Is this how the Oscar acting categories could go genderless?

[Victor Joined: Jun 18th, 2020 Topics: 22 Posts: 10185 View Predictions]

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No need to go genderless, just no.

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[dante Joined: Mar 9th, 2023 Topics: 0 Posts: 294 View Predictions]

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No.

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[dante Joined: Mar 9th, 2023 Topics: 0 Posts: 294 View Predictions]

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I honestly think if there should be any change, it would be to increase the amount of nominations for directing and acting to 6 instead of 5.

Maybe for Original song too.

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[A G Wooding Joined: Jan 29th, 2016 Topics: 1 Posts: 28 View Predictions]

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dante wrote:

I honestly think if there should be any change, it would be to increase the amount of nominations for directing and acting to 6 instead of 5.

Maybe for Original song too.

I wouldn’t mind them going up to 6 in all categories tbh, I don’t think it’s too much.

Personally I’d do away with Best Original Song altogether. If I cared about songs, I’d watch the Grammys. And reduce the shorts categories down to 1. Let them all duke it out for 6 slots

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[Lil Tony Joined: Sep 17th, 2018 Topics: 3 Posts: 3529 View Predictions]

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No need for this. The woke thing shouldn’t get to this level. The VMAs taking out their gendered categories kind of killed them

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[Pablo J Garcia Joined: Jan 11th, 2016 Topics: 0 Posts: 172 View Predictions]

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Best leadind performance
best supporting performance
best voice-over/digital (aka avatar…)

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[dante Joined: Mar 9th, 2023 Topics: 0 Posts: 294 View Predictions]

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pablojgarcia wrote:

Best leadind performance best supporting performance best voice-over/digital (aka avatar…)

No

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[Setia Yasmine Khalil Joined: Jan 14th, 2022 Topics: 1 Posts: 1788 View Predictions]

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NO no need to do that

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[Deemy Joined: Feb 20th, 2015 Topics: 3 Posts: 2935 View Predictions]

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Also actors usually only get one chance to win an Oscar per year meanwhile Directors often times get nominated for Screenplay as well as Picture. I mean The Daniels just won 3 Oscars in one night while some actors will never win one in their life. They should keep it as is.

They could make it more gender neutral by changing the name of the category to :

Best Performance by an Actor in A Male Role
Best Performance by an Actor in a Female Role

This means that the only gender that is being recognized is the gender of the character being played rather than the gender of the actor.

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[A G Wooding Joined: Jan 29th, 2016 Topics: 1 Posts: 28 View Predictions]

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Deemy wrote:

Also actors usually only get one chance to win an Oscar per year meanwhile Directors often times get nominated for Screenplay as well as Picture. I mean The Daniels just won 3 Oscars in one night while some actors will never win one in their life. They should keep it as is.

Good point. It also occurs to me that if you split the 4 categories by Fictional/Non-Fictional than it might mean the same actor could be nominated 4 times for 4 separate performances. Sounds a bit chaotic 😅

Interestingly I’ve just watched the recent video with Joyce Eng and Chris Rosen where they discuss this very topic.

Joyce’s opinion seems to be that if they do go genderless then they should just stick to 2 categories with 5 nominees each rather than trying to bend over backwards to keep 4 categories.

Chris actually mentioned splitting via fictional/non-fictional but seemed unsure of it after this years Oscars where 4 actors won for original characters.

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[eddienow Joined: Jan 31st, 2023 Topics: 0 Posts: 44 View Predictions]

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Leading and supporting roles don’t serve the same functions within the story. If anything the Independent Spirit Awards should try out all these revolutionized new categories and see if the opportunities open up for nonbinaries where boxoffice concerns don’t guide the casting.

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[Pablo J Garcia Joined: Jan 11th, 2016 Topics: 0 Posts: 172 View Predictions]

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If i dont recall wrong Frances McDormant got two oscars the year of her third win on acting.
Orson Wells was nominated for acting, directing, screenplay for Citizen Kane and Charles Chaplin too (he was given a special oscar and removed from nominations later on)

I think its time that we get rid of male/female division. It is like considering that the effort for a work depends if you are a woman or a man… that is ridiculous

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[DCurrie Joined: Sep 18th, 2011 Topics: 11 Posts: 822 View Predictions]

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That would completely lessen the Oscar’s meaning even more than some or the other things they’ve done over the years.

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[Voyage Joined: Nov 6th, 2016 Topics: 4 Posts: 507 View Predictions]

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They should just put non binary actors in the Best Actor/Best Supporting Actor categories and keep Best Actress/Best Supporting Actress categories to women only.

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[K Olivia Joined: Nov 28th, 2021 Topics: 0 Posts: 576 View Predictions]

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Lil Tony wrote:

No need for this. The woke thing shouldn’t get to this level. The VMAs taking out their gendered categories kind of killed them

The Grammys have been doing gender neutral categories for years. It’s possible. The Oscars would need to find a system that ensures diversity among their nominees. Maybe a panel like BAFTA? Idk.

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