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This combination of photos shows Greg Berlanti at the 33rd annual Producers Guild Awards in Los Angeles on March 19, 2022, left, and director Ava Duvernay at the photo call for the film "Origin" during the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 6, 2023. Berlati and Duvernay are included on a list hat scores them for the diversity and inclusion of the people working both on screen and behind the scenes. (AP Photo)

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This image released by Netflix shows Phoebe Dynevor, left, and Rege-Jean Page in a scene from &quot;Bridgerton.&quot; The Screen Actors Guild has nominated the cast for a SAG Award for best ensemble in a drama series. (Liam Daniel/Netflix via AP)

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This image released by Disney shows Mena Massoud as Aladdin, left, and Will Smith as Genie in Disney's live-action adaptation of the 1992 animated classic &quot;Aladdin.&quot; A new study captures how the film industry has improved in diversity and how it still lags. In the most popular films of 2019, protagonists were more diverse than ever. (Disney via AP)

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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2017 file photo shows Barry Jenkins and the cast and crew of &quot;Moonlight&quot; accepting the award for best picture at the Oscars in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Pop culture in 2010s marked gains in diversity, inclusion

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In this Jan. 2, 2015, file photo, Ava DuVernay poses at the Palm Springs International Film Festival opening night screening of &quot;Selma,&quot; at Palm Springs High School, in Palm Springs, Calif. In one of the exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are “whitewashed,” and that an “epidemic of invisibility” runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people. (Photo by Rob Latour/Invision/AP, File)

Damning study finds a ‘whitewashed’ Hollywood

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Study: Women fare better in independent film

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