Oscars voters slam Hollywood inclusion standards amid new diversity rules
foxnews.comThe Academy Awards are facing much criticism after implementing new diversity and inclusion guidelines for 2024. The guidelines must be adhered to by any film in the running for a "Best Picture" Oscar.
Several voting members sounded the alarm after the Academy Awards released its Aperture 2025 initiative -- a sweeping set of regulations designed to make Hollywood more equitable and diverse. "It’s completely ridiculous," one director said during an interview with The Post. "I’m for diversity, but to make you cast certain types of people if you want to get nominated?
That makes the whole process contrived.The person who is right for the part should get the part. Why should you be limited in your choices?
But it’s the world we’re in.This is crazy." Beginning in 2024, film producers and directors will be required to submit to the Academy a dossier of the sort that points to the race, gender, sexual orientation and disability status of their film’s cast and crew members.
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