Woman in Hollywood have got their hands on the gender figures of those nominated in the history of the Academy Awards and they are quite horrifying actually.
They call it “unacceptable” and if women didn’t have their own category for “Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress”, they might struggle to win anything. Can you believe no female director has ever won an Oscar?
And I’m not having a go saying that their is an agenda not to nominate pictures made by female directors. I’m having a go and today am ashamed to be of the male species because Hollywood simply don’t give the opportunity to women directors enough.
source – awards daily
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Erm… “those nominated in the *history* of the Academy Awards”. When the Oscars started, women had been allowed to vote for less than a decade, and were generally not taken seriously in the industrial workplace until World War 2, and even 30 years ago were fighting for equal rights. It’s hardly surprising that a survey over this time period would be skewed towards male nominees.
This kind of survey also fails to take into account the quality of the work. In each year where women were under-represented for Oscar nomination, were there deserving women who were overlooked in favour of men simply due to their gender? Or was the work simply not there? Should Kathryn Bigelow have been nominated for directing Point Break at the expense of better films, just because she’s female? Of course not. What about women like Thelma Schoonmaker who consistently get nominated for their sterling work?
Now, there’s all kinds of arguments here, from whether females are left out because they’re women, because they’re making less deserving films or because they’re not given the opportunities to start. But, in MODERN Hollywood (not counting all awards back to the 1920s), women are getting equal treatment at the awards themselves, IMHO. When a female makes the one of the most deserving films of the year (e.g. Sofia Coppola w/Lost In Translation, Diablo Cody w/Juno), they tend to get at least a nomination.
Agreed. There’s very little quality work coming from women in Hollywood in terms of direction etc, and when it does then they are almost always nominated.
You can’t nominate someone just for the sake of it.