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The Oscars announce new representation and inclusion requirements for Best Picture eligibility
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Entertainment By Li Cohen Updated on: September 9, 2020 / 7:25 PM EDT / CBS News Oscars set inclusion standards for Best Picture nominees The Oscars have come under fire the past few years for lacking in diverse nominees across its categories. On Tuesday, however, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that movies will now have to meet new representation and inclusion standards in order to be eligible to be nominated for Best Picture one of the "Big Five" categories of the annual event which may make #OscarsSoWhite a trend of the past.The new standards are a part of the Academy Aperture 2025 initiative, and were "designed to encourage equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience," the Academy said in a statement.Similar to years past, the2020 Oscars were criticized for a lack of representation, with film critic Justin Chang noting the nominees felt like a "return, in a lot of ways, to a kind of a...
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