The Department of Justice is weighing an investigation into Hollywood’s recent requirements forcing movie makers to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion in their productions, if they want to be nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards.
The mandates were slowly introduced over the last several years, but for 2024, the Academy declared that “a film must meet TWO out of FOUR of the following standards to be deemed eligible.”
Those standards included: Having “at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group,” specifically “Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, Black/African American, Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native, Middle Eastern/North African, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, [or] other underrepresented race or ethnicity.”
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But wait, it gets crazier.
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