Oscar quotas?

[Missy]

This seems to be big news everywhere. Honestly however, are the Oscars really that big a deal these days or have any real credibility?

I don't agree with a quota on nominations, but the committee could do with fairer representation.

The current President of the Academy is an African American woman, Cheryl Boone Isaacs. She is the first African American and third woman to have the role, and has issued a statement: “The academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership. In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond.”

They don't publish a list of members but in 2012 the Los Angeles tried to do a survey and claimed that more than 90 per cent were white, and more than 70 per cent male.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...ry.html#page=1

That is an imbalance that needs to be addressed (will be a huge overhaul) but it's been a long time since I had an interest in the Oscars anyway.