{"id":4006,"date":"2017-02-23T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venngage.com\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:48:21","slug":"oscar-racism-interactive-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venngage.com\/blog\/oscar-racism-interactive-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Facts That Prove That The Oscars is More Racist Than You Think [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row text-center\" style=\"background-color: #231f20;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1em; margin: 0; padding-top: 15px; color: #fbb040; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 64px; font-weight: bold;\">OSCAR WINNERS<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1em; margin: 0; font-weight: bold; font-size: 34px; color: white; font-family: Montserrat; padding-top: 15px;\">1980-2015<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6 col-sm-12\">\n<h5 style=\"color: white; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 17px; 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Just months earlier, Jim Crow laws had barred her and other black actors from attending the movie\u2019s premiere at Loew&#8217;s Grand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. While accepting her award for Best Supporting Actress, Hattie thanked the academy members and barely able to hold back her tears, added,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.\u201d [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She then walked all the way to the back of the banquet hall to a small round table that she shared with her escort, Ferdinand Yober, segregated from the rest of the white guests and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gone with the Wind<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cast. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six decades later, no one knows for sure where Hattie McDaniel\u2019s Oscar is. Though she bequeathed it to Howard University in her will, and the Oscar was indeed displayed there momentarily during the 1960s, its current whereabouts is a mystery. One popular opinion is that it was stolen by an angry mob during the 1968 civil rights unrest and tossed into the Potomac River as an act of protest. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> On March 18, 2011, an eBay auction listed an \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthpoint.com\/worthopedia\/exceedingly-authentic-academy-award-137828383\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extremely Rare and Authentic Academy Award Statue<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d with remarkable resemblance to the original Oscar plaque that Hattie had won.[<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A more sensible theory is that the Oscar was returned to Howard University\u2019s Pollock Collection during the 1970s&#8211;but no one knows for sure. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fact&nbsp;2: #OscarsSoWhite<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would be another 24 years before Sidney Poitier became the next black actor to win an Oscar for acting in 1963. It would take another 27 years after that for another black woman, Whoopi Goldberg, to win an award for her role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ghost<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So how diverse has the Oscars been for actors historically and what progress has been made in recent decades?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/de997156-06ab-4d42-b0b5-23e85d7cb1cb-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5069\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/de997156-06ab-4d42-b0b5-23e85d7cb1cb-3-1024x847.png\" alt=\"Oscar Wins by Race Chart #Dataviz\" width=\"632\" height=\"506\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find out, we looked at winners for all acting categories&#8211;Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (some earlier years had honorary or special awards for acting as well). As the chart above shows, wins for minorities were far and few between until the early 1980s, where we began to see consistent wins by actors of color.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To analyze the period between 1980 until now, we created an interactive \u201cOscar Winners\u201d data visualization that allows you to explore each winner, their roles and the aggregate percentage of the total of each race. (See data visualization at the top of the page) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the men\u2019s categories, white actors won 84% of the awards, followed by black actors at 10%. Hispanic actors and asian actors tied at 3% each. For the women\u2019s categories, white actresses won 89% of the awards, followed by black actresses at 9% and hispanic actresses at 3%. There have been no Native American winners and historically, only two Native American actors have even been nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role&#8211;Chief Dan George for his role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little Big Man<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Graham Greene for his role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dances with Wolves<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5068\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OSCAR-RACE-FINAL-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Oscar Winners by Race Chart Infographic\" width=\"730\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OSCAR-RACE-FINAL-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OSCAR-RACE-FINAL-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OSCAR-RACE-FINAL-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OSCAR-RACE-FINAL-730x730.png 730w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OSCAR-RACE-FINAL.png 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #666666; text-decoration: none; font-style: italic; font-size: 14px; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; padding-right: 5px;\">Embed this infographic with the code below<\/div>\n<pre>&lt;img src=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OSCAR-RACE-FINAL-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"[INFOGRAPHIC] Oscar Winners by Race\"\/&gt;&lt;a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/blog\/oscar-racism-interactive-infographic\"&gt;[Infographic] Oscar Winners by Race &lt;\/a&gt; by Venngage.<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not surprisingly, when compared to the racial breakdown of the US population (census 2010), the number of white actors winning Oscars showed a disproportionate overrepresentation. Black actors were underrepresented, though not nearly so much so as hispanic actors. Hispanics make up around 16% of the US population but represented only 3% of Oscar winners. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The discrepancies were even more noticeable when we look at the percentages by gender. Women of color fared a lot worse than their male counterparts. White women ruled the Oscars, winning almost nine of out 10 times since the 1980s. Again, this isn\u2019t surprising. When was the last time you saw a woman of color headlining a movie?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fact&nbsp;3: Winning Roles are Mainly Stereotypes<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Hattie McDaniel won the first black Oscar for playing a maid in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gone with the Wind<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the response from her community was divided. Her friend and fellow actor, Clarence Muse, discouraged blacks from seeing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gone with the Wind<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NAACP and Howard University also objected to the movie, which was based on a book that criticized the Civil War and opponents of slavery, while casting the KKK as saviors of the white race. McDaniel\u2019s character, Mammy, was a common stereotype perpetuated by Hollywood where \u201crespectable black women had to serve white families loyally as domestics, with little reference to their own families, and were often cast as asexual, unattractive, and plump.\u201d [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Winning the Oscar typecast McDaniel into the Mammy role&#8211;she went on to play a maid in many other movies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cMammy\u201d stereotype is just one of the many <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/racerelations.about.com\/od\/hollywood\/tp\/Common-Stereotypes-Of-Minorities-In-Film-And-Television.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">racial stereotypes in film and television.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A very brief overview of common racial stereotypes in movies with example roles:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"672\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5070 size-large\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RacialStereotypesMovies-672x1024.png\" alt=\"Racial Stereotypes Movies Infographic\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RacialStereotypesMovies-672x1024.png 672w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RacialStereotypesMovies-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RacialStereotypesMovies-730x1113.png 730w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RacialStereotypesMovies.png 1181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are racial stereotypes common in Oscar winning roles? Certainly this was true in the early years of the Oscars, as McDaniel\u2019s \u201cMammy\u201d role exemplified. But how about in recent decades&#8211;from 1980 to today? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>To dig deeper into stereotypes we analyzed each non-white Oscar winner\u2019s role since 1980 and categorized them into three types&#8211;Stereotype, No Stereotype and Famous Person. The \u201cStereotype\u201d category meant we thought the role fit into one of the common racial stereotypes. The \u201cNo Stereotype\u201d category meant the role didn\u2019t fit into a stereotype. We also added a \u201cFamous Person\u201d category, as many of these roles were depictions of real famous figures. We used the common racial stereotypes mentioned above as a framework for our analysis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/oscar-winner-role-types.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9255\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/oscar-winner-role-types.png\" alt=\"Infographics: Oscar Winner Role Types\" width=\"632\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/oscar-winner-role-types.png 1024w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/oscar-winner-role-types-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/oscar-winner-role-types-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/oscar-winner-role-types-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/oscar-winner-role-types-730x730.png 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We found out that more than half (55%) of the roles could be considered racial stereotypes. Only a quarter of the roles did not fit into a stereotype. The remaining were roles depicting real famous people. Among the stereotypical roles, we further broke them down to see which types of roles were the most common among Oscar winning roles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ed70547a-c5b7-4fec-bc66-f5b9dca985f5-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5072\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ed70547a-c5b7-4fec-bc66-f5b9dca985f5-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Oscar Winner Stereotypes Chart #Dataviz\" width=\"632\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ed70547a-c5b7-4fec-bc66-f5b9dca985f5-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ed70547a-c5b7-4fec-bc66-f5b9dca985f5-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ed70547a-c5b7-4fec-bc66-f5b9dca985f5-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ed70547a-c5b7-4fec-bc66-f5b9dca985f5-1-730x730.png 730w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ed70547a-c5b7-4fec-bc66-f5b9dca985f5-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were no clear outliers here but female stereotypes (Mammy, Sapphire\/Jezebel) were the most common.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is important to acknowledge that the categorization of role types is, to a certain extent, a subjective judgement call. The complete breakdown of stereotypical roles is in the table below: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/45971470-ca17-4052-a3f2-d96e60713028-6.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5073\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/45971470-ca17-4052-a3f2-d96e60713028-6-652x1024.png\" alt=\"Oscar Winner Role Types Full Table\" width=\"652\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/45971470-ca17-4052-a3f2-d96e60713028-6-652x1024.png 652w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/45971470-ca17-4052-a3f2-d96e60713028-6-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/45971470-ca17-4052-a3f2-d96e60713028-6-730x1147.png 730w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/45971470-ca17-4052-a3f2-d96e60713028-6.png 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fact&nbsp;4: Minority Lead Actors Have to Play&nbsp;Famous People<\/h2>\n<p>When we looked at Oscar winners in the Best Actor\/Actress in a Leading Role categories by race, we saw an even more disproportionate picture. Oscar winners for leading roles were 93% white, 6% were black and 1% asian. There were no hispanic &nbsp;or Native American winners at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/863feac1-7bd7-434d-bd7b-f4bdd4039219-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5074\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/863feac1-7bd7-434d-bd7b-f4bdd4039219-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Oscar Lead Actors by Race Chart\" width=\"632\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/863feac1-7bd7-434d-bd7b-f4bdd4039219-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/863feac1-7bd7-434d-bd7b-f4bdd4039219-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/863feac1-7bd7-434d-bd7b-f4bdd4039219-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/863feac1-7bd7-434d-bd7b-f4bdd4039219-1-730x730.png 730w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/863feac1-7bd7-434d-bd7b-f4bdd4039219-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, there are only five persons of color who have won Best Actor\/Actress in a Leading Role since 1980. Four of them are men&#8211;Forest Whitaker (as Idi Amin in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Last King of Scotland<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), Jamie Foxx (as Ray Charles in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ray<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), Denzel Washington (as Alonzo in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Training Day<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), and Ben Kingsley (as Gandhi in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gandhi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)&#8211;and only one of them is a woman, Halle Berry (as Leticia in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monster\u2019s Ball<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three of the winners played famous figures (Idi Amin, Ray Charles and Gandhi). The other two were roles of racial stereotypes. Clearly, if you want to win an Oscar in a lead role as a minority, you should play a role of a famous person. Marc Bernardin, in a piece about <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/features\/working-hollywood-youre-not-white-859697\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">racism in Hollywood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, recently quipped, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The awards-targeted films today that get a minority protagonist tend to be about the most amazing person of that race who&#8217;s ever lived.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is some truth in that&#8211;Gandhi was one of the world\u2019s most amazing leaders, and Ray Charles is a legend in the music world. Idi Amin was a notorious dictator so his role did not fit into this stereotype but one could argue that the real protagonist in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last King of Scotland<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is actually the Scottish doctor played by James McAvoy (the story was told in his point of view).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Contrast these roles featuring exceptional people of color with the overwhelming number of roles featuring average white people becoming unexpectedly extraordinary (especially in the action\/adventure genres) and the imbalance becomes more pronounced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fact&nbsp;5: Main&nbsp;Protagonists are Overwhelmingly&nbsp;White<\/h2>\n<p>Since there have been so few minority actors in leading roles, another way to look at racial prejudice is to analyze the movies where minorities have won for Best Actor\/Actress in a Supporting Role. Who was the main protagonist? What was the main story about?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ten out of 14 of the minority actors who have won Best Actor\/Actress in a Supporting Role were in roles supporting white protagonist(s) (many of which fit the bill for the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_savior_narrative_in_film\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">white savior<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d stereotype).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/e9dc810e-de0d-45d0-92f6-63c2ffbaae95-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5075\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/e9dc810e-de0d-45d0-92f6-63c2ffbaae95-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Who's the Main Protagonist? Chart\" width=\"632\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/e9dc810e-de0d-45d0-92f6-63c2ffbaae95-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/e9dc810e-de0d-45d0-92f6-63c2ffbaae95-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/e9dc810e-de0d-45d0-92f6-63c2ffbaae95-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/e9dc810e-de0d-45d0-92f6-63c2ffbaae95-1-730x730.png 730w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/e9dc810e-de0d-45d0-92f6-63c2ffbaae95-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An example of this is Denzel Washington\u2019s win for his supporting role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, wherein the main protagonist was played by Matthew Broderick, a white colonel who led a black regimen during the Civil War. Or take Cuba Gooding, Jr\u2019s supporting <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jerry Maguire<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which featured Tom Cruise as a dynamic agent who has an epiphany and changes his way of life (while Gooding\u2019s role remains much more one-dimensional). Or take Pen\u00e9lope Cruz\u2019s win for her supporting role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vicky Cristina Barcelona<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with Cruz\u2019s character acting as a catalyst in Scarlett Johansson\u2019s story of self-discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fact&nbsp;6: Hollywood Studios are Old White Boys Clubs<\/h2>\n<p>How do you account for the imbalance between the representation of white actors and actors of color in the Academy Awards, particularly in 2015 and 2016?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, in an <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-et-mn-spike-lee-oscars-boycott-20160120-story.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview on Good Morning America<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Spike Lee drew attention to a larger systemic lack of diversity within the film industry: \u201cIt goes further than the Academy Awards. It has to go back to the gatekeepers\u2026.We\u2019re not in the room. The executives, when they have these green-light meetings quarterly, where they look at the scripts and they decide what we\u2019re making and what we\u2019re not making.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This comment came after his <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/jan\/18\/spike-lee-boycott-2016-oscars-nominations-academy-awards-lack-of-diversity\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announcement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that he would not be attending the Academy Awards that year as an act of protest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A couple of studies have dug into the wider systemic factors that contribute to a lack of diverse representation not just at award shows, but in mainstream film in general. Their findings show a significant lack of diversity from the beginning of a movie\u2019s production.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunchecenter.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-Hollywood-Diversity-Report-2-25-15.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015 Hollywood Diversity Report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> done at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, the majority of film executives are, on all accounts, white. Of the 6,000 or so Academy voting members, 94% were are white and 100% were male. Film studio senior management were 92% white and 83% were male. And film studio unit heads were 96% white and 61% male. These are the people deciding which scripts to green-light, which films to fund and who to cast; this implies one dominant set of perspectives and, in turn, connotes a bias.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"vgdiv864\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; position: relative; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; max-width: 816px; padding-bottom: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"vgframe864\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px; overflow: hidden; max-width: 816px;\" src=\"https:\/\/infograph.venngage.com\/e3\/76357\/film-executive-positions?border=false\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(){var t=document.getElementById(\"vgframe864\"),e=document.getElementById(\"vgdiv864\"),n=function(){t.contentWindow.postMessage(e.offsetWidth,\"*\"),e.style.paddingBottom=e.offsetWidth*430\/816+\"px\"};window.addEventListener(\"resize\",n),window.addEventListener(\"load\",n)}()\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; color: #e0e0e0; text-align: right; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 816px;\">film executive positions<a style=\"color: #dddddd; text-decoration: none; font-style: italic; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 5px;\" href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\">Infographic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a study done by University of Southern California<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, only seven out of the 107 directors attached to the top 100 grossing films of 2013 were black (two of which were repeats, meaning there were only five unique black directors). There were no black woman directors in the top 100 grossing films in 2013. The study also found that films with white directors were responsible for casting black characters in &nbsp;only 10.8% of all speaking roles, while black directors cast black characters in 46% of all of speaking roles. This suggests that there is a correlation between the ethnic background of a director and the ethnic backgrounds of the actors cast in their films. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"vgdiv648\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; position: relative; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; max-width: 620px; padding-bottom: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"vgframe648\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px; overflow: hidden; max-width: 620px;\" src=\"https:\/\/infograph.venngage.com\/e3\/76213\/speaking-roles-by-ethnic-background?border=false\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(){var t=document.getElementById(\"vgframe648\"),e=document.getElementById(\"vgdiv648\"),n=function(){t.contentWindow.postMessage(e.offsetWidth,\"*\"),e.style.paddingBottom=e.offsetWidth*540\/620+\"px\"};window.addEventListener(\"resize\",n),window.addEventListener(\"load\",n)}()\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; color: #e0e0e0; text-align: right; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 620px;\">speaking roles by ethnic background<a style=\"color: #dddddd; text-decoration: none; font-style: italic; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 5px;\" href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\">Infographic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the majority of film executives and directors being white (and male), the UCLA report notes that while only 11% of American and Canadian populations are frequent moviegoers, 51% of movie ticket buyers in America and Canada are ethnic minorities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>That there is still such a diversity gap not just in the case of actors recognized at awards shows, but also on the production and executive side of the industry, points to a greater systemic lack of representation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How many Oscars are lost?<\/h2>\n<p>Hattie McDaniel\u2019s Oscar isn\u2019t the only one that\u2019s missing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, the failure to nominate Idris Elba for his role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beasts of No Nation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was met with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/film\/movie-news\/oscars-academy-race-row-boycott\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">collective disbelief<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The same went for Abraham Attah\u2019s role in the same movie, Karidja Tour\u00e9\u2019s role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Girlhood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Oscar Isaac\u2019s role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ex Machina<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, John Boyega\u2019s role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ryan Coogler\u2019s role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creed<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Jason Mitchell\u2019s role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Straight Outta Compton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year, greater effort has been put into more diverse representation at the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy last year, Cheryl Boone announced this week that she has invited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/natalierobehmed\/2017\/01\/24\/oscar-nominees-2017-the-full-list\/#24540e614bd1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">638 new members to the Academy<\/a>. Of the new additions, 46% were women and 41% were women of color&#8211;an improvement on the 75% male and 92% white membership prior.<\/p>\n<p>This would bring the percentage of male Academy members down to 73% and the number of white Academy members down to 89%.<\/p>\n<p>The list of nominations this year is also much more diverse compared to last year: of the 20 actors nominated for award, seven are people of color. This is largely due to the nomination of movies like <i>Hidden Figures<\/i>, <i>Fences<\/i>, <i>Moonlight<\/i> and <i>Loving<\/i>, which tell stories focusing on people of color.<\/p>\n<p>But there is still plenty of room for more diversity.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/annenberg.usc.edu\/pages\/~\/media\/MDSCI\/CARDReport%20FINAL%2022216.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Annenberg annual report<\/a> on diversity in the film industry, women still hold only 28.7% of all speaking roles in film, and people in underrepresented racial groups hold only 26.7% of speaking parts in movies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/77d0aef2-e5ae-4e91-a36d-393f96010820-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9256\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/77d0aef2-e5ae-4e91-a36d-393f96010820-1.png\" alt=\"Infographics: Diversity in Film Roles\" width=\"632\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/77d0aef2-e5ae-4e91-a36d-393f96010820-1.png 2000w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/77d0aef2-e5ae-4e91-a36d-393f96010820-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/77d0aef2-e5ae-4e91-a36d-393f96010820-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/77d0aef2-e5ae-4e91-a36d-393f96010820-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/77d0aef2-e5ae-4e91-a36d-393f96010820-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/77d0aef2-e5ae-4e91-a36d-393f96010820-1-730x730.png 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, steps are being taken. If this momentum is kept up, imagine what the Oscars could look like in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hattie McDaniel winning Best Supporting Actress. YouTube <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e7t4pTNZshA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e7t4pTNZshA<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finding the Oscar. 55 Howard Law Journal 107-171 (2011) . pp 115-116 <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finding the Oscar. 55 Howard Law Journal 107-171 (2011) . pp 113<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wikipedia. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hattie_McDaniel\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hattie_McDaniel<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tom Gregory, Oscar time for Hattie McDaniel, Huffington Post (5\/23\/2011) http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/tom-gregory\/oscar-time-for-hattie-mcd_b_60228.html<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See http:\/\/www.worthpoint.com\/worthopedia\/exceedingly-authentic-academy-award-137828383<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finding the Oscar. 55 Howard Law Journal 107-171 (2011). pp 163<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finding the Oscar. 55 Howard Law Journal 107-171 (2011). pp 119<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finding the Oscar. 55 Howard Law Journal 107-171 (2011). pp 113<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The data used in all the data visualization can be found&nbsp;at&nbsp;https:\/\/github.com\/Venngage\/02-2016-Oscars-Race<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><i>Update: The percentage of Academy voters who are white was incorrectly cited. 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