Academy Museum took heat for its handling of Hollywood’s Jewish founders. A fix is coming
LOS ANGELES — Change is hard, messy and almost always imperfectly implemented — for every two people it pleases there is at least one who’s ticked off. No organization knows this more viscerally than the film academy. After decades of elitist calcification, it has spent the better part of the past six years making changes, none of which, from its long-overdue expansion of its own membership to ...
by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
Mar 22, 2022
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Change is hard, messy and almost always imperfectly implemented — for every two people it pleases there is at least one who’s ticked off.
No organization knows this more viscerally than the film academy. After decades of elitist calcification, it has spent the better part of the past six years making changes, none of which, from its long-overdue expansion of its own membership to its recent decision to shove eight categories out of the main Oscar telecast, came without controversy.
So there was no reason to believe its brand new museum would escape criticism.
And it did not. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was not far past its 2021 opening when people
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