Academy-award winning filmmaker Sir Sam Mendes is totally open to the possibility of having gender-neutral awards at the Oscars. 🗣 ‘I have total sympathy with it and I think it might well be inevitable in the end.'
Sir Sam said: ‘I have total sympathy with it and I think it might well be inevitable in the end. Because I think that’s the way it’s moving and I think it’s perfectly reasonable.’: ‘For me, people forget with awards, I think this happens all the time that they use it as a bellwether for the industry, but the truth is awards are a TV show.
‘I don’t think the categories are inclusive enough at the moment. It’s about everyone being able to feel acknowledged and represented,’ they said.Oscar-winning director Sir Sam believes genderless categories are ‘inevitable’ , they argued more representation was needed in the entertainment industry to encourage ‘urgency’ around addressing the subject.
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