Oscars: Diversity Still Sci-Fi in Hollywood
Women won 15% of this Year’s Academy Awards. It was 23% last year.
A study commissioned by United Nations says we’ll need 300 hundred years to reach equality between men and women at this pace. The Oscars confirmed: women won 15% of this Year’s Academy Awards, down from 2022, when women’s prizes were 23%. Still, there is something to celebrate, writes Kristen Lopez and Harper Lambert in The Wrap: “Actress Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress, while costumer Ruth E. Carter marked only the second time a Black woman has won Best Costume Design, or twice in any category.”
This year’s Asian representation, particularly in the acting categories, was the highest in Academy Awards history, with the most nominations since 2004. In addition to “Everything Everywhere”’s Yeoh, Kwan, and Ke Huy Quan, Judy Chin’s make-up and hairstyling award for “The Whale” brought the total of East Asian winners to four. All four South Asian nominees – the songwriting duo behind “Naatu Naatu” and “The Elephant Whisperers” producers – won in their categories.
A worrying fact regards the African American community. Black nominees only account for 7% of the individual nominees, though they secured only one win for Ruth Carter. Angela Bassett for “Wakanda Forever” and Brian Tyree Henry for “Causeway” were the only Black acting nominees, leaving Black performers to account for less than 2% of the nominees. Compared to last year, which had 13 nominations for Black talent, this year saw only seven, marking an 85% decrease from the year prior. And then there was the complete lack of women in Best Directing, despite Sarah Polley securing the Best Adapted Screenplay Award for “Women Talking.”
“To hear Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh call out the industry for the lack of opportunities they’ve received only emphasized the continuing need for diverse nominees. – Concludes the article – What can be done to fix that? The jury’s still out, but we have a whole year to hope next year’s Oscars will show signs of improvement.”
Source: The Wrap
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Women won 15% of this Year’s Academy Awards. It was 23% last year.
A study commissioned by United Nations says we’ll need 300 hundred years to reach equality between men and women at this pace. The Oscars confirmed: women won 15% of this Year’s Academy Awards, down from 2022, when women’s prizes were 23%. Still, there is something to celebrate, writes Kristen Lopez and Harper Lambert in The Wrap: “Actress Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress, while costumer Ruth E. Carter marked only the second time a Black woman has won Best Costume Design, or twice in any category.”
This year’s Asian representation, particularly in the acting categories, was the highest in Academy Awards history, with the most nominations since 2004. In addition to “Everything Everywhere”’s Yeoh, Kwan, and Ke Huy Quan, Judy Chin’s make-up and hairstyling award for “The Whale” brought the total of East Asian winners to four. All four South Asian nominees – the songwriting duo behind “Naatu Naatu” and “The Elephant Whisperers” producers – won in their categories.
A worrying fact regards the African American community. Black nominees only account for 7% of the individual nominees, though they secured only one win for Ruth Carter. Angela Bassett for “Wakanda Forever” and Brian Tyree Henry for “Causeway” were the only Black acting nominees, leaving Black performers to account for less than 2% of the nominees. Compared to last year, which had 13 nominations for Black talent, this year saw only seven, marking an 85% decrease from the year prior. And then there was the complete lack of women in Best Directing, despite Sarah Polley securing the Best Adapted Screenplay Award for “Women Talking.”
“To hear Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh call out the industry for the lack of opportunities they’ve received only emphasized the continuing need for diverse nominees. – Concludes the article – What can be done to fix that? The jury’s still out, but we have a whole year to hope next year’s Oscars will show signs of improvement.”
Source: The Wrap
