Producer of this year’s Oscars is promising audiences that this year’s Academy Awards “Will be the most diverse ever.”
According to an interview with Variety on Monday at the Oscar nominees luncheon. Despite the lack of acting nominees of color, which the Academy cannot control, producers have been working since the #OscarsSoWhite backlash to make sure the Oscars “will have true diversity and will represent what the world looks like.”
But, the effect of the #OscarsSoWhite has impacted Hollywood. In fact, Sylvester Stallone said he asked “Creed” director Ryan Coogler if he should boycott the Oscars, emphasizing that Coogler is the reason he received a nomination.
“I said, ‘If you want me to go I’ll go, if you don’t, I won’t.’ And he goes, ‘No we want you to go.’ That’s the kind of guy he is,” Stallone said.
“I do believe that things will change — it’s just a matter of time,” Stallone said. “Eventually all talent will rise to the top. It’s just a matter of getting, I guess, a new paradigm, a new way of thinking.”
While Sylvester Stallone openly discussed racism in Hollywood, other filmmakers decided to discuss other forms of injustice.
From Variety:
Eddie Redmayne said he hopes “The Danish Girl” continues the conversation about transgender issues. “And yet, what is dumbfounding is that it’s almost 100 years since Lili and Gerda’s story. What’s staggering to me is how long it’s taken and how much of a distance there is to go,” Redmayne said.
