“People of color and women made tremendous strides among film leads since the last report, cementing 2020 as a watershed moment for diversity,” the study says. “For the first time, both groups nearly reached proportionate representation among film leads.” And while 2020 was certainly Hollywood’s most atypical year in terms of how films were released, the report concluded that it “was the industry’s most successful year on the diversity front.
Latinx performers were cast in 5.7% of all film roles last year, up from 4.6% the year before. They make up nearly 18% of the population, however, and remain the most underrepresented group in Hollywood, despite the fact that as moviegoers, they were “significantly overrepresented” in 2020, accounting for 29% of the tickets sold.
Film leads by race reflect similar numbers: White ; Black ; Latinx ; Asian ; multiracial ; Native and MENA . All but Whites showed gains last year compared to 2019. The report found that more than three quarters of the films with minority writers in 2020 also had minority directors .Women’s share of the writing credited on the top films increased to 26% last yea, up from 17.4% in 2019, and nearly doubling from 14.1% in 2011. “Still, women would have to nearly double their 2020 share in order to reach parity with men in this employment arena,” the report says.
Released just in time for the Oscars, the report says that “If the 2021 Oscar nominations are a sign of things to come, then women and people of color stand to make considerable progress among the talent awarded for their artistic merit.
“The global pandemic that reshaped our lives in 2020 also upended business as usual in the Hollywood entertainment industry,” the report says in its view of the current Hollywood landscape. “As the spread of the Covid-19 virus provoked prohibitions against large gatherings and confined people to their homes, theaters in the United States and around the globe were forced to close their doors for extended stretches throughout the year.
“For the much larger collection of top films released via streaming platforms, ratings and social media interactions were highest for titles with casts that were from 21% to 30% minority,” the report says. “Meanwhile, people of color accounted for the majority of opening weekend domestic ticket sales for six of the top 10 films released in theaters in 2020 , as well as half of the tickets for a seventh top 10 film.
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