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The Oscar field has been officially set for the pandemic-delayed April 25 Academy Awards.
But in an awards season turned upside down with movie delays, theater closures and even a lack of awareness about films in contention, many strong performances and major stars were left off the final Oscar ballot.
On several key nominations, the Academy voters ignored precursor shows and went their own way, overlooking roles ranging from Jodie Foster in The Mauritanian to 8-year-old Alan Kim in Minari and filmmakers such as Regina King and Spike Lee.
Hollywood worships at the altar of youth and beauty.
Geena Davis won an Oscar for âAccidental Touristâ at age 33. She has been very blunt since then about how Hollywood treats actresses as they age. She founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004.
The institute has published a report called âFrail, Frumpy and Forgotten: A report on the movie roles of women of age.â
Among the findings: Female characters make up 25.3% of characters over 50.
Can you guess which gender in a film about people over 50 is more likely to be portrayed as âsenile, homebound, feeble or frumpy?â Yes, itâs the ladies by a margin of about 6 to 1.