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Michael Cieply: The Academy’s Annual Survey Leaves You Wondering – What Does Hollywood Really Think?
The film Academy's annual membership survey is a nonevent, but leaves you wondering what Hollywood really thinks.
For starters, you’d have to define “Hollywood community.” I’d propose sampling all who make a living by dealing primarily with entertainment production and distribution companies based in and around Los Angeles and New York. Let’s suppose some task force funded by the Motion Picture Association, AMPAS and the Creative Coalition, with additional support from two or three private foundations to be named later, might bring it off. We and the world at large have come to view Hollywood, the entertainment business, as a progressive, left-leaning, forward-thinking, overwhelmingly Democratic, labor-friendly community that shares common assumptions about gender, race, the climate, elections and the value of education and engagement on all fronts.
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