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1. • • A survey of the top 250 films of 2018 at the domestic box office found that women made up just 8 percent of the directors involved, a number that was down 3 percentage points from the 11 percent in 2017. It’s also 1 percent below the 9 percent recorded 10 years ago, in 1998.
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     Study: Women Film Directors Saw Their Numbers Shrink in 2018

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   • The number of female directors employed in the global film industry is still abysmally low. But much is being done to fix this, and women are leading the way, writes Harriet Constable. “Sometimes women can’t ask for control, so they have to take it. Ok?

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   Does a female director work better than a male director?

   • Research from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film shows that movies with a female director “employed greater percentages of women writers, editors, cinematographers, and composers than films with exclusively male directors.”

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   How many movies are edited by women?

   • Nearly half of films here have at least one female editor (46%) and it’s similar for producers (45%). Editing roles have historically been more gender-inclusive: 14 movies edited by women have won Oscars for Best Film Editing, including classics like Star Wars (Marcia Lucas in 1977) and Jaws (Verna Fields in 1975).

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   Are women directors taking on bigger projects?

   • Around the world there is an upward trend in the number of women directors taking on bigger and better projects in Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood and beyond. The Wedding Party, Nigeria’s highest-grossing movie of 2016, was directed by female filmmaker Kemi Adetiba.

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   Are Hollywood's top women taking control?

   • That Hollywood’s top women are taking control is especially important when you look at the statistics. In the US, women comprised just 8% of directors working on the top 250 US domestic grossing films in 2018. That’s actually 1% below the number in 1998, and if you narrow it down to the top 100 grossing Hollywood films, the figure drops to just 4%.

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   How many female editors are there in a film industry?

   • Another encouraging finding is the better female representation among editors (42% female), production designers (31%) and producers (29%). Nearly half of films here have at least one female editor (46%) and it’s similar for producers (45%).

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   Jan 3, 2019 · 2018 may have been a good year for Greta Gerwig, Ava DuVernay and some other major female directors. But a new San Diego State University study shows the numbers don’t match the headlines when...

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   May 9, 2018 · Three out of 21 directors in the running for the 2018 Palme d’Or are female: Eva Husson for Girls of the Sun, Nadine Labaki for Capernaum, and Alice Rohrwacher for Lazzaro Felice. Let’s say...

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   Nov 29, 2019 · The number of female directors in the global film industry is still abysmally low. But much is being done to fix this, and women are leading the way, writes Harriet Constable.

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   Jan 26, 2021 · According to the latest Celluloid Ceiling study of gender and employment in key behind-the-scenes roles, women accounted for 16% of directors working on the top 100 (domestic) grossing films in 2020, up from 12% in 2019 and a measly — and frankly mind-bending — 4% in 2018.

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   Jan 3, 2019 · Among the top films in 2018 directed by women were Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time and Kay Cannon’s Blockers. Of the top 10 highest grossing films in 2018, not one was directed by a...

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   Jan 3, 2019 · A recent study by the annual Celluloid Ceiling from San Diego State University found that women comprised just 8 percent of directors working on the top 250 Hollywood hits of 2018 — a...