Lead: Men are represented seven times more in the nominations of filmmaking roles at the Academy Awards since 2000.
Excel Workbook link and explanation: my spreadsheet tracks the nominations and wins since the 2000s at the Academy Awards. The spreadsheet shows the nominations and wins in the categories of directing, editing and screenwriting. I separated the data into four sets: male nominations, female nominations, male wins and female wins.
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News story/study link and brief explanation: This article from Variety reports that there has been little improvement in the representation of women in non-acting awards at the Academy Awards. The article refers to a report done by the Women's Media Center that women make up 23% of this year's non-acting nominees, a 3% increase from last year. This article relates to my data since I intend to show the difference in nominations in filmmaking roles, and the ratio of female to male nominees.
I feel like this is a decent premise, however, given the fact that women only make up around 27% of producers, 21% of executive producers, 18% of editors, 13% of writers, 13% of directors, and 9% of cinematographers, it isn't suprising that there is that disparity, and 23 percent, although low, is around the percentage that women make up in the film industry for non-acting jobs. The way you've set up this update makes it sound more like a fifty/fifty split, which isn't true. I think the bigger problem would be that female filmmaker's and workers aren't being given the opportunity to work on large scale productions, which your data does not show.
ReplyDeleteYou have written a good lead and selected a helpful article to support your findings. It will be interesting to see how these numbers change following this years Academy Awards due to the increased pressure on the need for female representation within the nominees.
ReplyDeleteIt is not that shocking that this occurred back in the day, however; over time I feel like women are coming out and winning more awards. The article is a good read and makes you think about the award nominees differently. The lead you made was excellent and really eye-catching.
ReplyDeleteThe article definitely adds more to this data set. It's unfortunate, but sadly not too surprising that the film world is like this.
ReplyDeleteI like the direction you've taken your lead and your article definitely backs up your data so far. Although I find your topic interesting, I don't really find it surprising which is sad.
ReplyDeleteYour article definitely supports your lead. Although like how many others have mentioned it's sad to say that it isn't surprising. But a 3% increase is definitely better than none and hopefully in the upcoming years female non-actors in the film industry will be recognized more.
ReplyDeleteJamie: You'v picked an interesting data set, and you've got a good, crisp, easily-understandable lead with an article that supports it. Keep up the good work!
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