Report Shows Slight Progress for Hollywood on Diversity<br />According to the report, two areas that showed substantial progress were minority leads on broadcast television shows, moving to 18.7 percent, up from 5.1 percent during the 2011-2012 season;<br />and show creators of color delivering scripted series for streaming services, which went to 15.7 percent from 6.2 percent, in large part because of the overall growth of streaming.<br />The 80-page report, conducted with funding from companies like Disney and the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation, includes data broken into chapters<br />that focus on areas like directors, lead actors, talent agency representation and television series creators.<br />Hollywood executives are likely to pounce on that lag, noting the recent success of the Disney-Marvel superhero film “Black Panther,”<br />which has become the top-grossing film in history by a black director (Ryan Coogler) and featuring a largely black cast.<br />“Over the five-year run of the report, areas where women<br />and people of color saw sustained progress were rare,” Ana-Christina Ramón, an author of the study, said in an interview.<br />LOS ANGELES — For the past five years, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles,<br />have hammered Hollywood with annual reports on its exclusion of women and minorities.<br />As with most studies, it gives a slightly outdated snapshot, examining the top 200 theatrical film releases in 2016<br />and 1,251 broadcast, cable and digital platform television shows from the 2015-2016 season.
