Beyond winning Academy Awards, it is meaningful that black women are increasingly at the helm of telling stories featuring women of color.
Ruth E. Carter accepts the award for best costume design for"Black Panther" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. By Treva Lindsey March 21 at 10:59 AM In many ways, it has already been a historic year for black women in Hollywood.
The number of awards for black women behind the camera in television is not much better. In its 77-year history, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has nominated fewer than 75 black women for Emmys in non-acting categories. Last year, Ava DuVernay became the first woman of color to direct a live-action film with a budget over $100 million with her vibrant, black-girl-centered “A Wrinkle in Time.” Shonda Rhimes continues to be one of most powerful forces in Hollywood and inked a nine-figure deal with Netflix to develop new content. Janet Mock became the first black, transgender woman to write and direct an episode of television, Pose’s “Love Is the Message.
Nearly three decades after “Daughters,” many of the barriers Dash faced remain intact, making the recent accomplishments of black women behind the camera even more astonishing. The stories they have elected to tell explore the fullness of black womanhood. Although Rhimes and DuVernay are two of the most well-known black women behind the camera, there is a growing community of black women producing, directing, writing, designing, scoring and casting.
A new generation of artists is also in the mix. Marsai Martin, who plays Diane on ABC’s “Black-ish,” became the youngest person in Hollywood to ever produce a movie at the age of 13. “Little,” a film in which she co-stars, debuts in April. Martin, who is now 14 years-old, signed a first-look deal at Universal — establishing her as a history maker twice over.
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