Powerful Women in Hollywood

So women...? here are notes... scattered thinky thoughts

The study found that women comprised 20% of all directors, writers, executive producers, producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the watched at home films in 2021, an increase of a percentage point from the prior year.

Examining the 1,300 top films from 2007 - 2019, the Annenberg researchers found that on average just 4.8 percent of directors were women, yet that spiked to 10.6 percent in 2019.

The Celluloid Ceiling Report reveals that women made up 12% of directors working on the 100 top-grossing films in 2021, down from 16% in 2020. When expanding to the 250 top-grossing films, women represented 17% of directors in 2021, down from 18% in 2021.

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%...

Just 2 women have won Best Director in the Academy Awards 93-year history. Kathryn Bigelow took the prize in 2010 for war thriller The Hurt Locker and Chloe Zhao for Nomadland = 8 nominated total

By role, women accounted for 17% of writers (even with 17% in 2020), 26% of executive producers (up from 21% in 2020), 32% of producers (up from 30% in 2020), 22% of editors (even with 22% in 2020), and 6% of cinematographers (even with 6% in 2020). In 2021?

Women comprised 18% of editors, 12% of writers, and 3% of cinematographers. The number of female cinematographers increased by a percentage point, but the number of writers and editors fell by eight percentage points and five points, respectively. In 2020?

In its entire history, fewer than 800 cinematographers have had the honor of placing the letters ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) after their names, and fewer than 20 of them have been women. Other than the stuntmen's organizations, which don't have any female members at all, no other industry group has fewer women. = 2.5%

“The fact that so few directors who are women made it to the top of the poll isn’t surprising to me,” says Gabrielle Kelly, Screenwriting Faculty at AFI, and author and editor of Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through. “Film studies have always focused on men because men have controlled most aspects of film, ever since it became a profitable business in the US, back in the early days of cinema."

There were 1,268 individual directors hired to work in the 2019-20 season. A breakdown follows: 35% were women… 77% of those directed TV. DGA#.

The Original Six are a group of women directors who created the Women's Steering Committee of the Director's Guild of America (DGA). Dolores Ferraro, Joelle Dobrow, Lynne Littman, Nell Cox, Susan Bay Nimoy + Victoria Hochberg formed the Women's Steering Committee of the Director's Guild of America in 1979. They carried out

landmark research showing that women held only 0.5% of directing jobs in film and television, which they reported to the Guild, the studios + the press.

= studios are the issue - tv/indies are better.

Celluloid Ceiling: The Percentage of women film directors decreases as the level of investment in a film increases.

Womenandhollywood.com/resouces/statistics/ Women account for 50% of moviegoers.

On the top 100 grossing films of 2019 women represented:

• 10.7% of directors

• 19.4% of writers

• 24.3% of producers

• 70.4% of casting directors

• 43 of those 100 movies featured a female lead or co-lead

Only seven women have ever been nominated for Best Director. Kathryn Bigelow and Chloe Zhao are the only women to ever win the Academy Award for Best Director

Early films were typically edited by women. Editing was considered "women's work" and was compared to sewing.

Alice Guy-Blaché: french director and made one of the first narrative films. She ran her won film studio, Solax.

Mary Pickford: co-founded two studios. 1 of 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Pictures. She also created the Hollywood Studio Club (1916-1975).

Debra Hill

Lucile Ball

Kathleen Kennedy: She's a legendary film producer and current president of LucasFilm. She co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall.

Jennifer Lee is the first woman to direct a Disney animated movie (Frozen) and the first female director whose movie grossed over $1 billion dollars.

Trilogies: Matrix*, Fear Street, Bridget Jones, and Slumber Party Massacre

Amy Heckerling. Sofia Coppola. Kathryn Bigelow.

Amy Sherman Palladino. Tina Fey. Shonda Rhimes. Susan Harris.

Charlotte Sue Brown - might have been the first woman showrunner for a primetime tv series 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' spin-off 'Rhoda'

First named actor was a woman- Florence Lawrence

Betty White: The First Lady of Television

Betty White was the first woman to produce a national TV show, the first woman to star in a sitcom, the first producer to hire a female director and the first woman to receive an Emmy nomination.

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