Actor Richard Dreyfuss has slammed the new diversity requirements for the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, insisting that no one has the right to impose moral standards on art.
Beginning in 2024, films need to meet new diversity and inclusion standards to be eligible for the best picture category, with quotas for the number of women, LGBT people, and ethnic minorities involved in the production, both on-screen and behind the scenes.
In a May 5 interview for “Firing Line With Margaret Hoover” on PBS, Hoover asked Dreyfuss what he thought about the requirements.
“They make me vomit,” said Dreyfuss, who played Matt Hooper in the 1975 movie “Jaws” and won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in “The Goodbye Girl.” He’s appeared in several other popular films throughout his career….