“The pace of change has been slow for women directors,” a new report from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative concludes. Titled “Inclusion in the Director’s Chair,” the study examines the gender and race/ethnicity of directors working across the top 100 grossing fictional films from 2007 to 2022.
This year’s findings leave much to be desired. “A total of 111 directors were hired across the 100 top fictional films of 2022. Of these, 91 percent were
men and 9 percent (n=10) were women. This is a gender ratio of 10.1 male directors to 1 every one female director hired,” the report details. The 10 women were Olivia Newman