While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has included new standards to enter the Best Picture category, Kirstie Alley doesn't seem to be pleased with the eligibility rules. The 69-year-old actress called out Oscar for creating such requirements and slammed for disgracing artists around the globe.
"This is a disgrace to artists everywhere...can you imagine telling Picasso what had to be in his fucking paintings. You people have lost your minds. Control artists, control individual thought," Alley quote tweeted Los Angeles Times post that revealed from 2024 the specific standards of inclusion that need to meet in order to get the best picture award nominee.
The Look Who's Talking star slammed the Academy after they revealed that their standards have been updated in order to get selected for the award. The award that honor based on technical and artistic merit for making movies has made their main category more diverse.
The Academy's 2025 Aperture has taken an initiative that will allow movies to be eligible for winning 2024's Best Picture Oscar Award only if they meet four standards. The standards consist of audience development, industry access and opportunities, creative leadership and project team, and on-screen representation, themes, and narratives.
The latest requirements of the inclusion will come under effect from 2024 at the 96th Academy award event and the organizers disclosed that these rules are created in order to encourage on-screen and off-screen "equitable representation". This will help to reflect diversity in a better way for movie lovers.
The official Instagram account of the Academy posted a picture with details of the requirement and called it "catalyst for lasting change". The post had four images with detailed information for each year starting from the 93rd Oscars that will be held in 2021.
The inclusion and representation standards clearly mentioned that there won't be any changes made in 2021 but since 2022 things will begin to affect slowly. In 2022 to get nominated in 94th Oscars, the creators have to submit confidential inclusion standards form to get considered as Best Picture and the same goes for 2023.
This change took place following the allegations on the Oscar award being "White" in 2016. There was a hashtag trended on social media, #OscarsSoWhite that made the Academy bring in the change for diversification.
The next year's Academy Award will be held in Hollywood at Dolby Theatre on April 25. While many people appreciated and supported the new rule, it seemed to upset a few celebrities such as Alley.