2. Influential women in film• Kathryn Bigelow
Well known director, screenwriter and producer. Kathryn Bigelow is
the only female director to ever win an Academy Award for 2008’s
The Hurt Locker, her career in film has been going on for 20years and
she has produced many successful films in the industry. One of her
successes is Point break (1991) and continuing with the last year’s
Zero Dark Thirty.
• Ava Duvernay
• Ava Duvernay is a director, screenwriter and marketer in the film
industry. Unfortunately she failed to score an Oscar nomination as
there was some controversy in the year when screenplay for her
second directional feature Middle of Nowhere. She has made history
as the first African-American female director to win the best director
award at the 2012 Sundance Festival.
• Diablo Cody
• Diablo Cody is a screenwriter, director and also a producer. Shooting
to fame and an Academy Award for her entrance script Juno. Diablo
Cody has continued an energy in Hollywood over the past six years
of her career where she has produced many popular Showtime
series. These include The United States of Tara, writing and
producing the feature films Jenifer’s Body and Young Adult and
making her directorial debut with the film Paradise released this
year.
• Kathleen Kennedy
• Kathleen is a well-known female producer who has 60 films that had
a major accomplishment with the public. These films known as
Raiders of the Last Ark and E.T as a result her winning line has
continued with such distinguished films as the Jurassic Park Trilogy
and The Sixth Sense. She has taken major projects and is was set to
produce Star Wars: Episode VII.
3. 30.8% 28.8% 26.2% 10.7%
Of speaking
characters are
women
of women who wore
sexually revealing
clothes
As opposed to 7.0% of
men.
Of women actors get
partially naked
While 9.4% of men do
of movies featured a
balanced cast where
half of the characters
are female.
Average ratio
of male actors
to female
actors is
2.25:1
