As this inequality persists, members of the film community are campaigning for structural solutions.
In a guest column last month for “The Hollywood Reporter,” Martha M. Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, argued for an. In 2010, the academy raised the cap on best picture nominees to 10; in Lauzen’s scenario, the number of best director nominees would be equal to best picture contenders each year.
“Expanding the number of directors nominated in the category would increase the chances that women and members of other underrepresented groups would be included, without diminishing the significance of the award or patronizing the nominees,” Lauzen writes. Of course, there’s no guarantee that more slots would lead to more diversity. Indeed, it’s possible that we would have nine or 10 male nominees instead of the more traditional five.
There’s no guarantee that more slots would lead to more diversity. Indeed, it’s possible that we would have nine or 10 male nominees instead of the more traditional five., who could have been nominated this year for her festival hit “Honey Boy,” spoke out in Entertainment Weekly for what would certainly be a more controversial alteration of the rules. She advocates for two director awards, in male and female categories.
"The status quo will always protect itself by getting women and underrepresented filmmakers to play a game they can’t win. By making us believe that anything other than breaking into the white boys’ club is failure,” Har’el explains. To the filmmaker, providing female directors a category of their own isn’t exclusion, but instead, a way to “build a new world that celebrates us.
THINK Why bother with trophies at all, then? Winning one is meaningless now.
THINK Let's start with the NBA and see how it goes
THINK Going to go out on a limb and guess the writer of this silly opinion is part of the Participation Trophy generation.
THINK Aren’t those hollow victories though? If I was a PoC and I won an award simply for being non-white isn’t that worse than not having my work be better than everyone else’s?
THINK !WWwEee who ist the prod child that thinks your money I really yours
THINK Can we stop pretending that the best director nominees are awarded just because they're men and also stop pretending women should be nominated by virtue of the fact they're women. This is absurd.
THINK Keep making movies?
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