Women and Hollywood: The Hollywood Reporter posted its annual actress roundtable, and not surprisingly -- but certainly disappointingly -- all of the eight performers on the cover were white. Steven Galloway, the article's writer and editor of the magazine, wrote a side note explaining why there's zero diversity onscreen this awards season, at least in the best actress category. To put it bluntly, if we thought that last year was #OscarsSoWhite, this year will be even worse.
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The main problem with the Hollywood Reporter's all-white cover is that this publication is still very influential in generating Oscar buzz and publicity, as the other article on the subject this week elaborated on further. Galloway's claim that there were no non-white actresses in contention for an Oscar is hard to swallow when you think about how much more we could be doing to help get more women of color in leading roles onscreen. The other article on this subject stated that it is incredibly hard for lesser-known actors and actresses to generate a lot of buzz for an Oscar nomination, and more often than not these lesser-known actors are minorities. The Hollywood Reporter, as one of the leading publications for the awards season in the entertainment industry, could be doing a lot towards changing the way in which Oscar publicity is generated and how actors and actresses get labeled as "Oscar potential", but instead chooses to release statements like Galloway's absolving themselves of any responsibility, which is a damn shame.
Why can we not learn from our mistakes? That is really the only question I have when looking at this year’s actress round table. There is no reason why more movies should be made about women of color. Today’s modern audience is not looking for all white casts or all white oscar winners. So i just don’t understand why hollywood doesn’t reflect that. I think that all of the actresses pictured have done an amazing job in their line of work, but I think that it is time for a change. I think that it is terrible how ingrained this problem is within our society and within movie culture. Even in festivals, long heralded for going against the grain, whitewashing still occurs. We can’t as a society just keep on thinking “ maybe next year it will be different”. We actually have to make an honest effort for change.
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