Women in Filmmaking and Television
Women in Filmmaking
- Women were 16% of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, editors and cinematographers working on the top 250 highest grossing films in 2009 in the United States. This is a decline of 3 percentage points from 2001, but the same as 2008.1
- Women accounted for 7% of directors in 2009, a decrease of 2 percentage points from 2008. 2
- Only woman director, Kathryn Bigelow, has ever won an Oscar.3
Women in Television
- Women were 27% of all creators, executive producers, producers, writers, editors & directors of photography working on the 2005-2006 prime time scripted and unscripted television season.5
- Roughly 97% of television characters are heterosexual for the 2009-2010 television season on the five broadcast networks. 7
- Eighteen series regular characters identified as LGBT on broadcast television schedule, an increase of two from the previous year. 8
- Twenty-five series regular characters identified as LGBT on mainstream cable networks, a decrease from 32 the previous year.9
Sources
1 Martha M. Lauzen, The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2009 (2010).
2 Martha M. Lauzen, The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2009 (2010).
3 Reuters, "Bigelow wins best director Oscar for 'Hurt Locker'" (March 8, 2010).
4 Martha M. Lauzen, The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2009 (2010).
5 Martha M. Lauzen, Boxed In: Employment of Behind-the-Scenes Women in the 2009-10 Prime-time Television Season (2010).
6 Martha M. Lauzen, Boxed In: Employment of Behind-the-Scenes Women in the 2009-10 Prime-time Television Season (2010).
7 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, "Where We Are on TV: 2009-2010 Season" (2010).
8 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, "Where We Are on TV: 2009-2010 Season" (2010).
9 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, "Where We Are on TV: 2009-2010 Season" (2010).
UPDATED December 14, 2010
