Integrating Ava DuVernay, the Oscars want to correct the image of a Hollywood too white and male

This victory is without a doubt a special flavor. On Thursday, the director Ava DuVernay has been elected to the executive committee of the Oscars. Great achievement for the filmmaker, whose filmography does not cease to denounce the latent racism of the society and of american institutions towards the black community, the documentary The 13th to the mini-series looks In their eyes . It will be first in line for reform academy which, five years ago even, had snubbed her film Selma. On Twitter, Ava DuVernay, which uses, for fifteen days for his account to identify one by one the victims of police violence, has welcomed with excitement the evolution of mentalities within the Academy of the Oscars.