Academy board will weigh new voting rules to encourage diversity

The L.A. Times reports:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will weigh new rules intended to encourage more diversity among its membership and its nominations at a board meeting Tuesday night, The Times has learned.

The academy's 51-member Board of Governors has added the diversity issue to the agenda for its regularly scheduled meeting in response to an outcry over an all-white slate of acting nominees for the second year in a row, according to a person briefed on the matter.

Among the options the board could choose are expanding the number of films in the best picture category to 10 every year, expanding the number of acting nominees in each category and changing the way it invites new members by allowing prospective members to put themselves forward, rather than waiting to be asked.

The quota awards?