Getting rid of separate best actor and best actress categories is not the answer to lack of diversity in the industry<\/p>\n
The Guardian style guide advises writers to use the term \u201cactor\u201d regardless of the performer\u2019s identity<\/a>: \u201cavoid actress except when in name of award, eg Oscar for best actress\u201d. As the awards season is upon us, this instruction goes to the heart of a question that has been asked behind the scenes \u2013 should we still have separate best actor and actress categories? Or are they exclusionary and outdated<\/a>? There\u2019s no Academy award for best female sound engineer.<\/p>\n Last year, Variety magazine reported<\/a> that the Academy was considering eliminating the separate awards, following the example of the Grammys in 2012 and other film and TV honours since, but that this was still in early \u201cexploration\u201d. The arguments in favour are that this would put male and female actors on an equal footing and include non-binary actors. The\u00a0case against is the danger of fewer or no women at all being nominated: the Brits\u2019 decision to combine the best solo\u00a0artist awards in 2022 was immediately followed by\u00a0an all-male shortlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Getting rid of separate best actor and best actress categories is not the answer to lack of diversity in the industry The Guardian style guide advises writers to use the term \u201cactor\u201d regardless of the performer\u2019s identity: \u201cavoid actress except when in name of award, eg Oscar for best actress\u201d. As the awards season is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}