The move to shake-up the Academy came in the wake of the popular hashtag #OscarsSoWhite which protested the lack of diversity in the US film industry.
It also saw the following year, the likes of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith boycott the Oscars in support of the movement Reign had begun with #OscarSoWhite. 2016 study from the University of Southern CaliforniaThe study found from a pool of 800 films and 886 directors between 2007 to 2015 only 4.1 per cent were women.
In terms of acting roles, 73.7 per cent of roles in that year went to white actors compared to the 12.2 per cent for black actors, 5.3 per cent for Latinx actors and 3.9 per cent for Asian actors. Fast forward to 2020, the scheme seems to be working. Now there are twice as many women members in the Academy, up from 1,446 in 2015 to 3,179 in 2020. Members of colour have increased in that same period more than three-fold: from 554 to 1,787. And international members have also increased from 747 to 2,107.
Why not just ban all White people ? 100% diversity then. If diversity is always the goal then wouldn't that be the thing to do ?
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