The Academy under Dawn Hudson continues to be a slow-motion car wreck.
It does one thing really well. It covers its ass.
African Americans raged on Twitter about #OscarSoWhite. So The Academy responded by announcing its 2020 effort to bring more women and people of color into The Academy. Without getting into the problems of disenfranchisement that The Academy posited as progress, the reality of 2020 would be that The Academy was able to bring in a lot of women working in the American industry to good effect, but could not achieve the same for American film industry people of color (because there are not enough people of color working in the industry at that level), so they altered the goal. The Academy refocused the expansion overseas, so that people from other countries could be called "of color" to meet the originally announced goals.
I have nothing against The Academy deciding to make a real membership expansion in the international film world. It's a quality group. But the failure t…
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