A new report reveals that women remain significantly underrepresented behind the camera in Hollywood, despite directing some of the year's highest-grossing films.
Despite some of Hollywood ’s ‘buzziest’ blockbusters being helmed by women, they are still grossly underrepresented behind the camera, a new report has confirmed. Written by the head of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, Dr. Martha M. Lauzen, it issues a stark warning for the future of show business.
The Celluloid Ceiling has collated figures from behind the scenes of 2024’s top-grossing movies (those released at the box office) and has done so for the past 27 years. And unfortunately, even in light of major wins for women in 2023 such as Greta Gerwig’s astonishing Barbie domination, the opportunities remain few and far between. The study – which examined 3,300 credits – found that women made up only 16% of directors in 2024’s top 250 movies. This decreased to 11% in the top 100 (down three per cent from 2023). What’s more, as directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers in the top 100 films, women only made up 22% of these positions, down one per cent from 2023. Greta Gerwig broke $1billion at the box office, yet women still aren’t getting the same opportunities. High-profile movies such as Love Lies Bleeding broke through in 2024. This is further proven by the bleak statistic that while 70% of films employed 10 or more men in the key behind-the-scenes roles, a poor 8% employed 10 or more women. This is in a year that saw many impressive films helmed by women including, Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding, Zoe Kravitz’s Blink Twice and Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera. As the author said: ‘Women directed and wrote some of the year’s buzziest films, including The Substance and Babygirl. But their directors, Coralie Fargeat and Halina Reijn remain exceptions, not the rule
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