By Nicole Sperling
March 11, 2021
By ignoring the systemic racial inequities that plague the film and television business, Hollywood is leaving $10 billion annually on the table. That is one of the main findings in a new report from the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which for the first time turned its attention to the lack of Black representation in Hollywood.
My 2016 calculations show that since 1985 blacks get acting Oscar nominations in almost exact proportion to their share of the Anglosphere’s population. In contrast, Asians are under-represented in Hollywood and mestizo Latinos are virtually ignored (outside of Mexican film directors). “In the same way that collective action is needed to advance racial equity in corporate American, real and lasting change in film and TV will require concerted action and the joint commitment of stakeholders across the industry ecosystem,” said the study’s authors, Jonathan Dunn, Sheldon Lyn, Nony Onyeador and Amman
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