Ryan Murphy has pledged to hire more directors who aren’t straight white men.

The “Hollywood Blackout” at the 1996 Academy Awards

Julie Delpy is seemingly unaware that black women exist.

The Best Scenes of Women in the Movies This Year

The first rule of writing a Hollywood movie as a high-ranking U.S. government official is you can’t talk about writing a Hollywood movie as a high-ranking U.S. government official.

How the Ku Klux Klan Used Cinema to Become a Force in America

This Hollywood psychiatrist thinks she knows why there’s a dearth of female directors: women’s daddy issues.

Warner Brothers, Disney, and The Weinstein Co. went two years without hiring a female director.

Put The Girl in Danger!

When You'd Rather Watch the Producer Than the Reality Show

C-List Celebrities Won't Help Netanyahu in the Israeli Elections

Why Are All of Hollywood's Leading Men So Old?

Why James Bond Isn't Black

How the Market Affects What Horror Makes it to Hollywood

Norman Mailer's Hollywood: Antiquated, Perverse, and Much like Ours

How Hollywood Gave Up on the Detective Story

The Media Forgets That AIDS Is Still an Epidemic, But Hollywood Doesn't

Slavery Is Having a Hollywood Moment. What About the Rest of Black History in America?

Why Blockbusters Will Always Rule Hollywood

The Cobainification of David Foster Wallace