As of 2012, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences was, according to a Los Angeles Times study, 94% white. Many attribute the paucity of nominations for non-white actors to this lack of diversity. Others point to a film industry in which people of color have historically had less access to financing, fewer opportunities to direct and a continuous need to contend
January 23, 2016 — Michael
DataViz: Oscars Diversity Problem (Time Magazine)
Source: Eliza Berman and David Johnson, See the Entire History of the Oscars Diversity Problem in One Chart, Time magazine, January 19, 2016.
Last week’s Oscar nominations have sparked outrage for their lack of diversity with zero non-white nominees in the acting categories for the second year in a row. An analysis of the full 92-year history of the Academy Awards shows that Hollywood’s highest honors have lagged the population on issues of race and representation.
In all, as the graphic below shows, 6.7% of acting nominations of the total 1,668 since the awards began in 1929 have gone to non-white actors. Isolating for the past 25 years, only 62 actors—12.4% of the total—were non-white.
great visualisation of the situation, I started a blog about data visualisation and this article was realy inspiring, thanks !
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