A year after Frances McDormand's Oscars speech, are inclusion riders making progress?
"I have two words to leave you with tonight, ladies and gentlemen," said Frances McDormand in her Oscars acceptance speech last year. "Inclusion rider."
Just like that, the little-known industry term was instantly catapulted into the public sphere. Actors, directors and producers began tweeting their pledges to adopt the inclusion rider - an additional contract provision stipulating that a project's inclusion, onscreen and behind the scenes, reflect real-world demographics.
After lighting search engines and social media ablaze, can two words mentioned in an Oscars speech truly change the industry? One year later, the effect has largely been more symbolic than substantial. But major steps have been taken by its foremost champions.
After pledging on Instagram to support the addendum, Michael B. Jordan and his production company Outlier Society signed first-look deals
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