[HIGHLIGHTS] New Academy Rules Require Representing Minorities to Be Nominated for Oscars

The new rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, announced in September 2020, will require from the next edition that minimum standards of diversity are met. Aspiring films must meet two of four categories that favor underrepresented ethnic groups and minorities.

Richard Dreyfuss, the 1977 Oscar winner, lashed out last week against the new rules. He says it makes him "want to throw up." And less in a Hollywood transformed after #OscarsoWhite and #MeToo.