THB #185: Why Emmys Repeat... Emmys Repeat... Repeat...

they all look the same to me

The toughest thing in Hollywood is to get through the door.

I wrote years ago about the main reason why new directors - including more women and people of color - were having a hard time getting studio movies. The answer, historically and based on facts, was that the studio side of industry only hired a handful of first-time directors each year, meaning that fewer than 10% of studio films were being directed by first-timers of any gender or race. (Of course, these were mostly white men for most of modern film history.)

In order to be more inclusive, the industry either needs to hire a higher percentage of “new” directors or to make more movies. (When you see a director of color or woman (or both) making multiple movies for studios… it’s because they have already made a movie for a studio. The discussion of what happens once they are in the door is a different one than getting in.