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8 mar 2024 · Only 17% of nominees at the Oscars since 1929 have been women – and less than 2% of nominees were women of colour, new research shows. Gender inequality at the Academy Awards is indicative of trends in the wider film industry, and society as a whole.
8 mar 2023 · In 2021, 22 percent of all editors were female, while the share of female directors and writers stood at 17 percent each. Female cinematographers are even rarer.
9 maj 2018 · Since 1990, 16% of lead cast and crew working on best picture-winning films have been female – 27% of acting stars and a tiny 9% of those behind the scenes.
In the opening months of 2022, men comprised 69% (69.2%), women 31% (30.5%), and nonbinary individuals 0.3% of reviewers. For women, this represents a decline of 4 percentage points from 35% in 2020. Further, male critics outnumber female critics in every job category, type of media outlet, and film genre considered.
Only 19% of films were written by a female-driven team of screenwriters (i.e. by a majority of female professionals in the role of screenwriter). This report provides an overview of the gender disparity among film professionals working in the European film industry.
On average, women working in behind-the-camera roles worked on slightly fewer films than their male counterparts. Between 2016 and 2020 the average share of female directors per film was only 20%, with no significant evolution over the years. This figure was 25% for screenwriters.
13 maj 2020 · Our study demonstrates that inequality is still widespread in the film industry. In movies of 2018, a median of 30% women and a mean of 33% were found in each movie’s top-10 most central roles.
