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Time for Diversity

Inclusion and Equity, Time for Change in Hollywood

The Time Is Now

Academy President on Diversity Push: "We Will Keep the Pedal to the Metal"

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences spotlighted the diversity of invitations to join the voting Academy in 2016.

"Back in 2012, 30 percent of that year’s invitees were women and 10 percent were non-white. In 2016, 46 percent are women and 41 percent are people of color."

• 2019 - https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696471501/hollywood-diversity-report-finds-progress-but-much-left-to-gain

• 2018 - https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-academy-new-members-list-2018-06252018-story.html

• 2017 - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/motion-picture-academy-invites-largest-class-ever-diversity-push-n777826

• 2016 - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/24/arts/hollywood-diversity-inclusion.html

What It's Really Like to Work in Hollywood

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/24/arts/hollywood-diversity-inclusion.html

Eric Deggans / NPR - http://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467621632/researchers-examine-hollywoods-lack-of-diversity

• http://www.eonline.com/news/743110/7-oscar-winning-black-actors-get-honest-about-inequality-and-race-in-hollywood

• http://graphics.latimes.com/oscars-2016-voters/

In 2012, The Times reported that Oscar voters were 94% white and 77% male. Four years later, the academy has made scant progress: Oscar voters are 91% white and 76% male, according to a new Times study.

Blacks are about 3% of the Academy, up from 2%; Asians and Latinos are each just over 2%...

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2018 / Making progress... in Academy membership

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/academy-new-members-2018-record-1202856702

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Working diversity ...

Directors Guild (DGA) Diversity

https://www.dga.org/The-Guild/Diversity.aspx

Women in the Directors Guild (DGA)

https://www.dga.org/The-Guild/Committees/Diversity/Women.aspx

2019 - https://www.indiewire.com/2019/01/directors-guild-of-america-no-women-directors-backlash-1202033685/#!

Since 1929 — the year of the very first Academy Award ceremony — only one woman, Kathryn Bigelow has ever won the Academy Award for Best Director.

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Writers Guild (WGAw) Diversity

Women Screenwriters@WoWGAW - https://twitter.com/WoWGAW

DIVERSITY RULES! Women of the Writers Guild of America West. #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #WomenTVWriters #WomenScreenwriters #WomenInNewMedia

http://hollywomen.com/wga-writers-school/

Diversity Reports

https://www.wga.org/news-events/news/press/2016/wgaw-releases-hollywood-writers-report

https://www.wga.org/news-events/news/press/2015/state-of-diversity-writing-for-television-tvwap-honorees

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Progress -- No Progress

Hollywood has made 'no progress' in on-screen diversity, report finds

New report from USC found just 31.8% of characters with dialogue were women in 2017, roughly the same ratio as the last 11 years

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/31/hollywood-diversity-report-usc-no-progress-2017

Rhetoric -- and Reality

https://news.usc.edu/147111/diversity-in-hollywood-remains-unchanged-stacy-smith/

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/07/usc-annenberg-study-hollywood-inclusion-riders

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Pinspot

• https://spark.ucla.edu/project/169

• https://variety.com/2018/film/news/hollywood-diversity-2-1202898210/

• http://journal.businesstoday.org/bt-online/2018/the-rise-of-racial-diversity-in-hollywood-here-to-stay-or-fad

• https://qz.com/quartzy/1515457/hollywoods-filmmakers-are-still-almost-all-male-says-a-diversity-report/

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