{"id":213654,"date":"2020-09-17T06:18:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213654"},"modified":"2020-09-19T06:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T06:17:58","slug":"academy-announces-new-inclusion-standards-for-best-picture-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213654","title":{"rendered":"Academy Announces New &#8216;Inclusion Standards&#8217; for Best Picture Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lindsay Kornick \u2013 mrcNewsBusters Sept 9, 202<\/strong>0<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017-Academy-awards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-147792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017-Academy-awards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In Hollywood\u2019s continuing attempt to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/christian-toto\/2020\/02\/15\/are-liberal-media-finally-fed-woke-hollywood\">eat itself<\/a><\/strong><\/span> through wokeness, the Academy has finally released a new inclusion initiative needed to qualify for the Oscars. If you\u2019ve been thinking movies have become unwatchable now, just wait until they meet Academy standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On September 8, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/awards\/oscars\/oscars-representation-inclusion-requirements-best-picture\/\">announced<\/a><\/strong><\/span> new representation and inclusion standards for Oscar eligibility as part of its Academy Aperture 2025 initiative. According to the initiative, filmmakers will now be required to submit a confidential Academy Inclusion Standards form to be nominated for Best Picture for the 94<sup>th<\/sup> and 95<sup>th<\/sup> Oscars ceremonies. However, they will not be required to <em>meet<\/em> all the inclusion thresholds in the form until the 96<sup>th<\/sup> Oscars in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What exactly are these requirements? From the looks of things, they seem to be Hollywood\u2019s version of racial quotas. Now, a movie must not only be good (though that\u2019s been debatable in recent years), but it must also prominently feature \u201cunderrepresented\u201d groups in some way, shape, or form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Here is the breakdown for just one of the standards films will need to fulfill:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>STANDARD A: ON-SCREEN REPRESENTATION, THEMES AND NARRATIVES<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To achieve Standard A, the film must meet ONE of the following criteria:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>A1. Lead or significant supporting actors<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Asian<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hispanic\/Latinx<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Black\/African AmericanIndigenous\/Native American\/Alaskan Native<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Middle Eastern\/North African<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Other underrepresented race or ethnicity<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>A2. General ensemble cast<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Women<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Racial or ethnic group<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">LGBTQ+<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u00a0<em>A3. Main storyline\/subject matter<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The main storyline(s), theme or narrative of the film is centered on an underrepresented group(s).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Women<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Racial or ethnic group<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">LGBTQ+<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There are three other standards listed in the full breakdown. Films will need to fulfill a minimum of two to be qualified for the Best Picture category. Of course, Academy President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson praise this move in their joint statement saying, &#8220;The Academy is committed to playing a vital role in helping make this a reality. We believe these inclusion standards will be a catalyst for long-lasting, essential change in our industry.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Change is certainly coming, but not for the better. Leftists have\u00a0been complaining <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/corinne-weaver\/2017\/09\/14\/hollywood-hypocrites-tinseltown-racist-and-sexist-wants-us\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>for years<\/strong><\/span><\/a> about how \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/ryan-foley\/2018\/03\/05\/cnn-complains-oscars-were-so-white-so-male\">White<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d and \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/scott-whitlock\/2019\/02\/25\/not-woke-enough-abc-cbs-sneer-problematic-inauthentic-green-book\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>problematic<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u201d the Oscars have been, but they have nothing on how problematic this list sounds. Films with mostly white casts like the World War I film <em>1917<\/em> or the Netflix drama <em>The Irishman <\/em>will likely be excluded in favor of angry liberal directors like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/alexa-moutevelis\/2019\/02\/24\/oscar-winner-spike-lee-be-right-side-history-2020-make\">Spike Lee<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The racial quotas will inevitably lead to the whines of \u201ctokenization\u201d despite being unethical anyway, so that will all be for nothing. Finally, some smaller film companies will probably never be considered without the clout or money of major studios to fulfill these standards. How\u2019s that for celebrating film?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/lindsay-kornick\/2020\/09\/09\/academy-announces-new-inclusion-standards-best-picture\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscars will now enforce \u201cdiversity quotas\u201d. 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