* Hollywood is a $36.5 billion worldwide box office business. While it only breaks down race for the US the MPAA (google: MPAA Theatrical Market statistics) does list countries and geographic regions. A crude approximation of their box office by race/ethnicity is thus able to be calculated and I have come up with the following:
Blacks – $2 billion (more than half in the US)
Whites – $15 billion (roughly 1/3rd in the US)
Hispanics – $6 billion (roughly 40% in the US)
East Asians – $10 billion (roughly 10% in the US)
Indian subcontinent – $2 billion
Middle East and rest of Asia – $1.5 billion
If anybody should be complaining its the Chinese/Japanese/Koreans that comprise 25% of Hollywood’s box office gross.
I might also point out from a racial breakdown US movie goers are 25% Hispanic, 55% white, 10% black, 10% Asian and other. So if there is a group that is really getting shafted in America its the Hispanics that are punching well above their weight in movie theater ticket purchases.
I might also point out that the Oscars themselves are a production to be sold, and while I haven’t gone out and dug up the numbers, I bet that the demographic there overly skews white female and should therefore put forward the people they want to see the most.
* It could be that just as Jewish overrepresentation and white Christian/gentile underrepresentation within white and overall representation are unnoticed and or considered irrelevant, black overrepresentation and Asian and Hispanic underrepresentation within the diversity or non-white and overall representation are unnoticed and or considered irrelevant.
