Female and minority TV directors have reached a milestone – this year, for the first time ever, they directed half of all episodic TV shows
, the guild’s Feature Film Diversity report found that women directed only 12.2% of all live-action American feature films in 2017 that grossed more than $250,000, although that was double the number from five years earlier. That report also found that only 9.7% of films with box office takes of at least $250,000 were directed by minorities — a five-year low and a precipitous drop of 46% since 2013.
According to the DGA’s data, 49% of first-time hires in the 2018-19 TV season were women – an increase from 41% in the 2017-18 season, and 33% in the prior two seasons; while 29% of first-timers were directors of color – down slightly from last year’s record of 31%, but up slightly from the previous high of 27% two years ago.
“Despite the recent progress,” the guild said, its long-term analysis has “repeatedly shown that most first-time directors don’t move on to develop directing careers.” The guild’s research found that “the key driver behind that drop-off is the widespread and growing practice of employers giving ‘perk’ directing assignments to series insiders,” who are far less diverse as a group than non-affiliated directors, and who have infrequently gone on to have a career in directing.
Ranking the hiring records of the TV industry’s top eight employers – which oversaw the production of 71% of the episodes covered in its report – the DGA found that Disney/ABC companies, as was also the case last year, had the highest combined percentage of women and minority directors – 57.7%. HBO came in second , followed by Twentieth Century Fox companies ; Netflix ; Warner Bros. companies ; NBC Universal companies ; CBS companies and Sony .
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