The Academy’s snubbing of female talent shows that its members are not watching the films they are meant to judge, actress Carey Mulligan has claimed.

Mulligan, a former Oscar nominee, has called for the voting system to be overhauled.

The British star, who was nominated in 2009 for her part in ‘An Education’, has been critical of this year’s nominations which saw feted female directors overlooked.

She has questioned whether those with power to decide the highest honour in showbusiness have even seen the films they spurn, claiming that the quality of recent female-led productions would not allow for their exclusion by any other way but ignorance.

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Mulligan (34) said the apparent attitude that these films were not worthy of recognition should be addressed by changing the Oscars voting system.

The Academy has more than 9,000 members who vote in January, and the most recent ballots have gone against directors such as Greta Gerwig, who won acclaim for her adaptation of ‘Little Women’, starring Saoirse Ronan. ‘Hustlers’, also in receipt of high praise for the work of its writer-director Lorene Scafaria, was also snubbed by academy voters. (© Daily Telegraph, London)

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