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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

What the Oscar Inclusivity Rules Actually Mean

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

A closer look at a new set of standards for best picture contenders, plus discussion of the Venice and Toronto film festivals and a conversation with Unpregnant star Haley Lu Richardson.

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0:00.0

Hello and The Oscar goes to. And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now.

0:18.0

You like me.

0:19.0

I'm the King of the World.

0:21.0

There's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. I'm Katie Rich to the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with our chief

0:39.9

critic Richard Lawson.

0:41.0

Hello.

0:42.0

And our senior writer,

0:42.6

Joanna Robinson.

0:43.8

Hi Katie.

0:44.8

Before we start this week's show,

0:46.2

we've jumped back into record a little addendum

0:49.0

because after we recorded the main part of this week's episode,

0:51.4

the Academy announced some pretty huge new rules. They're called

0:55.3

Inclusion Standards. They won't go into effect until the 2024 Oscars. But if you follow us, you have

1:01.1

probably seen it discussed on Twitter. Twitter basically there's a set of four

1:04.1

different standards and any film that wants to be eligible for Best Picture

1:07.3

must meet two of them and they range from having a diverse cast or a story

1:11.8

about underrepresented people or

1:13.6

having women or people of color or LGBTQ people on the creative team or

1:19.3

working within the studio that made it. There's kind of a lot of different ways to do it, which makes it a little hard to immediately look at it and be like, oh, well, under these rules, Greenbook wouldn't have qualified, because spoiler Greenbook would have qualified. But it's going to be really interesting to watch going forward. So we're still kind of processing this news. Hopefully next week we'll be able to talk more in depth about it. But Joanna and Richard, when you guys first saw this, does it seem like a good idea?

1:43.0

Yeah, I mean at first when I just like looked really quickly at it, I was like, oh, this seems like an

1:47.7

overreachy kind of thing that is going to sort of prove a false point of people who are saying that, you know, all of this social justice

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