Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film Critic“These are not Tablets from the mountain,” Paramount Pictures Chairman Jim Gianopulos told me earlier this morning in explaining how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences went about creating new standards of inclusion and representation for entry in to the Best Picture race.
The controversial new requirements, set to take full effect in 2024, are actually the result he says of taking a wide ranging pulse of the industry. “This was discussed with the industry specifically to get their input and to make sure people embraced them.
And that meant all the studios, all the independent companies, all the guilds, all the players, all the stakeholders in the industry to have their input and to.
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