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Path to reform for Oscars starts with studios, academy

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2015 file photo, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs arrives at the 52nd Annual ICG Publicists Awards, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Since becoming the academy’s first African-American president, Boone Isaacs has prioritized diversifying the academy by inducting a higher rate of minorities in recent years and unveiling a five-year initiative to promote diversity in the industry. But Boone Isaacs is now promising even bigger changes: “We need to do more, and better and more quickly,” she said in a statement on Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Change at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, where membership is for life, does not come easily. As Spike Lee said on Tuesday, its 6,000-plus membership can't be changed "hocus pocus, presto chango" overnight.




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