The LA Times Confirms What We Already Know - The Academy is Old, White and Male

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• Vickie Sampson | March 14, 2012 5:13 PMReply

  Funny... I'm an Academy member (of the sound branch) and no one has ever polled me on anything regarding the academy. I know it's true (the stats) but it sure would give it more credibility if indeed they were polling actual Academy members!

• Bigger Brother | March 14, 2012 4:19 AMReply

  I can't see the problem with a private organisation appointing who the hell they like. It's not a public service department that has to enforce quotas. Besides, it would seem that the Academy are overwhelmingly Americans which means that they are excluding some of the best film-makers in the world. Their loss, and Hollywood will succeed or fail on how it conducts its business. Personally, I'd rather watch a well crafted French or eastern European film with subtitles than the formulaeic, predictable, CGI heavy Hollywood fare.
  
  If you misandrists are so enraged by the opinions and decisions of "old white males" then make your own films, form your own Academy, hold your own "Oscarettes" ceremony. Somehow I don't think it would be a ratings winner.

• Alex | March 2, 2012 4:15 PMReply

  http://www.facebook.com/UniteWomen?sk=wall&filter=1
  You want to know where it's REALLY awful that something is dominated by old white males? Try OUR GOVERNMENT. And then DO something about it. Join us.

• debra levine | February 27, 2012 3:34 AMReply

  My predominant impression of the broadcast tonight was hordes of white men, sometimes alone, sometimes in clusters, mounting the stage to collect the naked-guy statuette. The men around Martin Scorsese represent a particularly entrenched crew, Thelma S. notwithstanding.

• Bes | February 21, 2012 3:10 PMReply

  Well that explains a lot.

• Sabrina C | February 20, 2012 5:40 PMReply

  Frank Pierson should be ashamed of himself and the Academy should be ashamed of what he said. The Fox guy wasn't much better. You can hear their white male elitism seeping through the page. It reeks.

• Katie | February 20, 2012 4:21 PMReply

  Thanks for publishing these facts. If we push the Academy enough, they will probably get a few more women and people of color. However, we need to ensure that the women make a feminist difference at the academy and that the people of color challenge white privilege. The male pale Academy wouldn't mind having a few women who support the male-dominated status quo and are happy to be gender decoys.

• LeonRaymond | February 20, 2012 1:14 PMReply

  Wow that's deep, sounds like the same exact stats of members as The Klu Klux Klan!

• kindayahudi | February 24, 2012 2:57 PM

  Definitely not Ku Klux Klan; too many white jewish males on the board.