The Women’s Media Center (co-founded by two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda) recently reported that in the past decade, women have received only 19 percent of all non-acting Oscar nominations. This year in cinematogra-phy, directing and editing, only one woman made the cut
Women, of course, always make up 50 percent of the act-ing nominees, but they’ve received only 19 percent of the non-acting nominations over the past decade, according to a report by the Women’s Media Center released last week. Only 12 films directed by women have been nom-inated for best picture, ever. That’s 2.3 percent of all best picture nominees. Women have been more successful in technical categories such as costume design, but no wom-an has ever been nominated for best cinematography.
According to The Women’s Media Center, at this year’s Oscars, women only represent 22 percent of non-acting nominees, which includes producers, writers, directors, and cinematographers.
A recent study by the Women’s Media Center found that women have scored only 19 percent of all non-acting nom-inations over the past 10 years.
The lack of diversity in Hollywood can be attributed to a range of systemic problems within the Hollywood studio system, and statistics from the Women’s Media Center add to the evidence that it is time for the industry to make changes.
Compiling data from the last 10 years, the Women’s Me-dia Center found that women represent only 19 percent of non-acting nominations.
“Women in film—and especially women of color—continue to face discriminatory hurdles,” Jane Fonda, co-founder and co-chair of the Women’s Media Center, said on Thursday. “Hollywood is still an all-boys’ club.
“There is a clear connection between the low num-bers of women hired for behind-the-scenes jobs in film and women’s low representation among Oscar nomi-nees,” WMC president, Julie Burton, said in a statement accompanying the release of the findings. “If they’re not hired in these non-acting categories, they’ll never have a chance to be recognized for their excellence.”
To bring attention to this form of violence and get peo-ple to take it seriously, writer Soraya Chemaly and ac-tress Ashley Judd created the Women’s Media Center Speech Project.
The dominance of men’s voices on women’s health issues also goes deeper than politics: a 2016 Women’s Media Center study found that most women’s health stories are written by men, who in turn quote mostly men.
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2012
- 2009















