From Cate Blanchett as a monstrous maestro to Michelle Yeoh's battle through the multiverse, women's stories are front and center in nearly every big category at this year's Oscars. But Hollywood is far from a place of gender parity
In the supporting actress race, Angela Bassett is in the running for playing Queen Ramonda in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," a Marvel superhero flick that put female warriors at the forefront."Women are making progress in certain areas on screen," said UCLA sociologist Darnell Hunt, co-author of an annual Hollywood diversity report. But, Hunt added, they "have a long way to go, particularly behind the scenes.
Women accounted for 47.2% of leading roles in the top theatrical and streaming films in 2021, UCLA researchers found. That was an increase from 32.9% in 2017.Michelle Yeoh attends the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 26, 2023. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci/But among directors - the most powerful role on a movie set - just 21.8% were women in 2021. It was 12.6% in 2017.
To promote gender parity, advocates created the ReFrame stamp, a certification that productions could use to show that they hired women in at least half of the key roles on screen and behind the camera."Tar" director Todd Field said he hoped Hollywood was moving beyond past attitudes about gender. A decade ago, he said he was told he could get a bigger budget for a film he was pitching if it starred a man.
"The idea that we're sort of leaving this area behind and able to work with a much more broad view of humanity, I think is a healthy thing," he added.
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