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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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Have The Oscars Finally Exposed Hollywood’s White Maleness To White People?

Comments (0) | #OscarsSoWhite, 2015 Oscars, Academy Awards, annenberg, Ava DuVernay, Commentaries, gender inequality, hollywood, Jessica Chastain, MDSCI, Oscars, racism, Selma, Stacy L. Smith, women in film

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Will Federman
Editor-in-Chief

Thursday’s Oscar nominations forced people to confront an uncomfortable truth about the movies we watch — excessive white maleness.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Why We Need More Women Behind The Camera

Comments (1) | actresses, annenberg, Belinda Cai, Diablo Cody, directors, female, Film, Film and TV, FIlmmakers, frozen, Haifaa Al-Mansour, hollywood, indie films, Jane Goldman, Katherine Pieper, Kathryn Bigelow, LA, lena dunham, Los Angeles, Marc Choueiti, MDSC, MDSCI, Media Diversity and Social Change Initiative, movies, onscreen, producers, representation of women, Sarah Polley, sexualization of women, Sophia Coppola, study, Sundance, The Heat, The Hunger Games, university of southern california, USC, women, writers

Kamilla, 17, from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, producing a OneMinuteJr video. (Chris Schuepp/Flickr)

Belinda Cai
Staff Reporter

Of the 107 total directors credited for the top 100 movies of 2013, only two were women.

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