Richard Dreyfuss Speaks Out About The Academy's New Inclusivity Rules: 'No One Should Tell Me What To Do As An Artist'

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Richard Dreyfuss is one of the most recognizable actors in the history of cinema. Starring roles in films like “Jaws” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” will forever cement him as one of the best of his era.

Oscars’ new diversity and inclusion standards, saying “they make me vomit”.The Jaws actor discussed the Academy’s diversity initiative during an interview with PBS’s Firing Line With Margaret Hoover. The changes, which will come into effect in 2024, will alter the qualifying criteria for the Best Picture category to improve the diversity of its nominees.“They make me vomit,” Dreyfuss said, when asked his view on the changes.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Richard Dreyfuss doesn’t get it, but most grouchy, self-proclaimed keepers of the old Hollywood guard never do when it comes to creating an industry that gives a chance for everyone to thrive.  It was Sept. 8, 2020, and I was one week into my job as the awards editor for Variety when the Academy dropped its bombshell news that as part of its Aperture 2025 initiative, the organization was introducing new representation and inclusion requirements for submitting in the best picture category. There are four standards a film must meet in order to be eligible. So naturally, the news designed to promote and encourage diversity in the Hollywood system was met with divisive reactions. Some, such as Viggo Mortensen, said, “It’s about exclusion, which is discrimination.”

This year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be introducing four new diversity and inclusion standards that must be met in order for a film to be considered for an Oscar nomination.

implemented for next year’s Oscars, saying the new standards “make me vomit.”“This is an art form. It’s also a form of commerce, and it makes money.

J. Kim Murphy Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss issued some criticism for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new diversity and inclusion standards, saying that the updated requirements for Oscar contention “make me vomit.” Dreyfuss’ comments came during a wide-ranging interview on PBS’ “Firing Line With Margaret Hoover,” in which the actor discussed civics education in the United States, partisan discourse and the Academy’s diversity inclusion initiative. “It’s an art. 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. What are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people’s feelings? You can’t legislate that,” Dreyfuss told Hoover. “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.”

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