more international.
In 2016, after years of sharp criticism over the composition of its faculty, which was seen as out of touch with society, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it would double the number of women and members of ethnic minorities by 2020. “The Academy has exceeded both of these goals,” it said in a news release Tuesday.
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If new members accept (which is almost always the case), the proportion of women at the Academy will rise to 33 percent, up from 25 percent in 2015. Seven of the 17 occupational categories represented at the Oscars this year employed more women than men, the Academy said in its statement. This is especially the case in the category of actors, including 2020 that brings us Zendaya, Zazie Beetz (Joker), the next James Bond girl Ana de Armas or Yalitza Aparicio, an indigenous Mexican discovered in Rome, for which she competed for the “best actress” Oscar.
As for “underrepresented minorities”, that is, not all members are white, their number has tripled from 554 in 2015 to 1,787 this year, representing 19% of the workforce. To meet its objectives, the Academy has significantly internationalized in recent years, tripling the foreign workforce, which already exceeds 2,100 (a total of slightly less than 10,000).
likely influence on choice
Only members of the Academy can name Oscar winners, and many believe it is this more open hiring that allowed this year’s crown for Parasite, the first foreign-language film to win the “Best Picture” award. On Tuesday, the Academy invited a dozen members of the South Korean film crew. Its director, Bong Joon-ho, was already part of it.
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Nearly half of the new members are non-American and belong to 68 different nationalities. To increase its diversity, the Academy has also had to expand its workforce, which has now grown from around 6,000 to almost 10,000. As part of American society is in the process of self-examination of its racist past after the death of George Floyd, a middle-aged black man who was suffocated by a white police officer, the Oscars recently indicated that they will implement new rules to increase the diversity of their selection.
Update date: July 1, 2020, 07:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn