Bill Maher thinks it might be time for the #OscarsSoWhite crowd to spike the football.
During Friday night’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the HBO host used his closing “New Rule” segment to argue that the diversity watchdog movement that once called out the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for overwhelmingly white nominees has already achieved its goal.
In other words? Take the victory lap.
“Take the win. The Oscars are no longer a long, boring show full of white people,” Maher said. “It’s a long, boring show full of all people.”
The comedian pointed to a string of recent best picture winners — including Everything Everywhere All at Once, Green Book, Parasite, CODA, The Shape of Water and Moonlight — as evidence that the awards show has already shifted in a more inclusive direction. He also name-checked Nomadland, joking that it “might be about Somalia,
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