Hollywood Studies Show Few Gains For Women, People Of Color Directing Films In 2022
deadline.comA pair of studies released Monday from San Diego State’s annual The Celluloid Ceiling report and USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative showed few gains for women and people of color working in the film industry in 2022.
In the SDSU study (read it here), which has tracked women’s employment on the 250 top-grossing films for the past 25 years, this year’s findings reveal that 11% of directors of 2022’s 100 top-grossing domestic films were women, down 1% year-over-year.
Among the top 250 films, that number rose to 18%, up 1%. Overall, women comprised 24% of all directors, writers, executive producers, editors and cinematographers working on the 250 top-grossing films of 2022, a 1% decline from 2021.
In 1998, the first year of the Celluloid Ceiling report, that number was 17%. Among 2022’s top 250 films, the report found, women comprised 19% of writers, 25% of executive producers, 31% of producers, 21% of editors, and 7% of cinematographers.
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