In films with at least one woman director and/or writer, females comprised 81% of protagonists. In films with exclusively male directors and/or writers, females accounted for 33% of protagonists.

The study also found that 16% of films last year featured ensembles, up from 9% in 2023. To determine its findings, the report focused on protagonists from whose perspective the story is told, and ...

The data examined 350 films, released from January 2014 to December 2017, across all budgets. Of the films examined, 105 are categorized as female-led and 245 are categorized as male-led.

Movies like “Wicked," “Inside Out 2" and “The Substance” lifted Hollywood's theatrical releases to gender parity in leading roles in 2024.

Regarding race and ethnicity, Black females comprised 15.3% of all female characters in speaking roles in 2023, down from 18% in 2022. The percentage of Latina characters decreased from 6.9% to 6. ...

It’s about time. In 2024 the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists matched the percentage of films with male protagonists for the first time in recent history. According ...

Regarding race and ethnicity, Black females comprised 15.3% of all female characters in speaking roles in 2023 in the top-grossing films, down from 18% in 2022.

However, 66.4% of the women made just one film, against 62.7% for men, and when it came to making multiple films, just 22 women, or 3.5% of the total, had made at least five films, against 138 men.

For the first time in recent history, the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists equaled the percentage of films with male protagonists, according to a pair of annual ...