This is why Hollywood is no longer trusted or respected. The Oscar folks created special criteria to make sure the movie “Reagan” could not get a Best Picture Nomination. At the same time they nominated a MAN for the Best Female Actress nomination. That is how sick they are.
The Hollywood Left want men destroying female sports. Now they want to end women getting parts meant for women—I hope Streep, Cher, Mirin realize they are killing off women in movies.
“No conservative could honestly have expected the 2024 biopic “Reagan” to be a viable contender for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars. Ultraliberal Hollywood could never honor a film that dares to depict our 40th president as a hero.
But the fact that it’s officially ineligible for nomination because it doesn’t meet new diversity requirements? What an indictment of the industry that, ironically, catapulted Ronald Reagan onto the public stage years before he ran for office. This is political correctness on steroids.
To be eligible now for a Best Picture nomination, a film must meet at least two of four “inclusion standards.”
Looks like the Oscars are an affiliate of the KKK. Shame on them.
The Ludicrous Reason Hollywood Barred ‘Reagan’ From a Best Picture Nomination
Ed Feulner, Daily Signal, 1/26/25 https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/26/the-ludicrous-reason-hollywood-barred-reagan-from-a-best-picture-nomination/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGYS5mJTHnXOMiEBzYlECb32sQtjAmwmJs5u2D1Ke_sQHaETcmF4NQMfy_8icpYQpgKNAJct5-5jS-R61s7usTIrJM3lcOsJ6Fmn5RpmaoA1xHn_iM
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No conservative could honestly have expected the 2024 biopic “Reagan” to be a viable contender for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars. Ultraliberal Hollywood could never honor a film that dares to depict our 40th president as a hero.
But the fact that it’s officially ineligible for nomination because it doesn’t meet new diversity requirements? What an indictment of the industry that, ironically, catapulted Ronald Reagan onto the public stage years before he ran for office. This is political correctness on steroids.
To be eligible now for a Best Picture nomination, a film must meet at least two of four “inclusion standards.”
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One ensures that “at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors … is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.” The list ranges from “African American” and “Hispanic or Latina/e/o/x” to “Pacific Islander” and “Southeast Asian.”
Race isn’t the only accepted category. You can also appease the Academy by ensuring that your cast, crew, or those who distribute or market the film are women, LGBTQ, or “people with cognitive or physical disabilities.”
The list goes on, but the intent is obvious: to check every box possible on the far-left’s approved checklist.
Imagine the chilling effect this will have on Hollywood. Some fine films will surely be rejected in the proposal phase because they won’t easily conform to these “standards.”
Consider some past Best Picture winners that would be disqualified today. 1970’s “Patton,” for one. Sure, it would be historically inaccurate to make the players in this World War II film a multigender, rainbow-colored group, but good luck capturing the top prize at the Oscars otherwise.
Or how about 1972’s “The Godfather”? Just look at the cast. So male, so white, so straight. Mind you, that’s the logical way to go if you’re making a film about the Italian mafia in the middle of the 20th century, but it also means your chances for a Best Picture statuette will be sleeping with the fishes.
Or take 1984’s “Amadeus.” It took some great writing, acting, and directing to mount this dramatic tale of the rivalry between Wolfgang Mozart and Antonio Salieri. It also took a very homogeneous cast for a story set in 18th-century Europe. But that alone would eliminate it as a possible Best Picture today.
Other past winners in this category: “Annie Hall.” “Rocky.” “Kramer vs. Kramer.” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The list, like the Oscar broadcast itself, goes on and on.
It’s true that “Reagan” isn’t alone in being excluded this year. The “standards” knocked more than 100 films out of contention.
But no one expected “Sonic the Hedgehog 3,” “Madame Web,” and “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” to snag a Best Picture nod. “Reagan,” however unpopular it may be politically, at least deserved to be nominated. The fact that Hollywood is excluding from Best Picture films that don’t genuflect at the altar of diversity is a sad commentary.
“There’s a loss of freedom of expression,” Dennis Quaid, the actor who portrays Reagan, said of the new rules. “Back in the ’70s, [Hollywood] may have been skewed to the left, but everybody was trying to be politically incorrect back then. It was an exciting time. We had a real dialogue with people instead of trying to fit into a mold.”
Making a high-quality film isn’t the primary goal anymore. Feeling good about it is. You may lose money hand over fist at the box office, but at least you can hold your head high at the fashionable parties and assure your snobby friends that you employed the right number of people from all the approved categories.
There’s nothing wrong with having a diverse cast or crew. Film producers should be free to hire the most qualified person for each role or job. Nothing could be more American than following a merit-based system that doesn’t exclude anyone with the proper qualifications from consideration.
But those qualifications should be confined to one’s talent or ability to do a particular job—not membership in a special protected class. To mandate otherwise means instituting a decidedly un-American practice: quotas. Yet it’s just as wrong to include people based on their gender, race, or other factors as it is to exclude them.
In 1983, Reagan signed the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. into law. In 2025, Hollywood is discriminating against a Reagan biopic because it is insufficiently diverse.
It’s the kind of farce that would make a good movie. Too bad it couldn’t win Best Picture.
The irony is rich; the same scumbags who want to nominate a MALE for Best Actress actually have a LOW opinion of us males. In fact, misandry has been rampant in Hollywood for decades. Let’s just say I’m no advocate of feminism because it’s more about tearing men down than lifting women up(in fact, authentic feminists actually feel that, no matter how much women are lifted up, it’s not enough if men are NOT reduced to second-class citizenship, but that’s another story), but to nominate a male for best ACTRESS is like nominating a female for best actor. Also, YES, I believe males should be cast as males and females should be cast as females and there is NO justification for casting men as women or vice versa. While I’m not saying the quality of TV shows and movies is based on their demographics, the show “Entertainment Tonight” was better when the hosts were likelier to be White women than when they added more men and minorities; that reminds me, what we would call the “woke” crowd today threw a hissy fit when the 1999 Fall TV schedule had shows with almost no nonwhites. Even though I’m Black and, at the time, was more liberal than I’d be within the next year or less, I NEVER did bow down to “identity” politics and didn’t object to the lack of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians in the TV shows, and my views on the matter would have me called, both then and now, an Uncle Tom; in fact, it’s safe to say much of my inability to get “arrested” is because of my refusal to worship at the altar of ethnocentrism(I’m a singer and, let’s just say my singing voice and musical style will have record companies tell me I’m not “Black enough”. I also have some movie ideas that will not please people who think I should be more “woke”, meaning my refusal to cater to R&B radio in music and my refusal to do the “Left” thing is why I’m equally not where I want to be in movies and/or TV). However, NO demographic has been as much a scourge to society and/or show business as the LGBTQ+ crowd.