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In its 22nd year, the annual San Diego State University Celluloid Ceiling study found that women comprised 20% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 100 domestic grossing films released last year. That was up from 16% in 2018.
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Dr. Martha M. Lauzen‘s latest study, Thumbs Down 2018: Film Critics and Gender, and Why It Matters, conducted and published
Read moreDismal stats reported in this year’s edition of the annual It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World report, released on February 22
Read moreWomen working in the film industry are stuck. According to the latest Celluloid Ceiling study, women comprised only 16% of
Read moreMainstream media paid scant attention to Martha Lauzen’s “Thumbs Down: Representation of Women Film Critics in the Top 100 U.S. Daily Newspapers” when the report was published on July 28 by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ), although the posting was supported by simultaneous distribution to 500 entertainment media and movie industry A-listers. This latest study from the guru of women-in-Hollywood statistics and analysis indicates that 70 percent of movie reviews published in America’s top 100 daily newspapers are written by men, and that 47 percent of those publications — almost half — ran no reviews written by female critics.
Read moreFor over a decade, The Celluloid Ceiling study has tracked women’s representation as directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and
Read moreCelluloid Ceiling stats guru, Dr. Martha Lauzen’s latest study reveals that women made scant gains in Hollywood during 2008:
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