An Oscar statue stands in front of a curtain during a press event for Foreign Language Film Award nominees leading up to the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 20, 2015 (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) It is not just the Oscars that have a diversity problem. Women, minorities and the LGBT community are vastly under-represented throughout Hollywood, according to a report published on Monday ahead of the Academy Award ceremony. The report looked at 109 films and 305 television and digital series released in 2014 and found that only 28 percent of all speaking characters are people of color – some 9 percent below the make-up of the U.S. population. “The results reveal that the prequel to #OscarsSoWhite is #HollywoodSoWhite,” said the report by the Media, Diversity & Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “This is no mere diversity problem. This [...]
