The winner of this year’s Oscar for best actress could be the last as the entertainment industry marches toward gender neutrality, eliminating sex-specific honors in a bow to the gender-identity movement.
The Academy Awards face mounting pressure to follow the Grammys, the MTV Movie and TV Awards, the Gotham Awards and the Spirit Awards by replacing the male and female acting awards with “best performer” or “best performance,” as entertainers increasingly identify as nonbinary and transgender.
“It makes sense for every awards organization that still uses it to scotch this outdated categorization,” said the Dec. 21 staff editorial. “Why shouldn’t performances by all actors, regardless of gender designation, be judged together? They all work together in a movie or TV show. And the categorizations don’t fit every performer.”
The Academy Awards did not respond immediately to a request for comment. This year’s awards show at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood airs Sunday on ABC-TV. “I don’t know if it would be even fair at this moment still because I do feel like the vast majority of the projects still have men leading them and a lot of the parts are still written and are better for men,” Ms. Arquette said.TalkTV in February: “I know that if my name was just put up as ‘best actor’ against lots of men, I wouldn’t have a chance. But as ‘best actress,’ you might.”
“It turns out that the Oscar awards for non-acting jobs are gender neutral and our report shows that even then, with gender neutral awards, White men receive most of the nominations,” said WMC President and CEO Julie Burton. “Why is that? It could be because most of the people who vote for these awards are White men. Changing the mix of who gets to vote might change the outcome of who gets recognized.
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