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Walmart is facing criticism for not featuring any female directors for an ad campaign that aired during Sunday’s Academy Awards.

The world’s largest retailer is a sponsor of the Oscars and commissioned several short films directed by prominent filmmakers. Marc Forster, Antoine Fuqua, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were tasked to create a short film based on items from a Walmart receipt.

Award-winning director Antoine Fuqua brings us an extraordinary tale, inspired by a single Walmart receipt. #TheReceipt #Oscars pic.twitter.com/dSiWvxmARf

— Walmart (@Walmart) February 27, 2017

When the store’s ads aired Sunday night, viewers noticed that none of them were directed by women — including Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday, who tweeted that she was “disappointed” that female filmmakers were left out. Women have long been underrepresented in the film industry, particularly as directors, producers, writers, editors, cinematographers and other roles behind the camera.

So disappointed in @Walmart and @TheAcademy for not commissioning any women to make a 'Receipt' film tonight. Bummer. #Oscars2017

— Ann Hornaday (@AnnHornaday) February 27, 2017

Walmart told Hornaday that the company did ask female directors to participate in the series, but none did, “mainly due to scheduling.”

@AnnHornaday We did reach out to women directors and it didn’t work out, mainly due to scheduling.

— Walmart (@Walmart) February 27, 2017

Walmart did not return a request for comment.

Just like the lack of racial diversity, there is an alarming and disappointing lack of gender parity in Hollywood. Year after year, studies have shown that women are woefully underrepresented in the film industry, especially in behind-the-camera roles and leadership positions.

In 2016, only 7 percent of the 250 top-grossing films were directed by women, according to researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film at San Diego State University. Women made up only 24 percent of producers, 17 percent of editors, 13 percent of writers and 5 percent of cinematographers who worked on those films. The rates were slightly higher for smaller, independent movies.

But even more alarming is the relative lack of change. The same study found that the overall percentage of women working behind the scenes was the same as it was in 1998.

The problem was even the subject of a federal investigation in 2015. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reportedly forced major studios to settle allegations that they have “systematically discriminated against female directors.”

Only one woman has ever won the Oscar for Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, for her 2009 film “The Hurt Locker.”

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You can learn a lot about Steve Bannon by watching the films he made

By Ann Hornaday Movie critic February 2 at 1:25 PM

Before becoming President Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon was a filmmaker with many credits to his name. (Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg News) The first and last time I ever saw Stephen K. Bannon was last May at the Cannes Film Festival, where his film “Clinton Cash” was screening for overseas buyers. The documentary, a strategically timed takedown of Hillary Clinton centering on her alleged ethical lapses and dubious financial dealings, was based on Peter Schweizer’s 2015 book of the same name. While I interviewed Schweizer in an empty ballroom of a Croisette hotel, Bannon — who wrote and produced “Clinton Cash” — paced outside, occasionally stealing a furtive glance our way through an open door.

I was familiar with Bannon’s work as a filmmaker, having reviewed his 2011 documentary, “The Undefeated,” about Sarah Palin. So when he joined Donald Trump’s campaign last year, and later assumed duties as the president’s chief strategist, his worldview wasn’t completely unknown to me. The former Navy officer and Goldman Sachs banker entered the movie business on the money side, executive producing such highly regarded feature films as “The Indian Runner” and “Titus.” In 2004, he began producing, writing and sometimes directing his own movies, starting with “In the Face of Evil: Reagan’s War in Word and Deed,” an admiring portrait of Ronald Reagan; since then, he’s produced films about illegal immigration (“Cochise County USA: Cries From the Border,” “Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration”), the roots of the global economic crisis (“Generation Zero”), a nefariously overreaching federal government (“Battle for America”) and conservative women (“Fire From the Heartland”), among others.

Although Bannon has produced the occasional fiction feature, most of his creative energy has gone into making nonfiction agitprop designed to whip viewers into a froth of either adulation or rage, but always into passionate political action. Unlike his most readily comparable counterpart, Michael Moore, who can be relied upon to serve up similarly sanguinary red meat to his base, Bannon prefers to stay in the background, wielding his auteurist power with an invisible hand. His most recent film, “Torchbearer,” features “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson delivering an hour-long sermon about the existential necessity of a Judeo-Christian republic, his long gray beard and booming voice lending Old Testament gravitas to the oratory. In the 2012 film “Occupy Unmasked,” the late Andrew Breitbart — whose website, Breitbart News, Bannon took over that year — debunks the Occupy Wall Street movement as the cynical product of an organized Left “hellbent on the nihilistic destruction of everything the American people care for.”

[‘Why even let ’em in?’ Understanding Bannon’s worldview and the policies that follow.]

Distinct Manichaean themes emerge within Bannon’s collected works, echoing the same urgent, apocalyptic anti-globalism he’s espoused in speeches and on Breitbart News. Contemptuous of the “permanent political class,” crony capitalism, hippies and community organizers (who “hate this country . . . hate the Constitution [and] hate freedom”), Bannon doesn’t see the world in terms of partisan politics as much as a cage-match clash of civilizations: In the 2012 documentary “District of Corruption,” about the conservative watchdog group and longtime Clinton antagonists Judicial Watch, the filmmaker doesn’t exempt George W. Bush from scrutiny, recounting such controversies as the Jack Abramoff scandal, Dick Cheney’s closed-door energy task force and the special treatment of bin Laden and Saudi royal family members immediately after Sept. 11, 2001. Still, most of “District of Corruption” is spent attacking Barack Obama for voting irregularities, lack of transparency, executive overreach and filling high-ranking positions with big-money donors.

Politics News Alerts Major national and political news as it breaks. Sign up (Mike Lynaugh/Corbis/Victory Film Group) Interestingly, Trump himself now stands accused of those very same transgressions, as well as foreign and financial entanglements that have already prompted a clutch of lawsuits. At Cannes last May, when Schweizer insisted that his real target wasn’t the Clintons but the “apparatus which allows foreign money to influence American political figures,” he vowed that if Trump won the election, he would investigate him just as energetically. When I recently inquired how that project was going via Twitter, Schweizer responded, “I had four years of material for the #ClintonCash movie. Give it time . . .”

If Schweizer makes good on his promise, odds are good that the film he makes won’t be a Stephen K. Bannon production. In the meantime, it seems that Trump is clearly a fan of the Bannon canon: His recent policy actions, particularly the travel ban on refugees and on citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries, can be traced, directly or at least philosophically, to the views espoused in Bannon’s films.

But far more than content, it’s Bannon’s formal strategy that has clearly informed the early days of the Trump administration, during which headlong gestures and heated dialogue have outpaced the niceties of protocol and collegial politesse. As a filmmaker, Bannon has refined a distinctive rhetoric, usually composed of a verbal argument illustrated by febrile images, lurid graphics and visual effects that run the gamut from slick to schlocky, all set to vaguely alarmist music that grows more threatening as the film reaches its doomsday climax.

The result is something akin to a Fox News version of Leni Riefenstahl, with all of her propagandistic fervor and none of her compositional elegance. As a visual stylist, Bannon favors standard direct-to-video flourishes: stock footage of money being printed and writhing, unkempt flower children, frenetic editing, and, at least in “Torchbearer,” bloody reenactments of Christian persecution. Even his public statements are grounded in shock-and-awe entertainment values. “Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power,” he told the Hollywood Reporter last year. Two years earlier, during a conference at the Vatican, he could have been delivering an elevator pitch for one of his coming attractions when he described the crisis of what he called “jihadist Islamic fascism”: There’s “a major war brewing, a war that’s already global,” he said during a Skype call from his Los Angeles office. “Every day that we refuse to look at this as what it is — and the scale of it, and really the viciousness of it — will be a day where you will rue that we didn’t act.”

As a seasoned pro with a knack for narrative and heightened emotional stakes, Bannon knows how to work a crowd. And he knows the value of a compulsively watchable protagonist, whether it’s a charismatic figure such as Palin or Robertson, an anti-hero on a par with Hillary Clinton or a “blunt instrument” like Trump, with whom he shares an instinct for camera-ready stagecraft. Even Trump’s rollout of the new immigration plan — announced unvetted, and before the people in charge of implementing and enforcing it had been properly read in — felt more like the adrenaline-fueled jolt of superhero catharsis than carefully considered policy. (Legislative process, apparently, is strictly for art-house nerds.)

In other words, Bannon is as reflexively attuned to the spectacle as the substance of the “major war” that he and his boss are girding themselves to wage. The paradigm shift he craves is less about constitutional norms and democratic institutions — which have a tendency to bog down the second act — than the kind of propulsive provocations he has specialized in as a consummate showman. As far as political reality goes, it’s Bannon’s movie, we’re now in it, and the opening credits have just started to roll.

Stephen Bannon's White House role expands amid immigration turmoil  Play Video2:53 As nationwide protests against President Trump’s immigration mandate rage on, he reshuffled the National Security Council and put chief strategist and former Breitbart News chair Stephen Bannon in an unprecedented national security role. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) 58 Comments Share on FacebookShare  Share on TwitterTweet Share via Email

Ann Hornaday is The Post's chief film critic.  Follow @AnnHornaday

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