Sorry to repeat, but the date says a lot the folks might not realize:
The Acadamy is made up of a pretty uniform lot, across the range of jobs done in the movie business, it isn’t just the actors and directors.
Speaking of that uniform lot, for many years the pecking order goes back to one set by Goldwyn, Mayer, and the others who left Europe, mostly Germany, wisely, and migrated to the US. That block of Jewish immigrants built the industry in fact, to their credit, but they ran it a lot like a kibbutz. Such true talents as Billy Wilder and Kirk Douglas did have a leg up with management that didn’t hurt, but they still changed their names for public image.
Sorry to repeat, but the date says a lot the folks might not realize:
The Acadamy is made up of a pretty uniform lot, across the range of jobs done in the movie business, it isn’t just the actors and directors.
Speaking of that uniform lot, for many years the pecking order goes back to one set by Goldwyn, Mayer, and the others who left Europe, mostly Germany, wisely, and migrated to the US. That block of Jewish immigrants built the industry in fact, to their credit, but they ran it a lot like a kibbutz. Such true talents as Billy Wilder and Kirk Douglas did have a leg up with management that didn’t hurt, but they still changed their names for public image.