--- title: 90% of Hollywood Political Donations Are Going to Clinton description: Her showbiz friends have opened their wallets en masse canonical: https://time.com/4084807/hollywood-political-donors-hillary-clinton/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-23T12:31:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:02:07.766Z article:section: Politics og:title: 90% of Hollywood Political Donations Are Going to Clinton og:description: Her showbiz friends have opened their wallets en masse og:url: https://time.com/4084807/hollywood-political-donors-hillary-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb784ed9eee92f4de/6988698d196cf430d1038a69/hillary2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Vital Voices 2010 Global Leadership Awards og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 90% of Hollywood Political Donations Are Going to Clinton twitter:description: Her showbiz friends have opened their wallets en masse twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb784ed9eee92f4de/6988698d196cf430d1038a69/hillary2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 90% of Hollywood Political Donations Are Going to Clinton by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Oct 23, 2015 12:31 PM UTC  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Honorary Chairperson of the Avon Foundation for Women Reese Witherspoon attends Vital Voices 2010 Global Leadership Awards at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC., on March 10, 2010. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Honorary Chairperson of the Avon Foundation for Women Reese Witherspoon attends Vital Voices 2010 Global Leadership Awards at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC., on March 10, 2010.Kevin Mazur—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Oct 23, 2015 12:31 PM UTC These days, you might mistake Hillary Clinton for a filmmaker raising funds for her first big movie. The 2016 hopeful has plenty of friends in Hollywood, and it turns out that [9 out of 10 dollars](http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-prez-hollywood-donors-story.html) donated by those in the film industry to political campaigns are going to Clinton. According to a report by the L.A. _Times_, Hollywood donors have contributed $5.5 million to campaigns so far, $5 million of which has gone to Clinton as of Sept. 30\. Her biggest showbiz donors making large contributions to her Super PAC include Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Haim Saban in the $1 million range and J.J. Abrams in the $500,000 range. Individual [donors](http://graphics.latimes.com/2016-election-entertainment-donors/) on a much smaller scale include everyone from Ben Affleck to Barbra Streisand. Jeb Bush comes in second with about $165,000 from Hollywood, and Bernie Sanders rounds out the top three with $134,000—indies compared to Clinton’s blockbuster fundraising efforts in Hollywood. \[[_L.A. Times_](http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-prez-hollywood-donors-story.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4084807/hollywood-political-donors-hillary-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4084807/hollywood-political-donors-hillary-clinton/"},"headline":"90% of Hollywood Political Donations Are Going to Clinton","datePublished":"2015-10-23T12:31:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:02:07.766Z","description":"Her showbiz friends have opened their wallets en masse","url":"https://time.com/4084807/hollywood-political-donors-hillary-clinton/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb784ed9eee92f4de/6988698d196cf430d1038a69/hillary2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb784ed9eee92f4de/6988698d196cf430d1038a69/hillary2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Vital Voices 2010 Global Leadership Awards","caption":"Vital Voices 2010 Global Leadership Awards","creditText":"Kevin Mazur—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4084807/hollywood-political-donors-hillary-clinton/","name":"90% of Hollywood Political Donations Are Going to Clinton"}}]}] ```