It was an historic night at the Governors Awards Sunday, and not just because Lina Wertmuller wants Oscar to go through a gender change. 91year old Wertmuller was honored in part as a groundbreake…
It was an historic night at the Governors Awards Sunday, and not just because Lina Wertmuller wants Oscar to go through a gender change.
It was an eclectic but highly deserving group of honorees that clearly represented the ever-evolving and very fast pace of the Academy’s new face, one that emphasizes diversity and fighting for equality in membership with the still dominant numbers of white males. As new AMPAS President David Rubin said in his remarks, “that is changing”.
The sad statistics reflecting gender parity emphasized in the Geena Davis portion of the show came home to roost in the final award of the evening to director Lina Wertmuller who , in her own charming Italian way suggested changing Oscar’s identity to a more feminine name, and told the Academy to call it “Anna”.There was a real dose of star power when the legendary Sophia Loren came on to introduce the tribute to Wertmuller, the woman she first worked with four decades earlier.
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