The 24th annual 'Celluloid Ceiling' report found just 12 percent of directors of 2021's top 100 films were women, down from 16 percent the year before.
Across key behind-the-scenes roles, women occupied 21 percent of those jobs among the top 100 films and 25 percent among the top 250, a slight increase from 2020’s 23 percent thanks to an increased proportion of women as producers and executive producers . On the other hand, the share of writers , editors and cinematographers remained flat.
Most of 2021’s films employed no more than four women in these positions, whereas 72 percent of the movies had at least 10 men in the jobs. Just 8 percent of the movies had that many women working in these key roles, but even fewer had as few as four men.
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