The Emmy Awards have been criticised after nominating Bella Ramsey for Best Actress at this year’s awards.
The star of The Last Of Us is non-binary, and has recently shared their hope for gender-neutral categories at award ceremonies.
The 19-year-old has been nominated for the award alongside alongside Sarah Snook (Succession), Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters), Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaidās Tale), Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets) andĀ Keri Russell (The Diplomat) at the 2023 Emmys, and many have shared their dislike of the choice, owing to Ramsey’s gender-fluid identity, which they revealed earlier this year.
“ābest actressā for an openly nonbinary person who wore a binder the entire filming hahahahaha sick,” one wrote on social media.
Another added: “Award shows need more inclusive categories for people with gender-expansive identities.”
ābest actressā for an openly nonbinary person who wore a binder the entire filming hahahahaha sick https://t.co/YR3sB3Rpzr
— dyke wazowski (@sillygoofyz) July 12, 2023
Award shows need more inclusive categories for people with gender-expansive identities.
— Zillastorm (@Zillastorm) July 12, 2023
In an interview after the nomination was announced, The Last Of Us creator Craig Mazin said that he had spoken with Ramsey about the situation, and that it’s “a really interesting challenge” in the film industry.
He told Variety: āOn the one hand, the conversation about gender has transformed dramatically and in a very progressive and positive way.
“On the other, we have to practically make sure that by moving away from gendered categories, we donāt short-change traditionally overlooked folksā¦ and we know that in non-gendered categories like directing and writing, women have been historically under-appreciated.ā
Earlier this year, Ramsey called for āmore spaceā for non-binary actors at awards shows. Speaking toĀ Vanity FairĀ in a new interview, Ramsey discussed their āuncomfortableā experience submitting themselves for the 2023 Emmy Awards and how more needs to be done to make non-binary actors feel welcome and represented.
āThe categories at the moment feel extremely gendered with the language around them,ā they said, going on to reveal that they ended up submitting themselves for an actress category despite not identifying with the term.
āI donāt want the limitations in terms of the language in the categories to be a reason that non-binary actors like me canāt be celebrated,ā Ramsey added.
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