{"id":1439,"date":"2016-01-19T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T09:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/19\/academy-president-heartbroken-over-oscarssowhite-vows-more-action\/"},"modified":"2016-01-19T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T09:23:32","slug":"academy-president-heartbroken-over-oscarssowhite-vows-more-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/19\/academy-president-heartbroken-over-oscarssowhite-vows-more-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy president 'heartbroken' over #OscarsSoWhite, vows more action"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Cheryl Boone Isaacs, speaking on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of which she is president, issued a 190-word statement on Monday addressing the overwhelmingly white batch of nominees, saying she is “heartbroken and frustrated” and vowing to redouble the organization’s efforts to diversify its membership.<\/p>\n

The letter from Boone Isaacs, a former film publicity executive elected to her post in 2013, comes on the heels of growing concern about this awards season’s voting results. For a second year in a row, the all-white nominees in the acting categories (and little diversity to speak of in others) sparked outrage online and in Hollywood, where honorary winner Spike Lee and others (including Jada Pinkett-Smith) have vowed to boycott the February ceremony. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Cheryl Boone Isaacs, speaking on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of which she is president, issued a 190-word statement on Monday addressing the overwhelmingly white batch of nominees, saying she is “heartbroken … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1008,739,858,765,1009],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-oscars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}