Richard Dreyfuss criticized the Academy Awards’ diversity and inclusion standards — which go into effect in the Best Picture category in 2024 — saying they 'make me vomit'
“They make me vomit,” the Oscar-winning actor told PBS’of the guidelines. “Because this is an art form. It’s also a form of commerce, and it makes money, but it’s an art. And no one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.
Each standard requires the inclusion of people in underrepresented groups, including women, people from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, LGBTQ+ people, and people with cognitive or physical disabilities or who are deaf or hard of hearing. “What are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people’s feelings? You can’t legislate that,” Dreyfuss added of the Academy’s standards. “You have to let life be life. I’m sorry, I don’t think there is a minority or majority in the country that has to be catered to like that.”
Dreyfuss also decried that no white actor has portrayed Othello on the big screen since Laurence Olivier, who — while Oscar-nominated for the role — did so in blackface. “He played a Black man brilliantly. Am I being told that I will never have a chance to play a Black man?,” Dreyfuss asked. “Is someone else being told that if they’re not Jewish, they shouldn’t play ‘The Merchant of Venice’? Are we crazy? Do we not know that art is art?”
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