Yorick van Wageningen cancels Academy membership because of Golden Calf | entertainment

entertainment">Van Wageningen, known for hits like war winter on Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, believes that the Academy has decided without thinking twice to award only one prize for the best acting performance in a Dutch film. There will no longer be a separate award for best actor and actress.

entertainment">“I do not understand that a decision as extensive as this has not been submitted to the members,” Van Wageningen writes in a letter. “Even though making the actor awards gender neutral might not be a bad thing; the chosen time to do this could hardly be worse. The entire cultural sector has been murdered in the past year and a half. Tens of thousands of makers are up to their lips. Talent has been destroyed. And at this very moment you are making a decision without consultation of members on the basis of extraordinarily loaded identity politics that you can count on your fingers that it will dominate the discussion in the coming period.”

Men in dress

entertainment">The Dutch Hollywood star is not the only one to criticize the decision. “Who is helped by this?”, asks actress Katja Herbers. “At least not the woman (who still has fewer roles at her disposal than the man) nor the Dutch film, which generates less attention for two films.”

entertainment">bagdirector Dick Maas also sees advantages. “Men can now finally wear a dress to the Gala instead of the obligatory tuxedo!” he writes on Twitter.

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