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Facts to Know About Women in Hollywood
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1) Women account for 50% of moviegoers. (MPA 2019)
2) On the top 100 grossing films of 2019, women represented:
- 10.7% of directors
- 19.4% of writers
- 24.3% of producers
- 70.4% of casting directors
3) On the top 250 grossing films of 2019, women comprised 6% of composers. This represents no change since 2019. (Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film)
4) Kathryn Bigelow, Chloé Zhao, and Jane Campion are the only women to ever win the Academy Award for Best Director.
- Only seven women have ever been nominated (Lina Wertmüller, Campion, Sofia Coppola, Bigelow, Greta Gerwig, Zhao, and Emerald Fennell).
- Zhao is not only the first woman of color to be nominated in the section, she is the first woman of color to win.
- Campion is the only woman to be nominated in the category more than once (in 1994 for “The Piano” and 2022 for “The Power of the Dog”).
5) In 2018 “Mudbound’s” Rachel Morrison became the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Cinematography.
6) 41 of 2021’s top 100 films featured a female lead or co-lead. (Inclusion Initiative)
7) 60.6% of all speaking female characters were white in the top films of 2021. 19.3% were Black, 9.5% were Latina, 8.4% were Asian or Asian American, 0.3% were Native American, 0.5 were MENA, and 1.4% were of multiple races or ethnicities. (Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film)
8) On the top 500 films of 2019, movies with at least one female director employed greater percentages of women writers, editors, cinematographers, and composers than films with exclusively male directors. (Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film)
9) DIVERSITY SELLS:
- In 2018, films with casts that were 21-30% minority enjoyed the highest median global box office receipts. In 2019, this honor went to films with casts that were 41-50% minority.
- Films with casts that were 41-50% minority were released in the most international markets, on average, in both 2018 and 2019.
(UCLA)
10) During the 2019-2020 TV season:
- Women accounted for 30% of all creators, directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and directors of photography working on broadcast network, cable, and streaming programs
- The number of women creators (28%) marked a historic high
- 94% of the programs considered had no women directors of photography, 76% had no women directors, 81% had no women editors, 73% had no women creators
- 20% of female characters were Black, 5% were Latina, and 8% were Asian