Women held 21% of the top positions in the film industry in 2019, according to a report from the University of San Diego released on January 2 and spotted by the Hollywood Reporter. The faculty arrived at this result by counting the number of women directors, screenwriters, producers, editors and directors of photography on the 250 films which made the most admissions in 2019. This is a very slight improvement compared to 2018, where this figure was 20%.
The improvement is clearer for female directors alone, who make up 13% of battalions this year, compared to 8% last year. Among the films directed by women who have worked the most at the box office, we find The Girls of Doctor March ( Little Women) by Greta Gerwig, Hustlers by Lorene Scafaria, or Booksmart by Olivia Wilde. To find out if these figures represent a trend, we will have to wait for those of 2020 and 2021, says Martha Lauzen, who led the study.
1% of non-white women
At the same time, another report from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication, which analyzed the 1,300 most important films of 2019, reported a close figure of only 10.6% female directors. However, this is the highest figure in 13 years, the average over these 13 years being only 4.8% of female directors. The proportion of non-white women is even lower (1%, or 13 women out of 1,300 films analyzed during these 13 years).
The University of San Diego's analysis of the 500 biggest films also shows that female directors tend to employ slightly more women in higher positions.
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