Who Picks the Oscars? White Men.

newwavefeminism:

I mean, i’m sure no one is surprised by this - but these are the things we should be looking at and critiquing more harshly and actively. When organizations like the oscar selection group has a disproportionate amount of privilege on their board - these are the tastemakers that dictates the popular culture of society. Popular culture is never going to adjust unless we start analyzing institutions like these…

From Colorlines:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group that votes for the Oscars, is nearly 94 percent white and 77 percent male, according to a Los Angeles Times study published Sunday. Blacks are about 2 percent of the academy, and Latinos are less than 2 percent.

And all of this year’s five nominated directors are white men, and none of the 21 producers of the nine best picture nominees is a person of color.

The Times spent several months investigating who was part of the closely guarded and secret roster list of academy voters. Times reporters confirmed the identities of more than 5,100 Oscar voters — more than 89 percent of all active voting members — and found that they are mostly white, male and have a median age of 62.