The Academy Awards aren’t the one prestigious awards ceremony with an all-male greatest director race. The César awards, France’s equal to the Oscars, introduced nominees on Wednesday, and nil girls are up for Finest Director. As is the case with the Oscars, only one title helmed by a lady is within the working for Finest Image, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi’s “Without end Younger,” a portrait of a younger actress within the ’80s. (Sarah Polley’s “Girls Speaking” is up for Finest Image on the Oscars.)
Deadline experiences that “motion 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 whole absence of ladies within the Finest Director class and their lack of illustration within the Finest Movie class,” the physique wrote in a press release. It emphasised, “We’d have dreamed of distinguishing ourselves from the Oscars, an establishment which additionally exhibits an incomprehensible forgetfulness in terms of the administrators who marked the previous 12 months with their works.”
Buzzy French titles helmed by girls this 12 months embrace “Alice Winocour’s ‘Paris Recollections,’ Rebecca Zlotowski’s ‘Different Individuals’s Youngsters,’ Léa Mysius’ ‘The 5 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 shortage of range amongst nominees. “We’re involved concerning the very low illustration of the variety and wealth of our present society on this identical choice, and the shortage of media commotion that this appears to trigger,” 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.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
