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Gender, Race, and the 2012 Best Picture Oscar Nominees

Yesterday Gwen Sharp posted the results of an L.A. Times study on the demographics of the Academy voters who decide who receives Oscars. What about the movies they’ll be voting on this year? The always-awesome Anita Sarkeesian, of Feminist Frequency, produced a short video applying the Bechdel test — the simple measure of even minimal representation of women in film — to the 2012 Oscar nominees, as well as a racial version of the Bechdel test that looks at how non-Whites are included. The results are not encouraging.

The Video Remix ‘Supercut’ Comes of Age

Andy “Waxy” Baio writes about the “Supercut” phenomenon for Wired — these being videos that edit together dozens (sometimes hundreds) of instances of some iconic cinematic moment, whether it’s Sarah Palin’s breathing, Obama’s mentioning of “spending,” Hollywood actors answering the phone (or saying “We’ve got company” or similar cliches), or every instance of “dude” from The Big Lebowski.

“According to the turker estimates, the average supercut is composed of about 82 cuts, with more than 100 clips in about 25% of the videos. Some supercuts, about 5%, contain over 300 edits!”