The Painful Reality

[lutamira]

While the results of this USC study on Oscar-nominated films are not exactly surprising, the numbers are pretty disheartening. Of films nominated for Academy Awards between 2007 and 2010:

• Only 32.6 percent of speaking characters were female
• Only 14.3 percent of directors were female
• Of the speaking characters analyzed for race, 78 percent were white
• Black actors accounted for 11.6 percent of the speaking roles


• Latino actors accounted for 1.9 percent of speaking roles

In good news, people are studying this stuff and talking about it in the academy?

ETA: They posted the full report. It is only a couple pages long, but there is lots of data for those who like that sort of thing.
gabrielleabelle I'm looking at you. ;)

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