The UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report Doesn’t Prove What It Claims

How a $1.75 million study measures diversity — and why it doesn't work.

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A Great Black Hope

How a Missed Screener Deadline Sparked #OscarsSoWhite — and Accidentally Handed the Oscars to the World.

Jul 16 • Hollywood Gadfly

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The Luxury Film MFA Ends Today

For twenty years, an uncapped federal loan made the elite film MFA possible. Not anymore.

Jul 1 • Hollywood Gadfly

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June 2026

Survival of the Richest: The BIPOC Problem

Why every 2025 top-grossing female director of color was Asian.

Jun 26 • Hollywood Gadfly

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Obsession Doesn’t Prove the System Is Rigged Against Women

What the data actually shows.

Jun 21 • Hollywood Gadfly

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The Annenberg Ouroboros

How Hollywood’s favorite inclusion study creates a self-feeding outrage loop.

Jun 18 • Hollywood Gadfly

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"Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?"

Why you're probably a little bored with progressive storytelling.

Jun 11 • Hollywood Gadfly

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Obsession Has Outearned All 68 Sundance US Competition Films Since 2020 Combined

Even including streaming acquisitions.

Jun 4 • Hollywood Gadfly

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Survival of the Richest: Hollywood's Broken Talent Pipeline

Chloé Zhao and the Myth of the $100,000 Movie

Jun 1 • Hollywood Gadfly

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May 2026

Luxury Activists, Volume 1

Hannah Einbinder and Boots Riley have been hard at work.

May 30 • Hollywood Gadfly

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February 2026

The Cost of Speed

Hollywood's radical demographic experiment.

Feb 18 • Hollywood Gadfly

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January 2026

Promising Young Director

Hollywood elevated a new generation of women. The results are more complicated than anyone hoped.

Jan 29 • Hollywood Gadfly

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