According to a new s🌳tudy, women directed a record number of Hollywood movies last year.
As reported by , the study from th♔e Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University revealed that women represented 16% of directors working on the 100 highest-grossing movies in 2020. That may not be a huge number, but the figure is up from 12% in 2019 and 4% in 2018.
Despite several female-directed titles being pushed back to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, including Chloé Zhao’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Eternals and Cate Shortland’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Widow, Zhao still helmed the critically acclaimed Nomadland, while Cathy Yan’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Birds of Prey and Patty Jenkins’ 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Wonder Woman 1984 were two 🔜of the year’s highest-profile releases.
“The good news is that we&rsq🍌uo;ve now seen two consecutive years of♛ growth for women who direct,” the centre’s director Dr Martha Lauzen said in a statement. “This breaks a recent historical pattern in which the numbers trend up one year and down the next. The bad news is that fully 80% of top films still do not have a woman at the helm.”
The number of women in executive producer, produc♈er, and cinematographer roles also increased. However, the number of female writers and editors fell by🍸 8% and 5%, respectively.
The st🌜udy also found that movies with at least one female director were much more likely to hire women to be editors, cinematographers, or other key behind-the-scenes roles. For example, movies with female directors saw women comprising 53% of writers, whereas movies with only male directors saw women make up only 8% of writers. What’s more, 67% of movies employed between ze𓆏ro women to four women in top behind-the-scenes roles.
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