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movies / musicals
ELLA ENCHANTED: prince charmont, ella of frell
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER: patrick
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: pt barnum, anne wheeler, phillip carlyle
THE ADDAMS FAMILY: morticia addams, gomez addams, debbie jillinksky
BURLESQUE: tess, sean, ali rose, jack, nikki
MAMMA MIA: sam carmichael, donna sheridan, tanya, bill anderson, harry bright, sophie sheridan, ruby sheridan
MEAN GIRLS: regina george, janis ian
REPO THE GENETIC OPERA: nathan
MOULIN ROUGE: christian, satine
BEETLEJUICE: lydia deetz, barbara maitland
DEAR EVAN HANSEN: connor murphy, evan hansen, larry murphy
BABY DRIVER: darling, buddy
BRING IT ON: missy pantone, cliff pantone
BRING IT ON AGAIN: tina
BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING: britney allen
BRING IT ON: IN IT TO WIN IT: carson
BRING IT ON: WORLDWIDE #CHEERSMACK: destiny
HEATHERS: veronica sawyer, jason dean, heather chandler
PITCH PERFECT: jesse swanson, beca mitchell, chloe beale, aubrey posen
JENNIFERS BODY: jennifer check, nikolai
THE PRINCESS BRIDE: westley, inigo montoya
THE PRINCESS DIARIES 1 & 2: nicholas devereaux, mia thermopolis, charisse renaldi, joe
RENT: mark cohen, maureen johnsen, mimi marquez, roger davis
SCOOBY DOO: daphne blake, sibella dracula, fred jones
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: sharpay evans, troy bolton, ryan evans
SKY HIGH: warren peace
SPIDERMAN: peter parker, harry osborn
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: mantis, drax, peter quill
HOCUS POCUS: thackery binx, max dennison, sarah sanderson
MALEFICENT: maleficent
TWILIGHT: jasper hale, rosalie hale, carlisle cullen, emmett cullen
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: max carrigan, jude, sadie
HARRY POTTER: draco malfoy, sirius black, hermione granger, andromeda tonks. bill weasley, charlie weasley, fleur delacour
HAIRSPRAY: link larkin, penny pingleton, amber von tussle, velma von tussle
ANOTHER CINDERELLA STORY: mary santiago, joey parker
tv shows
THE MAGICIANS: eliot waugh on his own blog, margo hanson
GLEE: santana lopez on her own blog, hunter clarington on his own blog, jesse st james on his own blog, quinn fabray, blaine anderson, kurt hummel, sam evans/evan evans, rachel berry, jean baptiste
DYNASTY: fallon carrington, sammy jo flores/carrington, kirby anders
RIVERDALE: veronica lodge, cheryl blossom
SHAMELESS: ian gallagher, mandy milkovich, veronica fisher, kevin ball, mickey milkovich, colin mikovich
TEEN WOLF: isaac lahey, jackson whittemore, lydia martin, stiles stilinski, peter hale
LOST: james ford, charlie pace, claire littleton, desmond hume, boone carlyle
YOU: joe goldberg on his own blog, love quinn, forty quinn
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES/THE ORIGINALS: caroline forbes, bonnie bennett, lorenzo st. john, niklaus mikaelson
LEGACIES: lizzie saltzman, alaric saltzman, josie saltzman, hope mikaelson, kaleb hawkins
IMPOSTERS: maddie johnson
SKINS: effy stonem, tony stonem on his own blog, mini mcguinness, chris miles
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: spencer hastings
CRIMINAL MINDS: penelope garcia, spencer reid, derek morgan
EUPHORIA: cassie howard, maddie perez, nate jacobs
THE POLITICIAN: astrid sloan, river barkley
SEX EDUCATION: eric effiong, aimee gibbs, adam broff, maeve wiley, jackson marchetti
BROOKLYN 99: jake peralta, gina linetti, amy santiago, terry jeffords
NEW GIRL: cece parekh, winston schmidt
THE OFFICE: jim halpert, pam beesley, dwight schrute, angela martin, andy bernard
COMMUNITY: annie edison, troy barnes, abed nadir
SCHITTS CREEK: david rose, alexis rose
PSYCH: shawn spencer, carlton lassiter, pierre despereaux, juliet o'hara, henry spencer
PARKS & RECREATION: april ludgate, chris traeger, donna meagle, jean ralphio saperstein, mona lisa saperstein
SCREAM: brooke maddox, noah foster
ONCE UPON A TIME: rumpelstiltskin/gold, killian jones, belle french, regina mills, robin hood, neal cassidy
DEGRASSI NEXT GENERATION: eli goldsworthy, marco del rossi, fiona coyne, manuella santos, craig manning, gavin mason, jay hogart, paige michalchuk, jane vaughn, ellie nash, mia jones
DEGRASSI NEXT CLASS: miles hollingsworth, lola pacini, jonah haak, zoe rivas
DEXTER: dexter morgan
FAKING IT: shane harvey, liam booker, lauren cooper
THE FLASH: barry allen, iris west, caitlin snow, harrison wells (earth 2)
SUPERGIRL: kara danvers, cat grant, mon-el, lena luthor
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: spike, buffy summers, rupert giles
IN THE FLESH: simon monroe
BATES MOTEL: dylan massett, gunner
STRANGER THINGS: steve harrington, jim hopper
MERLIN: arthur pendragon, morgana pendragon, gwaine
GALAVANT: galavant, king richard
THAT 70’S SHOW: jackie burkhart, steven hyde
GOSSIP GIRL: blair waldorf, chuck bass
HEMLOCK GROVE: roman godfrey
DRACULA: lucy westenra
THE FOSTERS: mariana adams-foster, jesus adams-foster, mat tan
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: count olaf, uncle monty
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: madison montgomery, tate langdon, oliver thredson, maggie esmerelda, the countess elizabeth, tristan duffy, donovan, jimmy darling
SCREAM QUEENS: chanel oberlin, chad radwell
THE NANNY: fran fine
VICTORIOUS: jade west, beck oliver
SUITE LIFE OF ZACK & CODY: cody martin, zack martin, london tipton
WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE: alex russo, mason greyback, juliet van heusen
LIV & MADDIE: liv rooney, holden dippledorf
cartoons & anime
HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE: howl jenkins pendragon
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER: iroh, zuko, mai, sokka
STEVEN UNIVERSE: pearl, greg universe, lapis lazuli, steven universe, peridot, sourcream
BEAUTY & THE BEAST: belle, adam, gaston
FROZEN: elsa, hans
TANGLED: rapunzel, flynn ryder
MOANA: maui
THE INCREDIBLES 1 & 2: violet parr, tony rydinger
KIM POSSIBLE: shego, drakken
ANASTASIA: dimitri
BARBIE: LIFE IN THE DREAM HOUSE: barbie roberts, ryan, raquelle
BARBIE: PRINCESS & THE PAUPER: anneliese, julian, dominic
DANNY PHANTOM: danny fenton, sam manson, vlad masters, paulina
TEEN TITANS: raven, terra
6TEEN: jonesy garcia, wyatt williams, nikki wong
OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB: hikaru hitachiin
FRUITS BASKET: haru sohma, kyo sohma, shigure sohma
video games
MYSTIC MESSENGER: jumin han, jihyun kim ( v ), ryu hyun ( zen )
ARCANA: julian, azra
webcomics
LORE OLYMPUS: eros, hades, persephone, hera
CASTLE SWIMMER: siren
EDITH: edith, phillip
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Exclusion within Hollywood: why are minorities overshadowed?
With next year’s Oscars approaching, its time to consider at why in the 21st Century at why minorities are still non-existent throughout award ceremonies.
Throughout the history of the Oscar’s, it has always been dominated by white actors and actresses, however, as we are now nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st Century, why are minorities still being overshadowed? It came to public attention in 2015 with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, which started to trend on Martin Luther King day, the only film within this particular Oscar year was Selma for best picture. This momentum continued in 2016, when Will Smith was overshadowed again and boycotted the Oscars in protest and the hashtag trended again on Twitter. His wife also joined in with the boycott. “This year’s list of Oscar nominees passes over popular, well-reviewed performances in the movies Creed and Straight Outta Compton’” The President of the Academy and Cheryl Boone Isaacs who represents the board behind the Oscars have said “I am both heartbroken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion” and “we have implemented changed to diversify our membership in the last four years… we need to do more. And better and more quickly”
This topic has always been a conversation focus as many films have white lead characters, people of colour has been tried to be cast within major roles but there are changes still being need to be made due to there being a fear of films not being as successful at the box office if a person of colour was cast rather than a white person, this almost passive racism is unfair as here have been major films with black leads which have been a box office hit. Within The Hollywood Jim Crow “Hollywood decision makers view movies with black casts as being economically risky… and for that reason they restrict them to small budgets.”
UCLA has published a report looking at diversity within Hollywood and the results are shocking, in 2016 only 13.9 percent of lead actors within the top films were of minority’s and only 1.4 out of 10 lead actors within the film industry are people of colour. This is quite a shocking statistic when compared with the 86.1 percent of lead actors were white in 2016. Some examples of films which were released with African Americans as the lead characters are Central Intelligence with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, Hidden Figures with Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae and Moonlight starring Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes, Alex R. Hibbert.
Hollywood is a symbol of American motion picture, but it is also seen as the worlds as well. Movies produced by Hollywood influences moral, cultural and political issues within society but an issue is some of the impacts can give narrow mindfulness as well. Many viewers think Hollywood spreads a negative message of themselves due to the racial discrimination some movies portray. The roles of minorities are slowly improving, Asians, Latinos and Native Americans are still under represented, together they make up 9.3 percent of roles shared, and Native Americans are the lowest within the underrepresentation with them making up 0.5 percent in total.
In a recent book published titled The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry, it offers a provocative lens of understanding how the industry’s racial imbalances are and the lack of people of colour in the top studio roles. This book questions the extent in which Jim Crow exists within the entertainment sector today. The Hollywood hierarchy isn’t identical to the legal segregation which existed but there is still many principles which remain the same, “that Jim Crow was a legally enforced [system] that affected everyone – their mobility, their bodies, their ability to find work”
As racism was law, cinemagoers would typically see African Americans depicted in cruel stereotypical movie roles: servants, rapists, and unintelligent slaves. It wasn’t until the 1930s when black actors were able to find work onscreen within Hollywood, however, when they did it was mostly song and dance genre. Hattie McDaniel in 1940 was awarded an Academy Award and was the first African American actor who received one for her role as Mammy in Gone With The Wind. However, she did have to sit at a separate table compared with her white co-stars because the venue didn’t allow blacks within the building.
Within early Hollywood, they would use black characters to represent different stereotypes and have limited screen time and these stereotypes persisted throughout the twentieth century when attitudes to minorities were rife throughout Hollywood and society in general. Blaxploitation is a subgenre of the exploitation film which emerged in the US in the early 1970s. The films were popular, but received backlash because of the disproportionate numbers of the stereotypical film characters which showed questionable motives which included criminals, but it is the first genre in which black characters are seen as the hero rather than the sidekick. An example of a film within this genre is Shaft where the lead character has to go and save a Harlem mobster’s daughter from Italian Mobsters who kidnapped her.
Other examples of stereotypes are; Asians are usually portrayed as nerdy and Latinos as fiery. Within early Hollywood, Black and Asian people were targeted the most, Nancy Wang Yuen who is a sociologist wrote “racism, in the form of job exclusion and racially stereotyped roles, has defined Hollywood film industry since its birth in the 1900s”. Disney has even had examples of racial stereotypes, with Aladdin the Arab protagonists are poor and dumb, in The Lion King the hyenas speak with an African American dialect. This proves there is racial discrimination in movies for all ages and another problem with characters of ethnicity is their characters seem to the ones who die first and their narrative ends abruptly.
The production teams of Hollywood hasn’t shy away from the fact they know they are reluctant to hire minority actors but instead of using an all-white cast. This is an issue which is ongoing and spoken about almost daily, the directors and the production teams need to start to change the racial barriers and start including more diverse cast members. There are many branches within the Hollywood media; television, music, news and most important of all the film industry where the social inequality is evident and it needs to start changing as there is a need for more minorities to be cast in major film roles.
There is a slow change within Hollywood, about how people of colour are portrayed, and the numbers matters. There are other aspects within Hollywood which are evolving as there are more women, people of colour and LGBTQ behind the camera as directors, writers and producers. This is arguably the most invisible aspect of the industry and the less likely to receive any attention when it is awards season. Spike Lee has earned himself his first best director nomination with BlacKKKlansman, there are critics which see this shift as a result of having more women and people of colour within their voting pool. With other films as Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians 2018 could have been seen as a year of diversity within the cinema industry.
The Oscars are important to people and the event where the first-time indigenous actress from Mexico and a veteran African American director is praise-worthy. “everyone has their own way of coping with the idea that the society is not racially inclusive”
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THE 90th OSCARS® REUNITES HOST JIMMY KIMMEL AND PRODUCERS MICHAEL DE LUCA AND JENNIFER TODD
LOS ANGELES, CA – For a second consecutive year, late-night talk show favorite Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the Oscars® telecast and Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd will produce, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced today. The 90th Academy Awards® will air live on the ABC Television Network and broadcast outlets worldwide on Oscar® Sunday, March 4, 2018.
"Jimmy, Mike and Jennifer are truly an Oscar Dream Team," said Boone Isaacs. "Mike and Jennifer produced a beautiful show that was visually stunning. And Jimmy proved, from his opening monologue all the way through a finale we could never have imagined, that he is one our finest hosts in Oscar history."
"Hosting the Oscars was a highlight of my career and I am grateful to Cheryl, Dawn and the Academy for asking me to return to work with two of my favorite people, Mike De Luca and Jennifer Todd," said Kimmel. "If you think we screwed up the ending this year, wait until you see what we have planned for the 90th anniversary show!"
Oscar Statuette. Photo by Naomi Richard
"It’s not often you get two chances to have a once-in-a-lifetime experience and even more rare to be handed the keys to a party 90 years in the making," said De Luca and Todd. "We always thought the idea that anything can happen on the Oscars was a cliché until we lived it."
"Our Oscars team this year delivered a show that hit every high note," said Academy CEO Dawn Hudson. "Jimmy brought back the essence and light touch of the greatest hosts of Oscars' past. Mike and Jennifer's love of movies is infectious and touched every aspect of the show. This is the perfect team to lead us into the ninth decade."
"After just one year, we can’t imagine anyone else hosting The Oscars. Jimmy’s skillful command of the stage is invaluable on a night when anything can happen – and does," said Channing Dungey, President, ABC Entertainment. "With Mike and Jennifer at the helm, we’re ready for another unforgettable show that will dazzle, delight and, most importantly, honor 90 years of Hollywood’s most prestigious award."
Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of the Emmy®-winning "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," ABC’s late-night talk show. Now in its 15th season, "JKL" has earned six Emmy nominations in the Outstanding Variety Series Talk category, the Writing for a Variety Series category, and the Variety, Music or Comedy Series category.
De Luca earned Best Picture Oscar nominations for producing "Captai" Phillips," "Moneyball" and "The Social Network." He is credited on more than 60 films, including the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy, "Blow," "Magnolia," "American History X" and "Boogie Nights." He is a former president of production at Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks and New Line Cinema.
Todd is currently president of Pearl Street Films, the production company founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, where she produced "Live by Night" and executive produced last year’s "Jason Bourne." Her other credits include such films as "Alice through the Looking Glass," "Celeste and Jesse Forever," "Alice in Wonderland," "Across the Universe," "Prime," "Memento," "Boiler Room" and the "Austin Powers" films. Todd earned an Emmy nomination for her work on the HBO television movie "If These Walls Could Talk 2."
The 90th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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