To the Editor:
The sole standard for an Academy Award nomination should always be the quality of the artistic performance or film. The color of the performers’ or producers’ skin should not enter into their selection, and it would detract from that standard were the Academy to consider diversity as a factor.
In the past black actors, directors, producers and craftsmen have been deservedly nominated for and won Oscars, not, as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, “judged by the color of their skin,” but for their artistic achievements. No one protested those results. To protest now because the Academy members, the vast majority of whom are white, nominated only white people for acting awards is offensive to the integrity of those members.
PAUL FROHMAN
Bronx
Note from KBJ: I have a better idea. Get rid of these self-congratulatory events, the theme of which is, "Aren't we great?"
