Why Cinematography Is Oscars’ Biggest Boys Club, With Only 2 Female Nominees in 94 Years
thewrap.comTheWrap’s Steve Pond predicts that Wegner will take home the trophy, giving her the edge over “Dune” DP Greig Fraser (the cinematographer of Campion’s previous movie “Bright Star”), who has scored the BAFTA and ASC precursors.
But Wegner’s nomination alone still marks a milestone.She joined Rachel Morrison (who photographed 2017’s “Mudbound”) as the only women ever nominated in the category.
That’s two out of more than 500 cinematography nominees since the first Oscars in 1929. And this particular award, in fact, has even had more people nominated than other branches of the Academy, because from the 1930s to the 60s, there were two category lineups to distinguish between color and black-and-white movies.
The lack of gender parity in the film industry is not surprising. After all, even with an aggressive membership drive by the Academy in recent years, the voting body is still two-thirds men, 68 percent to 32 percent.
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