Greta Gerwig, who directed the blockbuster Barbie, is still an anomaly in Hollywood

Greta Gerwig, who directed the blockbuster Barbie, is still an anomaly in Hollywood

Greta Gerwig delivered Hollywood’s biggest movie of 2023 with Barbie, which amassed almost $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office. The Mattel toy–inspired Warner Bros. feature made history, becoming the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman.

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Despite the glorious accolades, the hard truth remains that Gerwig is an outlier. Women filmmakers are still scarce in the industry. Of the 250 top-grossing movies in the US last year, a mere 16% were directed by women, according to a recent report by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. Among the top 100, that share falls to 14%.

“It’s the ultimate illusion,” wrote study author Martha Lauzen, the center’s founder and executive director. “Greta Gerwig’s well-deserved triumph belies the inequality that pervades the mainstream film industry.”

In fact, behind-the-scenes female participation in America’s movie industry declined in 2023. Just 22% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the 250 top-grossing films were women. That’s down from 24% in 2022, according to The Celluloid Ceiling, which has tracked women’s employment in the top 250 for 26 years.

Male-dominated Hollywood, by the digits

83%: Share of last year’s 250 top-grossing films in the US that had no women directors

94%: Share that had no women cinematographers

75%: Share that employed 10 or more men as directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers. In stark contrast, just 4% of the 250 top-grossing films employed 10 or more women

Charted: Women directors beget women crew members

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