Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded all 20 acting nominations to white performers for the first of two consecutive years, the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite was born.
Since then, the film Academy (the voting body that determines each year's Oscar nominees) has aimed to dismantle its history of racial discrimination.
That's also the goal with the Academy's newly-announced and long-overdue initiative "to develop and implement new representation and inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility by July 31, 2020."One measure that hopes to diversify nominees at the 94th Academy Awards, which honors the films of 2021, is expanding the Best Picture race to an assured 10 nominees.
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