Movies are hardly more inclusive than they were in 2007, a new USC Annenberg study shows. 'It’s so predictable, it’s almost tragic,' said author Stacy L. Smith.
Alongside conservative attacks on ‘woke’ entertainment, equity advocates call the departure of four key Hollywood diversity executives ‘frightening.’The team at AII, which has written versions of the same report for years, isn’t shocked by these numbers, Smith said.
“It’s so predictable, it’s almost tragic,” Smith said. But change is possible, and it’s not complicated, she added.“Let me tell you how simple it would be,” she added. “You would add five female speaking characters to each of the top 100 grossing films, set a new norm, repeat the process based on the new norm for four years — and you’d be at equality for the first time ever in the history of cinematic content.
Smith calls this concept “Just Add Five” and has recommended in previous reports that companies implement it.Fewer than one in 10 directors in 2022 were women — an increase since 2007 but no substantial change from 2008. Of all racial minority groups, only Asian directors made up more than 10% of total directors . Scarcely any directors at all represented multiple marginalized groups.
Yet when movies had female, Black or Asian directors attached to them, the report shows, characters of those identities were far more often cast in leading or co-leading roles. There has been notable progress for only one community onscreen since 2007: The percentage of Asian characters increased from 3.4% in 2007 to 15.9% in 2022. Although the percentage of white characters decreased over the same 16-year time frame, there were no other differences observed for characters from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups.
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