The nominations for tonight's Oscars show that the Academy Awards is still a white man's game.
Lulu Wang , Marielle Heller , Lorene Scarfaria and Alma Har'el also could have found themselves on the ballot. Heller was also snubbed in 2019 when "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" failed to garner a directing nomination.
The organization did not disclose the total number of members but did say that the acting branch is the largest of its branches.Additionally, while the Academy provides an overall breakdown of its membership, it does not share the gender, racial or ethnic breakdown of each branch, whether it be actors, directors or screenwriters, and it doesn't share how many people are in each branch.
A prospective inductee could also have been nominated for best director, best picture or best foreign language film, meaning they'd only have had to have released one film in order to be eligible. Since 2016, the Academy has extended directorial branch membership to more than 100 women, according to its lists of annual inductees. It remains unclear what these additions have done to the male-to-female ratio of members. What is clear is that those additions have not resulted in more female directors earning nominations.Columbia Pictures | Sony
That doesn't mean there isn't demand for more diverse films. Jon Chu's "Crazy Rich Asians," based on the best-selling book of the same name, smashed records at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing romantic comedy from a major Hollywood studio in a decade.
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