Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024

The hundreds of television series on U.S. broadcast, cable and streaming platforms, and the executive producers creating them, are the subject of a new list — one that scores them for the diversity and inclusion of the people working both on screen and behind the scenes.

The Inclusion...

Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023

A new study on inclusion in film shows just how much of a rarity "Barbie" is. For every woman as a speaking character in the most popular films of 2022, there were more than two men, according to report by University of Southern California's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.

The USC report...

Thursday, May. 18, 2023

The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and its founder, Stacy L. Smith, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Adobe Foundation, have debuted a new, first-of-its kind ranking system, The Inclusion List, to show the world just who is doing it best when it comes to representation in theatrically-...

Monday, May. 24, 2021

In the wake of ongoing violence, discrimination, and hate toward the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, a new report reveals how popular films perpetuate erasure and stereotyping of this group, a state of affairs that can lead to discrimination and psychological harm.

The...

Friday, Feb. 26, 2021

Netflix on Friday released a study it commissioned from top academic researchers that shows the streaming giant is outpacing much of the film industry in the inclusivity of its original films and television series.

For years, academic studies have sought to capture inequalities in...

Thursday, Sep. 10, 2020

As Hollywood searches for a response to the reckoning brought on by the death of George Floyd and the Academy Awards move to make Oscar nominees more inclusive, a new study captures how the film industry has improved in diversity and how it still lags. 

In the most popular films of 2019,...

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020

Hollywood's awards season may not show it, but the most popular films are increasingly diverse, a new study finds. 

According to new research released Tuesday  by the University of Southern California's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, more of 2019's top movies featured minority or female...

Friday, Jan. 3, 2020

Lulu Wang, Lorene Scafaria, Melina Matsoukas and Greta Gerwig led Hollywood to a record year for women in the director's chair. In 2019, women directed more of the most popular movies than any year before. 

Women directed 12 of 2019's top 100-grossing films in 2019, according to a study...

Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019

In the past dozen years, one out of some 1,200 studio films was directed by a Latina, according to the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Slated to double that tally is actress/producer/director Eva Longoria who is set to helm 24/7 for Universal and Flaming Hot for Fox...

Monday, Aug. 26, 2019

Latinos make up 18% of the U.S. population and 24% of its frequent moviegoers, yet they rarely see themselves on movie screens.

A new study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative finds that Latino representation in film lags significantly behind the U.S. population and that, over the...

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