Summary
The organizers of the Oscars have invited a record number of new members to vote in next year’s Academy Awards, in response to criticism of a luck of diversity at this year’s ceremony. The members are mostly white, male and over 60. The percentage of male membership is nearly 80 and white is over 90. There are currently more than 6000 members of the academy. Almost half the people who have been asked to join are women and almost as many are people of colour. For the second year in a row, all of acting nominees at February’s 88th Academy Awards were white, sparking an outcry. The protests led to an unprecedented debate about racial equality in the film industry.
Opinion
That’s news to me that there are a racial discrimination and a sexual discrimination even in the film industry. Women and colors are often discriminate in their places of work, for the types of job and salaries. The film industry places the importance at actors’ and actresses’ ability, so it seem unaffected by such a discrimination. But there are. The efforts of the organizers of the Oscars is nice idea. It is because the tendency of this world has been to decrease the gap between male and female, white and color and so on. I hope that the day the people who live in this world will be possible to evaluate each other without considering their differences will come someday.