Have the Oscar's New Standards Gone Too Far?

 Apparently, the Academy Awards has taken the woke view to the extreme as regards to diversity, inclusion, and neo-sexualism standards...at least that's what Richard Dreyfuss thinks.

Dreyfuss in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

Oscar winner and longtime Hollywood stalwart, Dreyfuss criticized the new Academy requirements, saying, "they make me vomit."

Dreyfuss commented during a recent interview with PBS's Margaret Hoover, "It's an art. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is. What is at risk? Are we really risking hurting people's feelings? You can't legislate that? You have to let life be life. Sorry, but I don't think there is a minority or majority in the country that has to be catered to like that."

Dreyfuss is adhering to a belief that many Hollywood liberals believe - simply that woke beliefs and standards have gone off the rails.

The four newest standards that will be instituted for the upcoming 2024 Oscars which two are required to be considered for Best Picture are:

• Expanding on-screen representation of minorities
• Expanding representation among creative leadership and department heads
• providing industry access and opportunities to underrepresented demographics
• expanding representation in audience development

Dreyfuss in 'Jaws' with Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw

To Cinema Mucho Gusto, these standards are very nebulous and obtuse, and CMG agrees with Dreyfuss that it is impossible to control and legislate an art form and its creators.

 

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Dreyfuss went on the say in the interview that under the new rules he or any other white actors "would never be able to play 'Othello'."

"Am I being told that I will never be able to play a black man? Is someone also being told that if they're not Jewish, they shouldn't play in 'The Merchant of Venice'? Are we crazy? This is so patronizing. It's so thoughtless and treating people, artists, like children."

Richard Dreyfuss