The UCLA Division of Social Sciences is home to a number of projects and initiatives that create tangible impacts for underrepresented communities in Los Angeles and further afield. The Hollywood Diversity Report is one such project; its goal of increasing diversity in the film and television industry seeks to reflect groups that constitute a growing proportion of the American population, but have historically not seen themselves represented in mass visual media.
The Hollywood Diversity Report enjoys the wholehearted support of Darnell Hunt, UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and a co-author of the HDR, and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block.
Since 2014, the UCLA Division of Social Sciences’ Hollywood Diversity Report has established itself as the definitive annual accounting of diversity statistics for the film and television industry. The UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report (HDR) provides studios and networks with useful, annually-updated information that enables them to match their products to changing American demographics.
The Golden Globe Foundation funds will provide annual support over five years for two graduate student researchers to assist with the research and composition of the Report, whose positions will be named for the Golden Globe Foundation.
www.socialsciences.ucla.edu/initiatives/hollywood-diversity-report/
