Commentary
Richard Dreyfuss criticized the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new Oscar rules in, as they say, no uncertain terms.
The answer to my title question, however, is almost certainly “no bloody way”—even though Dreyfuss is an Oscar winner himself and starred in several of the most financially successful films of all time.
The management of the Academy—and a good part of its membership, alas—is far too “woke” to begin to face reality or themselves.
Ditto, the Writers Guild of America, which is currently on strike.
As a member of both, I receive their emails, most of which, inadvertently, read like The Babylon Bee….