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Post by Admin on Feb 6, 2020 2:43:28 GMT
Joaquin Phoenix greeted Prince William with a curtsy at the 73rd annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Sunday.
The 45-year-old actor shook the Duke of Cambridge's hand before dipping down into a curtsy and saying, "It's so lovely to meet you."
William, who attended the show with Kate Middleton, then complimented Phoenix on his performance in "Joker."
He said, "'Joker' was amazing. I put it off and put it off because people kept telling me, 'Be careful when you watch it.' When I watched it, it blew my mind. It was really good."
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Post by Admin on Feb 6, 2020 18:27:21 GMT
The purpose of the academy’s annual awards is “to recognise, honour and reward individuals for outstanding achievement in feature films released in the UK within the awards year”. In casting my votes, I aimed to observe this rubric. From what I know of my fellow academicians, they would have done likewise. Yet our president appeared to think we had done something wrong.
Introducing Bafta’s highest award, its fellowship – which this year went to Kathleen Kennedy, one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers – the Prince upbraided us thus: “In 2020, and not for the first time in the last few years, we find ourselves talking again about the need to do more about diversity in the sector and in the awards process. That simply cannot be right in this day and age.” What can he have meant?
Presumably he was referring to the dissatisfaction that has been expressed about the paucity of women and individuals from ethnic minorities among the awards nominees. Presumably he thinks that things should have been different. So what does he think went wrong?
The most obvious explanation is that he considers us voters to have been making biased judgments. Surely, he didn’t imagine that we academicians say to ourselves, “Director X’s achievement has been greater than that of any of her peers, but I won’t vote for her because she’s a woman.” Or that we adopt a similar attitude to ethnic minority actors. If he did take such a view, he would want to resign anyway, rather than preside over an institution with this kind of membership.
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