Women Directors Make Up 8% of This Year’s 100 Top-Grossing Filmmakers in a Steep Drop From 2024, Study Shows

A new study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative shows nine women directors among the 100 top-grossing films of 2025, ...

Films Directed by Women Drop to Seven-Year Low in 2025, Study Finds

The annual Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report out of USC finds that only nine women directors worked on the 100 ...
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Female directors still underrepresented in Italian cinema

Despite growing attention to gender equality, women remain significantly underrepresented behind the camera in Italian cinema ...

Progress for women movie directors stalled in 2025

Only 8% of directors with movies in theaters in 2025 were women. That news comes from an annual study from USC Annenberg. It reveals a reversal of trends that were not great to begin with; in 2020, ...

Women still face steep challenges securing top movie jobs

A San Diego State University report found that women made up 23% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, ...

Top-Grossing Films Directed By Women Take Steep Drop In 2025, Report Finds

A new study finds just nine women directors helmed top-grossing films at the domestic box office in 2025. According to the ...

Female directors see 'complete reversal' of progress as 2025 marks 5% drop in film work, study finds

Female directors suffered a "complete reversal of any progress" in 2025, according to a new study out of USC's Annenberg ...

Chloé Zhao, Amanda Seyfried and Mona Fastvold on Spotlighting Female Perspectives on Film

Hamnet's' Chloé Zhao and 'The Testament of Ann Lee's' Amanda Seyfried and Mona Fastvold join Kering in Palm Springs for Women ...
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Female Directors Were Shut Out From Directing Summer Blockbusters: ‘The U.S. Senate is More Progressive Than Hollywood’ (Guest Column)

Films by male directors ruled the box office this summer. The boys-only cadre of helmers included Gareth Edwards (“Jurassic World: Rebirth”), James Gunn (“Superman”), Joseph Kosinski (“F1”), and Len ...
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A look at four female directors making waves in Arab cinema

Arab female film directors have helped change the landscape of Arab cinema in recent years, presenting stories that haven't been told before and claiming space in an industry in a region that rarely ...