![]() “Separating people based on their assigned sex, and/or their gender identity, is not only irrelevant when it comes to how an acting performance should be judged, it is also a form of discrimination,” Dillon said in the essay. Oscars 2023: Best Adapted Screenplay Predictions International Gay Cinema: 33 LGBTQ Movies to See from Around the World 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' Wins Venice Film Festival Golden Lion: See All the Winners 'RRR' Was Snubbed by the Indian Academy, but It's Still an Oscar Contender “Billions” star Asia Kate Dillon wrote an impassioned essay on Wednesday that called for the SAG Awards to abolish its gender-specific categories.ĭillon’s open letter, which was published by Variety, was addressed to SAG-AFRTA’s SAG Awards committee members JoBeth Williams, Daryl Anderson, Jason George, Elizabeth McLaughlin, and Woody Schultz in response to the organization informing them they had been selected to serve on the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Motion Picture Nominating Committee.ĭillon, who came out as non-binary in 2016 and has actively supported an end to award shows’ segregated acting categories, argued that the SAG Awards’ current categories are exclusionary to non-binary individuals and said acting performances should not be judged based on an individual’s gender. In response, Dillon said they would decline to judge the event’s acting categories. June 22 update: Variety reported that the SAG Awards has declined Asia Kate Dillon’s request to remove gender-specific categories. ![]()
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