A look at the Oscars' gender disparity, plus eight female directors to follow.
and made great money. But as it became clear how lucrative the business could be, men began taking over. In the late 1920s and early ’30s, Hollywood transitioned to talkies, cinematic ventures boomed, and women began to get pushed out of the better-paid directing, screenwriting, and producing roles. The few who managed to stay on top are considered pioneers and groundbreakers.
The Academy Awards ceremony was first held in May of 1929, at the start of this era, and for the next 47 years, the only people nominated for Best Director were men. Lina Wertmüller broke that streak when she was nominated for her genre-bending 1975 arthouse film,After Wertmüller, nearly 20 years passed before the next woman was nominated: Jane Campion, forin 2004.
in 2018. By then, more women were being given the chance to helm their own films—that is, granted money and permission by the men in power—and more were doing it on their own, thanks in part to the advent of digital technology and the indie film boom.and Chloé Zhao was nominated for. This marked the first time in the Oscars’ nearly century-long history that two women were included in the Best Director category.
You could argue that these aughts-era nominations suggest things are improving, if agonizingly slowly, but the statistics are still discouraging., which puts out an annual report on filmmaker statistics focusing on the year’s 100 highest-grossing films, noted a nearly 18 percent dip in the number of films directed by women in 2021. Only 14 of the top 100 movies were directed by women and only four directed by women of color .
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