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Oscars exploring the idea of gender neutral acting categories


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34 minutes ago, NEX said:

Expand the existing nominations to:

 

Best Actor (Male or Nonbinary)

Best Actress (Female or Nonbinary)

 

And let NB people submit in either category

NB actor will not have a say.

The studio will just end picking whichever is less stacked.

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Who asked for this?

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So it will be just men getting awards...

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This one makes sense. Art, unlike sports, favors no particular sex in terms of raw performance.

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Just like the Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film, scrap it.

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They stay doing things no one asked for...

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the whole gender neutral acting categories is so dumb, reducing 4 acting categorizes to just 2 is unfair both to the men and women. If one year had both men winning, they will say the oscars are sexist and if 2 women win, they will say it's WOKE

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"Actor" can be anyone, so the 0.5% made up of non-binaries should just submit in that.

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1 hour ago, HelloLovato said:

With the current climate, this isn't shocking… I think if they change it at all these are their options.

 

1. create Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance… with 5-10 nominees in each category. The risk there is that the academy nominates more male than female performance each year.

2. Finally create a balloting system where actors/actresses can choose where to submit their performance. It would eliminate the possibility of the branch ignoring campaign strategies and forcing them to nominate the performer in the category they submitted in. That way if a nonbinary actor has the choice of which category they fit best into. Similar to what the Emmys already do.

this is exactly what would happen, which is why they shouldn't do it. It's like what happens to the  Best Director category nearly every year :rip:

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Absolutely to the f** not. 

 

Halle Berry will not be the only actress of African heritage to win BA. 

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I don't know, didn't they introduce the gendered categories to empower women? I feel like in the pursuit of being inclusive they'll just end up halving the chances for women to win any awards

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1 hour ago, Arrows said:

"Actor" can be anyone, so the 0.5% made up of non-binaries should just submit in that.

It's not just about that, the move to gender neutral career titles has been happening for a very long time now and it's unrelated to non binary people wanting to be included. I don't think combining the categories will have the desired result though

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This would be a huge mess, doubt it.

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No thanks

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1 hour ago, LegaMyth said:

Absolutely to the f** not. 

 

Halle Berry will not be the only actress of African heritage to win BA. 

My thoughts exactly

 

Black women and women in colour in general can't even win Best Actress against white women, how the hell would they be able to compete against white men as well if there's one category?

 

This would be so ridiculous and unfair, the non-binary population is not big enough to justify this change and it would only create more backlash against them and the LGBT community smh. 

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Sadly not surprised by some of the takes in here :biblio:

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On 6/21/2024 at 4:57 AM, NEX said:

Expand the existing nominations to:

 

Best Actor (Male or Nonbinary)

Best Actress (Female or Nonbinary)

 

And let NB people submit in either category

Thats not a bad idea, but my non binary friends wouldn't like being put in either category, so they wouldn't like it. 😀

 

it would have to be a complete non binary category to work for them. 

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Best Performance: 10 nominees. Two winners.

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