James Cameron believes the genre’s awards drought will soon be over.
“I predict that sometime in the next five to 10 years you will have a science-fiction film win Best Picture. They’re definitely a red-headed stepchild when it comes to the acting, producing, directing categories. Science fiction is kind of a commercial genre, it’s not really an elevated dramatic genre."
Sci Fi and on its “Stale, Male, and Pale” problem“It was white guys talking about rockets. The female authors didn’t come into it until the ’50s and ’60s and a lot of them had to operate under pseudonyms."
"Women are still unrepresented in science fiction as they are in Hollywood in general. When 14 percent of all film directors in the industry are female, and they represent 50 percent of the population, that’s a big delta there that needs to get rectified."
"I want to go with somebody who inspires me to work with them. They tend to be women as much as men. In my universe, it’s 50/50. In the general Hollywood universe it’s not. From my films, I like to write strong female characters. it’s hard for me to imagine doing a ‘guy film.’ It’s just not interesting to me. So I’d say I was innately doing that before it was fashionable.”
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