英国新闻听力 奥斯卡角逐之闹

The British actress Charlotte Rampling has described a campaign to boycott¹ this year’s Oscars because the absence of black nominees² as racist³ against white people. She’s been nominated in the best actress category for her role in the film 45 Years. Our entertainment correspondent has the details.

One of the nominees Charlotte Rampling has spoken about the controversy⁴ to French radio network Europe 1. When asked if she understood the anger of people like director Spike⁵ Lee who’s decided⁶ to boycott the ceremony, she replied, “No, I think it’s the other way around that it’s racists against white people” . And the actress who’s been nominated for the film 45 Years suggested that perhaps no black actors merited being nominated.

You can never know for sure but maybe black actors didn’t deserve to be in the final selection. Why classify people? We live in countries now where people are more or less accepted.

But the organizers of the Oscars ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, have now said they will take steps to address the issue of diversity in Hollywood. Our correspondent in Los Angles James Cook told me more.

Nominees for Academy Awards are chosen by more than 6000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And crucially, that group itself is overwhelmingly white, male and over the age of 50. So in response to that, pretty quickly this year, I mean, given that this is the second year in a row that we’ve had this row, there’ve been only white actress nominated for two years in a row, that the response this year has really been relatively⁷ quick.

And the Academy says that what it’s going to do is to try to double the number of woman and the number of what it calls “diverse”, which I think by which they mean nonwhite members of the Academy by 2020.

There will be some exceptions for the longest serving members for Oscar nominees, as well. But basically for people who have not been active in the industry for the past decade who don’t fall into those other categories, the Academy will strip them of their voting rights to try to make the membership reflect the United States and world better.

You think it will be enough to calm some of the anger, public anger?

I think it will go some way, yes, to calming the anger. People have been very very upset. We’ve seen actors and directors complaining, Spike Lee the director saying they were lily white.

今年奥斯卡遭到了抵制，原因是提名名单里没有黑人，而英国女演员夏洛特·兰普林将这种抵制描述为“对白人的种族歧视”。夏洛特因出演电影《45周年》而获得最佳女演员提名。本台娱乐记者详细报道。

入围者夏洛特·兰普林在接受法国广播网“欧洲第1电台”采访时谈到了这个争议。当被问到是否理解决定抵制今年奥斯卡的导演斯派克·李等人的气愤时，她说，“不理解，我觉得事实正好相反，他们是歧视白人”。该女演员因出演电影《45周年》而获得提名，她表明，或许今年没有黑人演员满足入围资格。

谁也说不准，可能黑人没有达到入围的条件。为什么要把人分类呢？现在各个国家对待所有人都差不多。

但奥斯卡的主办方——电影艺术与科学学院已经表示，他们将采取措施，解决好莱坞的多元化问题。本台驻洛杉矶记者詹姆斯· 库克详细报道。

学院奖提名演员由电影艺术与科学学院6千多位成员选出。但关键是，这个组织内部就是白人占大多数，大部分为男性，年龄50岁以上。为应对这个问题，今年很快……因为毕竟连着两年都有抗议，连续两年都有人指责提名演员都是白人，所以今年学院的反应相当快。

学院称，2020年前，他们将实现成员女性的数量翻一番，“多元”元素数量翻一番。我觉得他们所说的“多元”元素就指非白人成员。

当然，对服务于奥斯卡提名时间最长的成员来说会有例外。但基本上，如果过去的十年在这个行业不活跃，而且也不适合做奥斯卡其他类别的工作，就会被委员会剥夺投票权，从而使全体成员更好地反映美国和世界。

你认为这个决定足以平息一些众怒吗？

我觉得是的，在平息众怒方面还是会有一定作用的。大家非常非常气愤。我们也看到很多演员和导演抱怨过。导演斯派克·李说他们是纯白种人。

1 boycott   

n./v.(联合)抵制，拒绝参与

参考例句：

• We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
• The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。

2 nominees   

n.被提名者，被任命者( nominee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
• A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。 来自互联网

3 racist   

n.种族主义者，种族主义分子

参考例句：

• a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
• His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。

4 controversy   

n.争论，辩论，争吵

参考例句：

• That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
• We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。

5 spike   

n.长钉，钉鞋；v.以大钉钉牢，使...失效

参考例句：

• The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
• They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。