Oscars diversity – By the Numbers
Posted Feb 18, 2015 05:19:10 PM.
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Number of the 20 acting nominees in Sunday’s Academy Awards who are non-white: 0
Percentage of 6,000-plus membership of the Academy who are non-white: 6
Number of black, Latino and Asian actors who won Oscars since the first awards in 1929: 9, 4 and 3
Percentage of non-white acting nominees in Academy’s 87-year history: 9.4
Number of female winners in the best director category: 1 (Kathryn Bigelow).
Percentage of blacks in the United States: 13.2
Percentage of Latinos in the U.S. population: 17.1
Percentage of Asians in the U.S. population: 5.3
Percentage of African-American speaking roles in the 500 top-grossing films at the U.S. box office in 2013: 10.8
Of Hispanics: 4
Asians: 5
Number of black filmmakers among the 565 directors of the top 500 films in the previous five years: 33
Number of black women filmmakers: 2
Percentage of women directing the top-100 grossing films each year from 2002 through 2012: 4.4
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Sources: Associated Press analysis of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences voting history; 2012 Los Angeles Times investigation; 2014 UCLA report on diversity in film and TV; Motion Picture Association of America; USC Annenberg’s 2013 Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative report.
