Richard Dreyfuss says Oscar diversity rules ‘make me vomit’

Richard Dreyfuss told PBS’s Firing Line that inclusion standards are ‘treating people like children’. Photograph: Kristin Callahan/Shutterstock

Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss has harshly criticized the Oscars’ new diversity and inclusion standards, saying “they make me vomit.”

In an interview with PBS’s Firing Line, the co-star of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller Jaws told host Margaret Hoover that he disagreed with the new set of rules that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has imposed for films to qualify for best picture nominations.