Academy Caves To Females And Minorities By Completely Restructuring Award System The Academy has been receiving a ton of backlash recently for having poor diversity in awards given. Liberals, women, and minorities are all going after them. The place America has come to in terms of situations like these is absolutely ridiculous. People earn awards. They shouldnt be given them for their race or gender. The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up, said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition. Here is the official release statement by the Academy: Beginning later this year, each new members voting status will last 10 years, and will be renewed if that new member has been active in motion pictures during that decade. In addition, members will receive lifetime voting rights after three ten-year terms; or if they have won or been nominated for an Academy Award. We will apply these same standards retroactively to current members. In other words, if a current member has not been active in the last 10 years they can still qualify by meeting the other criteria. Those who do not qualify for active status will be moved to emeritus status. Emeritus members do not pay dues but enjoy all the privileges of membership, except voting. This will not affect voting for this years Oscars. The Academy Awards are essentially becoming participation awards. Its not longer your talent that earns you one, but rather your race and gender. Women and minorities that win in the future will be discredited. It really is unfortunate. Do you think the Academy should reverse the decision? 