Why aren’t men going to see Little Women? GlobeArts
But when a story is about a real woman, a real life, men are not socialized to care. Not about women’s creative awakenings, à la, and not about women’s lives in general. Harriett Tubman’s exploits were as daring as any superhero’s, butwas only the 64th most popular film of 2019. Judy Garland was one of the greatest entertainers ever to have lived, butwas No. 92.
There, however, the good news ends. Over all across the 13 years, 1,448 male directors made films, but only 70 female directors. That’s nuts. For women of colour, the numbers were far worse. Moreover, while women directed 34.5 per cent of independent films in the last two years, and 31 per cent of episodic TV shows, and 20 per cent of Netflix offerings, over the past 13 years, they directed only 4.8 per cent of top-grossing theatrical films.
The study also looked at directors who were nominated for Golden Globe, Oscar, Directors Guild and Critics’ Choice awards. Only four – four! – were women: Gerwig, Kathryn Bigelow, Ava DuVernay and Angelina Jolie. Only Bigelow has ever won. Anything. Given that women directors tend to make films with women protagonists – although certainly not exclusively – what does this mean? It means that we as a society are comfortable with women heroes in little indie films, or on discrete TV episodes, but not in our blockbusters. It’s whyIt means that to the bestowers of awards, most of whom are still white men, stories about women aren’t as worthy.
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