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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group that votes for the Oscars, is nearly 94 percent white and 77 percent male, according to a Los Angeles Times study published Sunday. Blacks are about 2 percent of the academy, and Latinos are less than 2 percent.
In some sub-branches the racial disparities are even higher. The executives and writers groups, for example, are 98 percent white. And all of this years five nominated directors are white men, and none of the 21 producers of the nine best picture nominees is a person of color.
The Times spent several months investigating who was part of the closely guarded and secret roster list of academy voters. Times reporters confirmed the identities of more than 5,100 Oscar voters more than 89 percent of all active voting members and found that they are mostly white, male and have a median age of 62.
More from the L.A. Times:
To conduct the study, Times reporters spoke with thousands of academy members and their representatives and reviewed academy publications, resumes and biographies to confirm the identities of more than 5,100 voters more than 89% of the voting members. Those interviews revealed varying opinions about the academys race, sex and age breakdown: Some members see it simply as a mirror of hiring patterns in Hollywood, while others say it reflects the groups mission to recognize achievement rather than promote diversity. Many said the academy should be much more representative.
The Times found that some of the academys 15 branches are almost exclusively white and male. Caucasians currently make up 90% or more of every academy branch except actors, whose roster is 88% white. The academys executive branch is 98% white, as is its writers branch.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/02/who_picks_the_oscars_94_of_academy_voters_are_white_77_male.html
msongs
(67,401 posts)TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)One way of joining the club is to win an award...but that's slow going!
If you want to know who the "people" like, the People's Choice Awards are the way to go.
http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/awards/nominees/
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)brooklynite
(94,518 posts)Not everyone wants to work in Hollywood.
TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)Ang Lee, who upset Steven Spielberg to win best director, is not a white man.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Boy, I bet his parents are surprised about that.
Oh,I see, this is a YEAR OLD article.
FAIL.