Actor Richard Dreyfuss Pans New Racial Diversity Quotas for Best Picture Oscar Nominees

Actor says the new diversity requirements for Best Picture nominees ‘make me want to vomit.’

AP/Chris Pizzello
Actor Richard Dreyfuss and his wife, Svetlana Erokhin, at a premiere at Los Angeles. AP/Chris Pizzello

An Oscar-winning actor whose credits include such blockbusters as “Jaws” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Richard Dreyfuss, is criticizing new rules on diversity in films from the academy that hands out the famous statuettes.

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