They can steal her Oscar, but not Frances McDormand’s thunder.
After winning Best Actress at the Oscars on Sunday night, someone made off with her award. (It was later recovered.)
Hollywood fillmakers may not recover, however, from the previously whispered two-word phrase McDormand uttered to close her acceptance speech: inclusion rider. (Not “inclusion writer” as many heard.)
“The big spike in Google searches for the phrase Sunday night reflects the frantic clatter of people across the world summoning those key words,” NPR noted.
The definition, as NPR put it: “It’s a provision that actors and actresses can ask (or demand) to have inserted into their contracts, which would require a certain level of diversity among a film’s cast and crew.”
The “Three Billboards” star herself said she learned of the practice.
“I just found out about this last week,” McDormand told reporters after the ceremon. “And so, the fact that I just learned that after 35 years of being in the film business — we’re not going back.”
“The whole idea of women ‘trending’? No. African-Americans ‘trending’? No. It changes now. And I think the inclusion rider will have something to do with that — right? Power and rules.”
What’s an ‘inclusion rider’? Frances McDormand explains backstage after her #Oscars speech pic.twitter.com/R3pAVbcYjl
— Variety (@Variety) March 5, 2018
More discussion:
INCLUSION RIDER. Explanation below: https://t.co/1mA2idrwS5
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) March 5, 2018
#Oscars: Press room now scrambling to look-up “Inclusion Rider”..
— Robert Kovacik (@RobertNBCLA) March 5, 2018
30 million people are googling “inclusion rider” and 10 million are googling “inclusion writer” #oscars90
— Dean Wehrli (@deanwehrli) March 5, 2018
The definition of an inclusion rider, courtesy of Stacy Smith’s TED Talk: https://t.co/j8hxgSnYzA pic.twitter.com/VVSIdVEjsM
— The Film Stage ???? (@TheFilmStage) March 5, 2018
Excited for all the explainers about “inclusion rider”
— Esther Zuckerman (@ezwrites) March 5, 2018