Women Won Only 23% of Oscars This Year, Worst Showing in 4 Years

thewrap.com:

individual Oscar statuettes handed out on Sunday night, the worst showing for female winners since the 2018 Academy Awards. That’s 23% of the overall individual winners across the Oscars’ 23 competitive categories, bolstered by wins for Best Director Jane Campion, as well as others for Sian Heder for Best Adapted Screenplay and Billie Eilish for Best Original Song.

This tally, however, does not include the International Feature category, which is awarded to the film’s country of origin — in this case, Japan for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car.”That total was a drop from last year when we saw Chloé Zhao win Best Director for “Nomadland,” just the second woman to ever do so, as well as Emerald Fennell picking up Best Original Screenplay for “Promising Young Woman.” Their wins in 2021 helped women secure 17 wins out of 47 individual winners from the 23 competitive categories, which was an all-time record for women at the Oscars.

Of the 229 individual nominees from 2022’s crop of nominated films, TheWrap counted 65 were women (or 28.3%). That was also a decline from last year, when a record 76 of the 235 individual nominees (32.3%) were women, and also a drop from 2020, when 65 of 209 individual nominees were women (31.1%).Fortunately, the two frontrunners in this year’s Oscars Best Picture race were each directed by women: “The Power of the Dog” from Campion and “CODA” from Heder, with “CODA” ultimately winning Best Picture.

Campion also became just the third woman to ever win Best Director following Kathryn Bigelow and Zhao, and it cements her status after she was one of the few women ever even nominated for Best Director.