If you want to win an Academy Award for Best Actress, get cast as a wife, mother, sister, daughter, girlfriend or prostitute

オスカーの主演女優賞は『ハワーズエンド』のエマ・トンプソン等「母親・妻・妹・GF」という役柄が多いのに対し，主演男優賞は『英国王のスピーチ』のコリン・ファース等「歴史的人物」が多い https://t.co/EVp4mje9Rv pic.twitter.com/PluW2nq342

— Spica (@Kelangdbn) April 27, 2021

Women can also win Oscars by playing prostitutes or mistresses (4.7%). Men, however, have not won Oscars for portraying prostitutes or… masters? What the word for the-dude-someone’s-having-an-affair-with? Women are also able to score an award by playing a housekeeper or maid. No butler category for men.

But don’t worry! All’s fair in Academy Awards. Men get their own special categories. For instance, several have one awards for “law or military” roles (10.5%) and others have won playing “career achievement” roles

So, when it comes to life–I mean, the silver screen–men should pursue high-achieving, leadership roles while women should pursue familial, domestic, sexual roles if they want to succeed. Clearly this applies to acting roles only and has no effect whatsoever on the sanctioning or gendering of social roles in the real world. Obviously not…

　演劇とか物語というのは昔からヒーローヒロインの物語であり、社会からなんらかの意味で称賛される人々の物語が主流。

　アカデミー賞が評価するのは男性なら、歴史に名を残すような社会的影響力のある人物、軍人、成り上がり、女性なら妻、娘、恋人、娼婦、メイドなんだろうね。

　そもそも、作品が、社会的影響を与えた男性とそれを支える女性、という構成のものが多く、それは、社会のーーあるいはアメリカ白人男性のーーー価値観を反映し、それを演じる人たちの演技が評価されやすいのかもしれない。

　底辺の人たちを描写する傑作もたくさんあるんだけどね・・・