Sam Mendes

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Oscar-Winning Director Sam Mendes Weighs In On Gender-Neutral ... (Yahoo News UK)

The Empire Of Light director was asked for his take on Emma Corrin's calls for shows like the Oscars and Baftas to remove gendered categories.

Sir Sam Mendes believes gender neutral awards are 'inevitable' (Metro)

Oscar-winning director Sir Sam Mendes believes gender neutral awards are 'inevitable', and is totally on board with the change being made.

It’s not about yourself, it’s not about the art or craft of the industry especially. Sir Sam said: ‘I have total sympathy with it and I think it might well be inevitable in the end. [Golden Globes](https://metro.co.uk/tag/golden-globes/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P16_LNK1) for his performance in The Son. [Graham Norton ‘rejected’ opportunity to join Britain’s Got Talent judging panel following David Walliams controversy](https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/08/britains-got-talent-graham-norton-turned-down-judge-role-18059083/?ico=more_text_links) [Metro.co.uk](https://metro.co.uk) entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our [Submit Stuff](https://metro.co.uk/submit-stuff/) page – we’d love to hear from you. It’s about selling films.’ [Today](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fd8m), they argued more representation was needed in the entertainment industry to encourage ‘urgency’ around addressing the subject. [Hugh Jackman has also said he’s a ‘big fan’](https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/20/hugh-jackman-big-fan-of-gender-neutral-acting-awards-amid-push-for-inclusivity-17973028/) of one day having genderless categories. [The Crown](https://metro.co.uk/tag/the-crown/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P3_LNK1) star [Emma Corrin](https://metro.co.uk/tag/emma-corrin/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P3_LNK2), who identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them, said they hoped that [award shows will opt for gender neutral categories](https://metro.co.uk/2022/11/25/emma-corrin-wants-oscars-to-have-gender-neutral-categories-17826161/) at future ceremonies. [Laura Kuenssberg](https://metro.co.uk/tag/laura-kuenssberg/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P5_LNK1): ‘For me, people forget with awards, I think this happens all the time that they use it as a bellwether for the industry, but the truth is awards are a TV show. [Sam Mendes](https://metro.co.uk/tag/sam-mendes/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P1_LNK1) is totally open to the possibility of having gender-neutral awards at the Oscars. ‘You can discuss awards and representation, but really the conversation needs to be about having more representation in the material itself.

Director Sam Mendes admits that awards will be moved to gender ... (Daily Mail)

Sam Mendes has said he believes it's 'inevitable' that awards will move to gender-neutral categories in the future.

In a sense I was parenting my own mother' (pictured in the early 2000s) There’s a fragility in certain scenes that you have to honour.' In a sense I was parenting my own mother.' The Crown star said: 'I hope for a future in which that happens. He continued: 'I'm not dismissing the importance of them but I'm saying they were there to promote films and the craft and art of films. [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/uk), he explained: 'When you’re a child, you deal with what’s in front of you.

Sam Mendes says gender-neutral Oscars are 'inevitable' (The Independent)

'I think that's the way it's moving and I think that it's perfectly reasonable,' the Oscar winner said.

“I don’t think the categories are inclusive enough at the moment,” they continued. “I have total sympathy with it, yeah, and I think it might well be inevitable in the end,” he said. It’s not about yourself, it’s not about the art or craft of the industry, especially.

Sir Sam Mendes backs calls for gender-neutral awards (Black Hills Pioneer)

The 'Empire of Light' director thinks it is "perfectly reasonable" to scrap separate male and female categories when it comes to giving out honours in order to ...

Sam Mendes says having gender-neutral awards at Oscars is ... (Telegraph.co.uk)

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker said he had 'total sympathy' with the idea.

"I'm not dismissing the importance of them but I'm saying they were there to promote films and the craft and art of films. "If you come out of hospital and you've just recovered from cancer, I'm immediately saying to you 'how are you?'. Sir Sam said: "I have total sympathy with it and I think it might well be inevitable in the end. "Awards are there to promote films. It's about selling films. "It's not about yourself, it's not about the art or craft of the industry especially.

Sam Mendes says gender neutral awards are “perfectly reasonable” (NME.com)

'Skyfall' director Sam Mendes says he believes that gender neutral awards are "inevitable" and "perfectly reasonable".

[BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-64199673), Mendes said he has “total sympathy” with calls for the change, saying: “I think it might well be inevitable in the end. I think it would be wonderful.” “I don’t envy Barbara having to follow Daniel’s [Craig] five movies,” Mendes began. The filmmaker discussed the future of the 007 franchise after producer Barbara Broccoli had said the next actor to play James Bond would be male. “It’s about everyone being able to feel acknowledged and represented,” they said. It’s not about yourself, it’s not about the art or craft of the industry, especially, it’s about selling films.”

The great era of going to the movies is dying, says Sam Mendes (The Guardian)

Director, whose new film is a love letter to cinema, says many of his past hits would have been for streaming.

“If you come out of hospital and you’ve just recovered from cancer, I’m immediately saying to you ‘how are you?’. [previously told the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/06/olivia-colman-micheal-ward-and-sam-mendes-on-mothers-mental-illness-and-the-movies) the film was a love letter to cinema: “If you are broken, movies can help put you back together again. He said he had to “dramatise” the effect of what it is to live through bipolar and manic depression, “rather than to explain it”. Yet that could easily be tilted into being: it’s about the magic of movies,” he said. He said film-makers now have to “accept and embrace the ambition of a big screen” or “accept that they’re going to be seen by millions of people on streaming, which is no bad thing”. The “great era” of going to the cinema is dying, Sir

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