How do they really decide an Oscar?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This year's Oscar nominations have reignited the row about representation in Hollywood. 19 of the 20 acting nominees this year are white - the highest number since the #OscarsSoWhite outcries of 2015 and 2016. No women have been nominated for best director. That means that over the past 10 years, 49 out of the 50 best director nominees have been men. That's despite huge support for Greta Gerwig for her adaptation of Little Women. Are the Academy Awards changing fast enough? In this episode we speak to Anna Smith, film critic and host of the Girls On Film podcast who tells us why the nominations process is flawed. We also hear from BBC entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson, who has been covering the Oscars for 20 years, to explore why progress seems so slow. Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Duncan Barber and Harriet Noble Mixed by Emma Crowe Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.0	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.6	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.8	a space to ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, how do they really decide an Oscar?
0:23.0	Did you hear what the actor and
0:26.0	did you hear what the actor and director Isa Ray said when she was announcing this year's
0:37.1	Oscar nominations for Best Director?
0:39.1	Congratulations to those men. Congratulations to those men.
0:45.0	Now the men were Sam Mendez.
0:48.0	In your own time, gentlemen.
0:50.0	Must be something big bigger for channels here.
0:53.0	Martin Scorsese, Frank, I want you to meet my cousin Russell Buffalo, you know.
0:58.0	Better watch, there's a lot of tough guys around here, did he tell you?
1:01.0	Quentin Tarantino, Bong June Ho, Todd Phillips.
1:04.4	One small thing.
1:06.1	Yeah.
1:06.9	When you bring me out, can he introduce me as Joker?
1:10.1	This is Meg, Amy, Beth, and Joe.
1:16.0	Greta Gerwig wasn't nominated.
1:18.0	I'm working on a novel.
1:20.0	It is a story of my life and my sisters.
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