Posted on 08/07/2021 9:31:40 AM PDT by EdnaMode
♦ With the Gotham Awards moving to gender-neutral acting categories, the conversation shifts to when more awards shows will follow suit. IndieWire’s TV Awards Editor Libby Hill and Deputy Editor Ben Travers stopped for a Double Take to assess what might happen next — and what’s stopping it from happening sooner.
BEN TRAVERS: On Thursday, the Gotham Film and Media Institute announced its annual awards show, the Gotham Awards, would be eliminating the Best Actor and Best Actress categories in favor of gender-neutral groupings that highlight Lead and Supporting performers. In addition, it tweaked the title of its Breakthrough Actor honor to Breakthrough Performer (even though, as we’re reminded every year during the SAG Awards, “actor” is already a gender-neutral term) and added two additional TV categories: Outstanding Performance in a New Series (the Gotham’s first acting honor for television) and Breakthrough Nonfiction Series, both of which will join the pre-existing categories for Long-Form (60-minute episodes) and Short-Form (30 min) Breakthrough Series.
The Gotham Awards aren’t the first awards ceremony to incorporate inclusive categories — the TCA Awards, as you noted Libby, have been doing so since 1997 — but the most prominent entertainment honors still divide their nominees up by gender, including the SAG Awards, Emmys, and Oscars. The TV Academy, in particular, has ignored arguments favoring the change for years now. Libby, is this latest shift by the Gotham Awards sizable enough to push more awards shows in a similar direction, and what’s keeping the Emmys from following suit already?
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“And in a move intended to increase their audience size, they instead shot themselves in the foot. Therefore, they decided to demand legislation requiring all citizens to be forced to watch one hour per day of gender bending productions.”
It’s about time they got their own category, after all they are unique.
I think it's time we made 3 types of restrooms and locker rooms: 1 for men, 1 for women, and 1 for the mentally ill folks who believe they are neither of the above. That would make so much more sense than putting convicted male rapists in female prisons and allowing biological males to enter women's changing areas.
That is precisely what I meant.
They want to be different, that will allow them? to be different all together.
Which, in reality, is NOT what they want...They want, crave and hope for ATTENTION.
These people are NUTS
A simple solution: Replace the terms “actor” and “actress” with the all-encompassing “idiot.”
So Tim Curry will finally win an award for Rocky Horror?
Best actor without a penis goes to...
I don’t watch any of the fake awards. All phoney shows having nothing to do with talent.
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