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Oscars Set New Inclusion and Diversity Standards for Best Picture Eligibility

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Also Read: Oscars Academy Nails Diversity Goals for Membership, Eligibility Rules Could Be NextThe standards, which an Academy release said were designed “to encourage equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience,” were put together by an Academy committee headed by AMPAS governors DeVon Franklin and Jim Gianopulos, and were based on similar standards used by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for some of its awards categories, and by the British Film Institute for certain funding eligibility.These rules are not the first time that the Academy has used outside factors to determine Oscar eligibility: In the 1950s, for example, it disqualified anyone who.

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