The state of diversity in Hollywood may look no better next year than it does now, a newspaper reported today.
Looking at the 184 movies officially announced for release this year by 14 studios, the Academy Awards next year may be just as pale and male as this Sunday’s telecast, USA Today reported.
“Our analysis doesn’t assess the Oscar viability of 2016’s forthcoming movies. But it shows a discernible lack of minority and female faces in major roles and among the directors of the films being released between January and December 2016,” according to the newspaper. “In fact, there’s a striking number of movies in which there are only white faces.”
In USA Today’s report card for the coming year in the film industry, almost every studio deserves reprimand, USA Today reported.
“Hollywood has been whitewashed, in front of the cameras and behind, from casting to writing to producers to actors,” Jeetendr Sehdev, a USC professor who has researched the challenges in improving diversity in the film industry, told the newspaper.
