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Greta Gerwig stunned Hollywood with her extraordinary success in 2023, directing Barbie to nearly $1.5 billion in global box office earnings. This Mattel-inspired feature film from Warner Bros. also made history as the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman, according to Billboard.
Despite these incredible achievements, women directors remain a rarity in the film industry. Only 16% of the top 250 highest-grossing movies in the US in 2023 were directed by women, as revealed in a recent study by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. This percentage falls to just 14% in the top 100.
“Greta Gerwig’s success is a rare exception that masks the ongoing gender inequality in mainstream filmmaking,” noted Martha Lauzen, the center’s founder and executive director.
Shockingly, female involvement behind the scenes in the American film industry actually decreased in 2023, with just 22% of directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers on the top 250 films being women. This decline is documented in The Celluloid Ceiling, which has monitored women’s employment in the top 250 films for 26 years.
These sobering statistics underscore the prevalence of male dominance in Hollywood, as evidenced by the overwhelming majority of films with no women directors or cinematographers, and a minimal number of movies employing ten or more women in key behind-the-scenes roles.