The Academy Awards aren’t the one prestigious awards ceremony with an all-male finest director race. The César awards, France’s equal to the Oscars, introduced nominees on Wednesday, and nil girls are up for Best Director. As is the case with the Oscars, only one title helmed by a girl is within the operating for Best Picture, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi’s “Forever Young,” a portrait of a younger actress within the ’80s. (Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” is up for Best Picture on the Oscars.)
Deadline stories that “action tank” Le Collectif 50/50, which is devoted to selling equality and variety within the leisure business, has launched a marketing campaign in response to the snubs, #CesarSoMale.
“Le Collectif 50/50 deplores the total absence of women in the Best Director category and their lack of representation in the Best Film category,” the physique wrote in a press release. It emphasised, “We would have dreamed of distinguishing ourselves from the Oscars, an institution which also shows an incomprehensible forgetfulness when it comes to the directors who marked the past year with their works.”
Buzzy French titles helmed by girls this 12 months embrace “Alice Winocour’s ‘Paris Memories,’ Rebecca Zlotowski’s ‘Other People’s Children,’ Léa Mysius’ ‘The Five Devils,’ and 2023 French Oscar submission ‘Saint Omer’ by Alice Diop,” per the supply.
The collective’s assertion, which additionally makes use of the hashtag #CesarSoWhite, famous the dearth of variety amongst nominees. “We are concerned about the very low representation of the diversity and wealth of our current society in this same selection, and the lack of media commotion that this seems to cause,” it defined.
Le Collectif 50/50 described this 12 months’s noms as a “step backwards.”
The César awards will happen February 24. The Oscars observe March 12.
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