‘Generational’ shift to boost equality not a response to #Oscarssowhite but to reflect ‘best of film culture’,say Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Dawn Hudson
Political correctness played no allotment in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s trudge to double the number of female and black and ethnic minority Oscars voters, say AMPAS president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and CEO Dawn Hudson. Speaking in the wake of the #Oscarssowhite outrage over an all-white acting nominee’s list for a second consecutive year, or the pair said that the recent changes to membership regulations were introduced to reflect the “best of film culture”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com