Manori Ravindran International EditorBAFTA has come out in support of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new standards for representation, with hopes that a uniform set of diversity requirements can apply to both the Oscars and BAFTA Awards.Marc Samuelson, chair of BAFTA’s film committee, tells Variety, “BAFTA has worked for the last three years with the BFI, and has been consulting with AMPAS, with the hope being that between the three organizations, we can create standards that will apply everywhere.“It means that all of the various awards can be subject to passing diversity standards.
That should in turn galvanize the progress of diversity across the whole industry,” said Samuelson.AMPAS on Friday revealed plans to.
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