Oscar-nominated “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofia Gascón has come under fire after old tweets have resurfaced showing Gascón making derogatory comments about Muslims, George Floyd, the COVID-19 vaccine, and Oscars diversity.
ABC’s Desperate Housewives alum Eva Longoria is claiming Hollywood isn’t liberal or progressive, adding that she believes “gender equity” is needed at all levels of the entertainment industry.
The growing backlash against DEI has Hollywood elites hitting the panic button.
The Academy Awards went big on diversity this year. The results would make a woke activist break down in tears: “Oppenheimer,” a movie about straight white men without a single minority in its cast, triumphed with seven Oscars, including awards for best picture, director Christopher Nolan, and actor Cillian Murphy.
After Breitbart News exposed the numerous loopholes in the Academy Awards’ new DEI quotas, the New York Times has published its own version of the story, which includes unnamed Hollywood insiders trashing the diversity rules as little more than window dressing — “flimsy and showy.”
Major Hollywood studios have failed to live up to their promise to hire more female and minority directors, according to a new study.
ABC’s “Ugly Betty” star America Ferrera has claimed that “opportunities don’t exist” for Latino actors in Hollywood, saying “it’s as difficult today as it was” twenty years ago.
Hollywood’s new diversity inclusion standards are “thoughtless” and “patronizing,” Richard Dreyfuss said in an interview Friday. The Jaws star further claimed the new eligibility standards “make me vomit” as he defended Laurence Olivier’s 1965 “blackface” rendition of Shakespeare’s Othello.
The BAFTA Film awards are under attack by the woke mob following Sunday’s ceremony in which every single winner was white. Among the 49 people who won Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, not a single person was an ethnic minority
Comedian Jerrod Carmichael opened the 80th Golden Globe Awards with a long, awkward monologue about diversity, telling a series of jokes about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s recent race scandals that elicited a mixture of nervous laughter and stone-cold silence.
Tom Cruise was conspicuously absent from the best actor drama category in this year’s Golden Globes nominations for his performance in the blockbuster smash “Top Gun: Maverick.” Now a new report is claiming the snub is a direct result of the star’s recent decision to protest the Globes’ lack of diversity by returning the three statuettes he won in the past.
Love Actually director Richard Curtis has slammed his own movie for its lack of diversity, saying the predominance of white actors “makes me feel uncomfortable and a bit stupid.”
Following an outcry from Hollywood’s woke diversity mob, Warner Bros. Discovery has reportedly reversed its decision to shut down an internal division devoted to fostering minority TV writing and directing talent.
The cost-cutting at Warner Bros. Discovery continued on Tuesday, with the latest casualty being a long-running TV workshop devoted to fostering diversity, according to multiple reports.
One of the BBC’s most prominent presenters has admitted that he pursues a “liberal agenda” with his prime-time late-night television show.
“Friends” creator Marta Kauffman has atoned for the sitcom’s lack of diversity by pledging $4 million to her alma mater, Brandeis University, to establish an endowed professorship in the school’s African and African American studies department.
The Golden Globes was always a fake awards show and no one was more open about this than the Globes itself. Year after year, the televised ceremony made fun of its own lack of scruples, inviting the public to laugh along with the big joke. And everyone was happy to do so, especially NBC and the corporate entertainment media, which made a fortune on advertising.
HBO Max’s “Sex and the City” series revival will tackle the issue of race as a way of redressing the lack of diversity in the original show, according to actress Nicole Ari Parker in an interview with Variety.
Cartoon Network and HBO Max are launching a new slate of programming aimed at preschoolers that will spotlight diversity, representation, and other woke issues, with shows like Little Ellen, which includes same-sex couples from producer Ellen DeGeneres, and Mush-Mush & The Mushables, about tiny guardians of the forest.
One of the biggest showbiz unions with more than 150,000 members in Hollywood and on Broadway is going woke by embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The entertainment industry likes to lecture ordinary Americans about the importance of diversity while continually failing to live up to its own woke standards. The latest evidence: a new study showing music company executives are overwhelmingly white men, with less than 5 percent of CEO, chair, and president roles occupied by black people.
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu has expressed regret for the way the 2018 comedy depicts South Asian people, saying he failed to fully humanize the Indian characters who were mostly domestic workers and security guards.
Hollywood consistently marginalizes Muslims in its movies and tends to reduce them to stereotypes when the industry does acknowledge their existence, according to a new study.
The black actress playing Tudor queen Anne Boleyn claimed that the British Royal Family failed to embrace and protect Meghan Markle.
Hollywood elites frequently smear conservatives as racists and bigots, but a new study has found that the entertainment industry continues to marginalize Asians, with Asian and Pacific Islanders accounting for less than 6 percent of speaking roles in Hollywood movies.
The Walt Disney Co. is launching a new brand of entertainment titles that will focus on minority creators, with the upcoming “1619 Project” docuseries on Hulu helping to lead the way. Disney announced Monday that the new content brand, called “The Onyx
The organization behind the annual Golden Globes Awards show is hiring a chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer to address a public relations crisis stemming from the revelation that the group has no black people in its voting membership.
Netflix’s David Fincher helmed “Mank” scored ten Academy Award nominations on Monday, more than any other movie this awards season. But fast forward three years and the movie’s best picture nomination would look doubtful under new diversity quotas that are set to take effect in 2024.
“In terms of my work and my career, race has never been an issue. I’ve been making movies for 40 years and never once could I not get a movie made because I was black.”
Comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler kicked off the 78th Golden Globes on an awkward note by mocking the organization behind the annual awards show while also criticizing its lack of diversity.
The organization behind the annual Golden Globes awards said it will add black members to its ranks following criticism that the group doesn’t have any black voters among its 87 current members.
Filmmaker Ron Howard said that his Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind would probably fail the Academy’s new diversity standards, which require that movies meet certain quotas on race and gender in order to be considered for the best picture category.
Citizen Kane, widely considered the best movie ever made, would not be eligible for best picture Oscar consideration in today’s Hollywood. Neither would Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 12 Angry Men, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, It’s a Wonderful Life, or 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Mission Impossible star Simon Pegg called for more diversity in Hollywood while lashing out at people who have criticised radical leftism in the Black Lives Matter movement, saying they should “shut the f**k up”.
“Joker” star Joaquin Phoenix used his acceptance speech at the EE British Academy Film Awards on Sunday to excoriate the annual show for the lack of racial diversity among this year’s acting nominees, sending a message, he said, to people of color that they’re “not welcome here.”
The new film ‘King Richard’ is facing allegations of “colorism,” as critics say that the lighter skin tone of Will Smith does not match the actual skin tone of his character.
As American TV studios continue to roll out racially diverse programming and explore methods for making the industry more inclusive of women, minorities, and the LGBT community, global audiences are tuning out. A story published in the April 8 issue of
CBS’s has cast Person of Interest actress Sarah Shahi as the lead in its upcoming diverse Nancy Drew reboot pilot.
A study released on Monday by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism finds that Hollywood’s problems with diversity are the result of the entire industry discriminating against women, minorities, and and the LGBT community.
White, British actor Joseph Fiennes doubled down on his defense of playing the late, black, pop-music icon Michael Jackson in a new project and advocated for “colorblind casting” at “all levels” of entertainment this week.
