McDormand won Best Actress at this year’s Academy Awards. — AFP
Frances McDormand left the Oscar stage after winning the Best Actress prize on Sunday (March 4) with a call for an “inclusion rider” - an obscure method to increase film production diversity that she hopes will go mainstream.
The term is not well known in Hollywood, but by early morning on Monday after the awards ceremony, Twitter boasted an #inclusionrider hashtag and a Google search of the term produced more than 10 million hits.
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