Hollywood made history in 2020, fielding a record number of films from female directors. But after achieving that milestone, the film business found itself regressing in 2021 with women comprising …
But after achieving that milestone, the film business found itself regressing in 2021 with women comprising 17% of directors on the top 250 grossing movies, down from 18% the previous year. The picture grows darker when the focus narrows to the top 100 most popular movies at the box office — women comprised 12% of directors on those films, down from 16% in 2020.
“Appearances can be deceiving,” Martha Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film and the report’s author, said. “While Chloé Zhao won the Oscar last year for directing ‘Nomadland,’ and Jane Campion is a front-runner in this year’s race for ‘The Power of the Dog,’ the percentage of women directing films actually declined in 2021.
When you drill down into each individual role, there were other signs of progress. Women accounted for 26% of executive producers on the top grossing movies, which was up from 21% in 2020, and 32% of producers, an increase from 30% in 2020. Seventeen percent of writers on the most popular films were women, which was the same percentage as 2020. The same held true for female editors and cinematographers .
The study does attempt to more fully capture how people are watching movies at a time when many moviegoers are reticent to return to theaters as COVID surges. To that end, the study also tracked women’s employment on films included on the Digital Entertainment Group’s Top 20 Watched at Home list from January through December. That list includes U.S.
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