Ed. Print CINEMA | The white actors revived the controversy by stating that you can not measure the quality of an actor is based on whether or not black. Currently 93 percent of the members are white.
The artist Will Smith and his wife in March 2014. The African stars joined the protest against the Academy Awards for his predominantly white members. – Efe
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The Academy Awards announced yesterday that it has approved a number of changes with the aim of doubling its members the number of women and people of different races for 2020, a measure that is intended to ease the controversy over the lack of diversity in the Oscars.
The decision was made unanimously by the board of the Academy in a vote that took place on Thursday night, as affirmed in a statement.
The goal, says the organization, is conducting a series of “substantial changes” to make members of the Academy, its members and voters who are part of the directives branches are “significantly more different “.
” The Academy will lead the change and will not wait for the industry to react, “said the president of the organization, Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
” These new measures will have an immediate impact and initiate the process of a significant change in the composition of the Academy, “he said.
Isaacs said that every new member of the Academy will be for a period of 10 years and will renewed if that person has been active in the film industry during that period.
The votes
In addition, members of the Academy have the right to vote for life after three decades as part of the group, or if they have won or been nominated for an Oscar.
Those who do not meet these requirements will become emeritus members and may not they vote for the Oscars.
The Academy also launched a campaign to identify and recruit new members representing more diversity.
Finally, in management positions will be created three new charges will be nominated by the president and new members will be added to the executive committees of the group, where key decisions about who make up the Academy are taken.
According to figures from the Los Angeles Times in 2012 93 percent of the members of the Academy were white, 76 percent were male and the average age was 63 years.
The controversy over the lack of diversity among the members of the Academy who decide the Oscar has been growing since last week’s Oscar nominations, which for the second year there is no black player in the nominations were announced.
They believe that the debate is racist for white actors
The controversy over the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations are in its peak after valuations Michael Caine and Charlotte Rampling nominee, who believes that the debate is “racist” white actors to point.
“There are many black actors. You can not vote for an actor because of being black. You can not say: ‘I will vote for him. Not very good, but black. I will vote ‘. Have to do a good performance, “he praised the singer of 82 years during an interview on BBC Radio 4.
The British legend, though, was surprised by the absence among the nominees for their work Idris Elba in “Beasts of No Nation”. “I think it was magnificent. I thought I would nominate. Do not you have it done? “He said. Harder has been Rampling, first nominated for an Oscar for “45 Years”, for whom the debate is “racist” for whites.
“You can never know for sure, but maybe black actors were not worth it to be in the final list, “said told French radio Europe 1. The 69 British lady rejected the idea that the Academy set quotas for Oscar nominations. “Why classify people? Today everyone is more or less accepted. “
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