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Coen Brothers: Oscars Not Important
The Coen brothers, directors known for films such as No Country for Old Men and The Big Lebowski have been criticised for their new film over the lack of racial diversity portrayed within the film.
The older brother of the directing duo responded to these criticisms by saying, “Diversity’s important” and that, “The Oscars are not that important.” The directing duo also argued that the awards ceremony doesn’t “matter much from an economic point of view.”
Their latest film, “Hail, Caesar!” is set in the 1950s and follows Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) who is a Hollywood “fixer” on the production of a film (named after the title of the actual film) who has to collect and deliver $100,000 when the star of the movie, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) gets kidnapped.
The Coen brothers went on to say, “it’s important to tell the story you’re telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity – or it might not.”
