With “Oscars season” in full swing, TheWeek.com reports on some startling numbers out of Hollywood: Women movie directors accounted for only 5% of films released in 2011. It was only two years ago at the 2010 Oscars where Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director (The Hurt Locker.)
TheWeek looked at a study out of San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film to report details on Hollywood’s “startling women problem”:
18 – Percentage of behind-the-scenes jobs held by women last year, up from 17% in 1998 when the center began compiling data
5 – Percentage of last year’s films directed by women compared to 9% in 1998
13.4 – Percent of the Directors Guild of America comprised of women
38 – Percentage of films last year that either employed no women, or only one, in the roles of director, producer, writer, cinematographer, or editor.
4 – Percent of last year’s cinematographers who were women
14 – Percent of writers who were women
18 – Percent of executive producers who were women
2:1 – Ratio of men to women on screen in the top 100 box office films of 2009, according to a 2011 study from the USC Annenberg School of Communication
$665.7 million – The worldwide box office haul for Kung Fu Panda 2, the highest-grossing film directed by a woman (Jennifer Yuh Nelson). The #2 all-time is $609.8 million for Mamma Mia!, directed by Phyllida Lloyd.
In 2011, SDSU reports 48% of characters in female-directed films were women and only 33% of characters were women in male-directed films. Furthermore, of the 413 “Best Director” nominees in Oscar history, only four have been women and Bigelow is the sole winner.
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