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Skip to contentSkip to site index Search & Section Navigation Section Navigation SEARCH U.S. SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEKLog in Sunday, March 10, 2024 Today’s Paper SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEK Academy Awards * liveUpdates * Winners List * Red Carpet Looks * Best Picture Nominees * How to Stream the Nominees Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT THE OSCARS NOW HAVE D.E.I. RULES, BUT SOME SAY IT’S JUST A PERFORMANCE How “Oppenheimer,” a movie about the men who developed the atomic bomb, met the new standards. * Share full article * * * 495 * Read in app This will be the first Academy Awards with new rules about diversity and inclusion.Credit...Noel West for The New York Times By Jeremy W. Peters and Brooks Barnes Jeremy Peters and Brooks Barnes spoke to current and former film industry insiders about Hollywood’s grappling with representation on and off camera. Published March 8, 2024Updated March 10, 2024, 8:06 p.m. ET Follow our live updates for the 2024 Oscars. The national reckoning over racial justice after the killing of George Floyd spurred many of the country’s most distinguished institutions into action, few more so than the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. After years of criticism for overlooking female directors and actors of color, the academy announced a torrent of diversity-oriented changes. One high-profile move involved the academy’s most coveted trophy: To qualify for the best picture Oscar, films had to fulfill a new set of diversity and inclusion standards. This new rule, enforced for the first time for this Sunday’s ceremony, is complicated and expansive. A checklist of four categories and nine subcategories cover almost every aspect of the filmmaking pipeline. Diversity in hiring — actors, directors, makeup artists, publicists, interns — is considered. So is the movie’s plot. To qualify, films must show that they meet two of the four main categories of representation: onscreen (actors, plot), offscreen leadership (set designers, makeup artists), training programs and marketing. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Academy leaders light up like theater marquees when talking about the standards, calling them a success and pointing to a 2023 survey of members in which 85 percent of respondents said it was “important” for the organization to lead on representation, inclusion and equity. But critics from an array of perspectives in the film industry have described the standards as the equivalent of tinsel — flimsy and showy — doing more to gild Hollywood’s image than to help people the movie business has long overlooked. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. A correction was made on March 8, 2024 : An earlier version of this article misspelled the last name of Universal Studio’s head of domestic marketing. He is Dwight Caines, not Cane. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at nytnews@nytimes.com.Learn more Jeremy W. Peters is a Times reporter who covers debates over free expression and how they impact higher education and other vital American institutions. More about Jeremy W. Peters Brooks Barnes covers all things Hollywood. He joined The New York Times in 2007 and previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. More about Brooks Barnes A version of this article appears in print on March 9, 2024, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Oscars’ Rules For Diversity Draw Skeptics. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe Read 495 Comments * Share full article * * * 495 * Read in app Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT COMMENTS 495 The Oscars Now Have D.E.I. Rules, but Some Say It’s Just a PerformanceSkip to Comments The comments section is closed. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to letters@nytimes.com. SITE INDEX SITE INFORMATION NAVIGATION * © 2024 The New York Times Company * NYTCo * Contact Us * Accessibility * Work with us * Advertise * T Brand Studio * Your Ad Choices * Privacy Policy * Terms of Service * Terms of Sale * Site Map * Canada * International * Help * Subscriptions Our best offer. Sale won’t last: $1 a week for your first year. See details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy unlimited access to all of The Times. See subscription options