Ethical Concerns Hit Oscar Races
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Next week, about 6,000 Oscar voters will start casting ballots for their favorite films of 2013 and those who made them.
Will they make moral judgments as well as artistic ones with their votes?
That question and others erupted this weekend as a controversy emerged involving people and movies in the annual film awards race.
In a separate blowup, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, on Saturday issued an emphatic defense of its decision to rescind a nomination for the song “Alone Yet Not Alone,” from a small, religious movie of the same title.
The Academy had been accused in a letter from an earlier Oscar winner, Gerald Molen, of opening itself to charges of bigotry against Christians, but insisted that the nomination was revoked only because the song’s co-writer, Bruce Broughton, had abused his position as a committee member by emailing voters with a notice about his song.
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