The Academy Awards has become more and more of an intolerable wokefest every year, and ratings for viewership have dropped consequently.

Back in 2015, #OscarsSoWhite started trending over complaints about the lack of diversity in Oscar nominees.

Personally, I thought that the Academy would add categories like: Best POC Actor/Actress, Best POC Supporting Actor/Actress, Best Film with a Majority POC Cast, etc.  I was wrong, they went the other way.  The new announcement is that to be considered for Best Film, the cast and crew must meet a diversity quota.

Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new representation and inclusion standards for Oscars® eligibility in the Best Picture category, as part of its Academy Aperture 2025 initiative. The standards are designed to encourage equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience. Academy governors DeVon Franklin and Jim Gianopulos headed a task force to develop the standards that were created from a template inspired by the British Film Institute (BFI) Diversity Standards used for certain funding eligibility in the UK and eligibility in some categories of the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) Awards, but were adapted to serve the specific needs of the Academy. The Academy also consulted with the Producers Guild of America (PGA), as it presently does for Oscars eligibility.

For the 94th Oscars (2022) and 95th Oscars (2023), submitting a confidential Academy Inclusion Standards form will be required for Best Picture consideration, however meeting inclusion thresholds will not be required for eligibility in the Best Picture category until the 96th Oscars (2024).

For the 96th Oscars (2024), a film must meet TWO out of FOUR of the following standards to be deemed eligible:

STANDARD A: ON-SCREEN REPRESENTATION, THEMES AND NARRATIVES
To achieve Standard A, the film must meet ONE of the following criteria:

A1. Lead or significant supporting actors

At least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.
• Asian
• Hispanic/Latinx
• Black/African American
• Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native
• Middle Eastern/North African
• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
• Other underrepresented race or ethnicity

A2. General ensemble cast

At least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups:
• Women
• Racial or ethnic group
• LGBTQ+
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing

A3. Main storyline/subject matter

The main storyline(s), theme or narrative of the film is centered on an underrepresented group(s).
• Women
• Racial or ethnic group
• LGBTQ+
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing

The other categories are:

• • STANDARD B: CREATIVE LEADERSHIP AND PROJECT TEAM
  • STANDARD C: INDUSTRY ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITIES
  • STANDARD D: AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT

The details for those are essentially the same for the first category, except they apply to the crew, the interns, and the audience (who the film is intended and marketed to).

Fine, if that’s what they want to do to themselves, so be it.

We will never see a movie like Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, or 1917 nominated again, which will be sad.

The Left has taken Orwell’s 1984 as a how-to manual.  One of the scariest quotes from that book is:

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

So how long after this goes into effect do movies that won Best Picture but don’t meet the current standard get hit with an asterisk and then memory-holed?  Particularly historical dramas.

It will be a shame when Holywood puts an asterisk by Schindler’s List Best Picture award for not being sufficiently diverse.

But what can you do?  The party is always right.