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Report Reveals Diversity in Hollywood Stuck in Neutral
Of the 2015 movies the study looked at, only 8 had female directors, all of whom were white; only 4 films had Black directors.
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“We’re seeing entrenched inequality”, Stacy L. Smith, a USC professor and the study’s lead author, told the Associated Press.
“Despite all the chatter and all the activism and all the press attention, it’s another year where the status quo has been maintained”.
Of the 4,370 characters, there were 19 gay men, seven lesbians, five bisexuals (three were men, and two were woman), and there was one transgender character, according to the report. Of the top 100 films in 2015, none of them had a LGBTQ main character, and only 18 of the films contained LGBTQ characters at all. And despite an increase in the percentage of female leads since 2014, the percentage of female speaking characters hasn’t meaningfully changed in the past eight years.
While race/ethnicity has been a major focus of advocacy in the wake of #OscarsSoWhite, only 26.3 percent of all characters were from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. Leaving white actors and actresses to make up 73.7% of characters on screen. Black characters made up 12.2% of the demographic, whilst Latinos clocked in at 5.3% latino and Asians at 3.9%.
Female representation is still bad, with only 31.4% of all speaking roles going to women in 2015’s top 100 movies (up a tiny percentage from 2007’s 29.9%).
A new report released this morning by The Media, Diversity, & Social Change (MDSC) Initiative at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism shows it’s stuck in neutral.
In addition to racial representation, Hollywood also has a heteronormativity problem. Following the backlash, the Academy announced that it would implement new rules to double the number of women and people of color among its membership.
Emma Watson has been a big advocate for change in diversity in Hollywood and has pushed for more female directors.
This calculated into a gender ratio of 2.2 male characters to every one female character. The study also revealed that 13 to 20-year-old female characters are just as likely to be shown in sexy attire and with some nudity as 21- to- 39-year-old female characters.
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In 2015, inequality in Hollywood became a discussion piece after director Ava DuVernay missed an opportunity to become the first black woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Oscars. None of the males or females in leading roles was Asian, echoing the concerns expressed by prominent Asian and Asian-American actors and others in that community.