How Far is Hollywood From Achieving Equality?

A handful of female nominees does not signal an end to Hollywood’s history of exclusion. Dr. Stacy Smith, the founder of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, explains Frances McDormand's mention of inclusion riders and what they could mean for inclusion in film.

I designed and animated this video before the 2018 Oscars, and we redid the beginning afterwards to reflect Frances McDormand’s speech referencing ‘inclusion riders.’ This was done in AfterEffects. I regularly refer back to this video for the statistics at the end of what an accurate portrayal of real-world diversity would look like.