{"id":84634,"date":"2022-03-10T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/black-hollywood-executives-still-lack-greenlight-power-diversity-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:44:09","slug":"diversity-report-black-hollywood-executives-still-lack-greenlight-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/diversity-report-black-hollywood-executives-still-lack-greenlight-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Report: Black Hollywood Executives Still Lack Greenlight Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An NAACP-commissioned report, Dr. Darnell Hunter, finds that few people of color who are invited to Hollywood’s executive table have the ability to approve projects. <\/p>\n

Hunt started with UCLA\u2019s 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report documents, which saw film leads nearly triple for people of color and quadruple on the television side, but little growth for behind-the-camera talent. It also revealed that \u201cthere were no Black CEOs or members of the senior management team at the major studios in early 2020, and only 3.9 percent of major studio unit heads were Black.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt, who is the dean for Social Sciences and a professor in Sociology African American Studies at UCLA, spoke to representatives of Black executives. \u201chighly accomplished, behind-the-scenes personnel\u201dIn the entertainment industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack executives did not have final say on the fate of a project,\u201dThe report says. One interviewee explained: \u201cThe closer a project gets to being programmed, the higher up the ladder it needs to get approved. And the higher up the ladder you go, the less diverse the industry is overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hunt was also told by another Black executive. \u201cThere are about 12 people that get into a room, 12 to 15 people that discuss [a project]. But a greenlight decision is not arrived at yet in that room. The chairman takes all of those inputs and then the chairman makes the decision. That\u2019s really one person deciding and 15 people opining.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should really think about how we need to construct the leadership team in order to ensure that the people greenlighting the film look more representative of the people who attend the film,\u201dAnother respondent said.<\/p>\n

Although there was an upswing in diversity hires after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, Dr. Hunt writes it\u2019s too soon to tell if it\u2019s more than \u201canother strategic, virtue-signaling performance deemed necessary to survive the times,\u201d as Michelle Amor, Hilliard Guess and Bianca Sams, co-chairs of the Writers Guild of America\u2019s West\u2019s Committee of Black Writers, wrote in June 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Hollywood\u2019s studios and networks have worked to appease audience demand for more diverse, on-screen content in recent years, it appears as if they have done so without fundamentally altering the way the industry is structured\u00a0\u2013\u00a0without also diversifying who is making the decisions behind the scenes,\u201dHunt writes. <\/p>\n

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He concludes: \u201cThus, the strong recommendation is that the entertainment industry employ the intellect, creativity, and affinity of Black executives to make meaningful contributions toward both the success and influence of Hollywood, by assuming lead roles in key functions throughout the content creation and delivery process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The entire report can be viewed at NCAAP.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An NAACP-commissioned report, Dr. Darnell Hunter, finds that few people of color who are invited to Hollywood’s executive table have the ability to approve projects. Hunt started with UCLA\u2019s 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report documents, which saw film leads nearly triple for people of color and quadruple on the television side, but little growth for behind-the-camera […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":84635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1646876581_Black-Hollywood-Executives-Still-Lack-Greenlight-Power-Diversity-Report-Finds.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}