Hollywood made history by 2020, lining a number of films from the Director of Women But after reaching the milestone, the film business found himself back in 2021 with women consisting of 17% director at 250 best-selling films, down from 18% of the previous year. The picture grew darker when focusing narrowed to the 100 most popular films at the box office – women consisting of 12% director in the films, down from 16% by 2020.
This research is a product of a report entitled The Celluloid Ceiling, which is produced every year by a female study center on television and films at San Diego State University. It came as a female filmmaker like Jane Campion (“dog strength”) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (“lost daughter”) had achieved a famous critical success this year and was seen as award competitor. It was also released after several female filmmakers such as Chloé Zhao (“Eternals”) and Nia Dacosta (“Candyman”) directed the film which added the box office graph when they were released. But the researchers said that achievements remained exceptions to the rules.
Appearance can cheat, “Martha Lauzen, executive director of the female study center on television and the film writer.” While Chloé Zhao won Oscar last year to direct ‘Nomadland,’ and Jane Campion was a front runner in this year’s race for ‘dog strength , ‘The percentage of women who direct the film actually decreases in 2021. Basing our perceptions of how women tones in the good fortune of some high-profile women can lead us to end inaccurate conclusions about the state of women’s work. Once again this year, more than 80% of the film did not have a woman in a helmet. “
There are several simple improvements in other areas. Women fill 25% of the key role behind the scenes such as directors, authors, executive producers, manufacturers, editors, and cinematographers in 250 best-selling films in 2021. It increased from 23% by 2020.
When you trace every individual role, there are signs of other progress. Women contribute 26% of executive producers in the best-selling films, which rose from 21% by 2020, and 32% of producers, increased from 30% in 2020. Seventeen percent of the writers in the most popular films were women, the same percentage In 2020. The same was deemed valid for a female editor (flat at 22%) and cinematographers (flat with 6%).
Of course, this research does not fully capture the current landscape for films. Campion and Gyllenhaal, for example, make their films for Netflix, which only gives them a limited theater and who does not release box office data. That means they don’t appear on the list of the highest best-selling films. The same applies to other leading female directors such as Rebecca Hall (“passing”) or Halle Berry (“bruises”), which has their project debut on Netflix.
This study made an effort to catch more complete how people watched the film at many cinema audiences to return to the cinema as a covid surge. For this reason, this research also tracks the work of women in the film included in the top 20 digital entertainment group groups watched on the list of houses from January to December. The list includes digital sales A.S., digital rental, DVD and Blu-ray, but don’t paint a complete image because it fails to enter a premium vod, which means the film is available for rent while still in theaters. They also do not include “most streaming films” for streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime or Disney Plus. So what did he arrested? Every recently released a film U.S. which appears on the weekly list at least once included for a total of 92 films.