I haven't (usually) been bothered by that (or similar) question myself (unless it's asked clearly out of malice, blatant prejudice, ridicule or the like)... and no, I'm probably not considered beautiful by most :lol: and definitely am not "brown" nor a woman (though I've certainly wondered...
Well, if Oppy wins quite a few, including at least one of BP and/or BD, and Barbie doesn't win any of the bigger Oscars at all, that would probably quiet some folks about that (at least for a spell anyway), LOL.
Will have to see...
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I think he only meant the voters will be influenced to lean more that way in their voting, not that there would necessarily be some hard cutoff regardless of the voting.
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^Well, as you alluded, the Oscars haven't really been about what's actually truly the best on the screen (and the sound) in some time, so this latest thing isn't that surprising I guess and maybe inevitable.
I haven't read about those new requirements/standards, but yeah, I don't really love...
I certainly don't disagree about Scott... but the (very) early reviews (as indicated on RT) for Scorsese's film point to something "really good" at least amongst that (very) early reviews circle anyway -- had no idea that some of those critics apparently saw it as early as late-May(!) it seems...