Inequality in 1,300 Popular Films - USC Annenberg School ...

1 Inequality in 1,300 Popular Films :Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBTQ & Disability from 2007 to 2019 Annenberg Inclusion Initiative September 2020 Prevalence of girls and women as speaking characters across 1,300 Films , in percentagesOf the 100 top Films in of malesto femalesTotal number ofspeakingcharactersINEQUALITY IN , Popular FILMSANNENBERG INCLUSION INITIATIVEUSC ANNENBERG43 NEW YEAR, NO progress FOR GIRLS & WOMEN ON SCREENPROGRESS TOWARD PARITY FOR GIRLS & WOMEN AS LEADS : 157,629 Percentage of 1,300 Films withBalanced Casts12%Depicted a Girl or Woman as a Lead or Co Lead39 Films in 2018 and 20 in 2007 depicted a girl or woman as a lead or co of those Leads and Co Leads*.

2 173 Female actors were from underrepresented racial / ethnic groupsFemale actors were at least 45 years of age or GIRLS & WOMEN, NOT ALL GENRES ARE CREATED EQUAL ACTION AND OR *Excludes Films w/ensemble casts% OF GIRLS & WOMEN AS SPEAKING CHARACTERS DR. STACY L. SMITH PAGE 34 Inclusionists% OF GIRLS & WOMEN AS SPEAKING CHARACTERS% OF GIRLS & WOMEN AS SPEAKING CHARACTERSWHITEUNDERREPRESENTEDof the 100 top Films of the 61 LGBTQ characters in NO LGBTQCHARACTERS789477%23%HAD NO FEMALE IDENTIFIED LGBTQ OF RACIAL ETHNIC GROUPS ON SCREEN IN HISPANIC LATINO.

3 %BLACK . %OTHER . %ASIAN . %15films had NO Black or African American speaking characters Films had NO Asian speaking charactersfilms had NO Hispanic/Latino speaking characters44percentage of under-represented characters:*The percentage of White characters decreased percentage points since 2007. There has been no significant increase in the percentage of characters from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups in the same time . %LGBTQ CHARACTERS ARE LEFT BEHIND IN FILM7 LESBIANBISEXUALTRANSGENDER19124936150650 GAY 916 06 DR.

4 STACY L. SMITH PAGE 1733 081045 33Of 26,618 speaking characters across 600 of Films with underrepresented leads or co leads by year 13171291618131421 12 27 13 32 ALL TIME HIGH FOR UNDERREPRESENTED CHARACTERS AT THE CENTER OF STORYTELLING445534334211117 ALLURLEADSFEMALEURLEADSOVERALL17%5%All 4 transgender characters appearing in top Films were inconsequential to the story, and had a total screentime of 2 of all speaking characters by racial/ethnic groupCHARACTERS WITH DISABILITY FACE A DEFICIT ON SCREEN IN FILMof all speaking characters were depicted with a *COMMUNICATIVE*PHYSICAL*65%*Based on Census domains DR.

5 STACY L. SMITH PAGE Gina Prince-Bythewood*Lilly WachowskiWOMEN DIRECTORS ACROSS , TOP GROSSING Films Angelina JolieAnna FoersterAva DuVernay*+Betty ThomasBr enda ChapmanCatherine Hardwicke+Diane EnglishElizabeth Allen RosenbaumElizabeth BanksJennifer FlackettJennifer Lee+Jessie NelsonJulie Anne Robinson+Julie TaymorKathryn Bigel owKimberly PeirceKirst en SheridanLana Wachowski+THERE WERE INDIVIDUALWOMANDIRECTORSBETWEEN2007 & 2019 57 Loveleen Tandan*Nancy Meyer s+Niki CaroNora EphronPhyllida LloydPatricia Riggen*Jodie FosterJennifer Yuh Nelson*+Patty JenkinsAnne Fletcher+Hallie Meyers-ShyerGreta

6 Gerwig+Lucia Aniello*=underrepresented woman director+=woman has worked more than onceAbby KohnKay CannonAnna BodenGail MancusoJill CultonKasi Lemmons*Lorene ScafariaMarielle HellerOlivia WildeRoxann Dawson*Melina Matsoukas*Mimi Leder48movies did not includeany characters with did not include any girls or women with WhiteSam Tayl or -JohnsonSanaa Hamri*Shari Springer BermanSharon MaguireThea SharrockSarah SmithTrish SieStacy TitleStella Meghie*Susanna FogelTina Gordon* WOMEN PRODUCERS WOMEN COMPOSERS WOMEN WRITERS WOMEN DIRECTORSWOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA IN DIRECTORSWRITERSPRODUCERSCOMPOSERSA cross 1,518 content AND COMPOSERS: FEW WOMEN FILL THESE ROLES 10810941 10911181 WOMEN1,44770 OUT OFDIRECTORSWOMEN1,44325 OUT OFCOMPOSERS DR.

7 STACY L. SMITH PAGE 1125109311212 1166OR BLACK OR AFRICANAMERICAN DIRECTORSOR HISPANIC LATINO DIRECTORS OR ASIAN OR ASIAN AMERICAN DIRECTORS MENWOMEN808 Across 1,300 Films and 1,447 ARE STILL PRIMARILY WHITE AND MALEMENWOMEN503 MENWOMEN453 Across 1,300 Films the demographic breakdown of casting CASTING DIRECTORS ARE WHITE WOMEN %AREWHITEWOMEN . %AREUNDERREPRESENTEDMEN . %AREUNDERREPRESENTEDWOMEN . %AREWHITEMEN DR. STACY L. SMITH PAGE Hispanic/LatinaBlack/AfricanAmericanAmer ican Indian/Alasakan NativeMiddle Eastern/North AfricanMultiracial/Multiethnic7133755929 799 AsianNative Hawaiian/Pacific Islander45 WhiteERASURE OF GIRLS AND WOMEN IN TOP GROSSING FILMSOf the 100 top Films in 2019.

8 The number missing girls and women on screen that STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS TO FOSTER SYSTEMIC CHANGECOMPANY WIDE INCLUSION POLICIESSUPPORT NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TRAINING NEW FILMMAKERSTRANSPARENT INTERVIEWING & HIRING PRACTICESSET TARGET INCLUSION GOALSCREATE INCLUSIVECONSIDERATIONLISTSSHAREHOLDERAC TIVISMINCLUSIONRIDERCOLLECTIVE ACTIONF emale Leads & Co LeadsFemale Speaking CharactersGender Proportional RepresentationWomen DirectorsWomen WritersWomen ProducersUnderrepresented Leads & Co Leads*Underrepresented Female Leads & Co Leads*Underrepresented Speaking CharactersProportional Rep.

9 Of Underrepresented CharactersUnderrepresented DirectorsUnderrepresented WritersUnderrepresented ProducersLGBTQ Leads & Co LeadsLGBTQ Speaking CharactersLGBTQ Proportional RepresentationLeads & Co Leads w/a DisabilitySpeaking Characters w/a DisabilityProportional Rep. of Characters w/a Disability # Where Company Leads% Where Company Leads# of FilmsWALT DISNEY44%34%11%17%28%27%22%0%31%0%06%10% 01%022%2%000%9 TH C. FOX40%30%10%8%18%21%30%10%28%0%25%9%16%0 1%040%2%015%10 UNIVERSALWARNER PICTURES46%37. 4%8%14%13%26%31%31%32%23%21%3%24%01%08%2 %0211%13 INCLUSION INDICATORI nclusion indicators by company for 201950%35%11%25%30%31%44.

10 4% DR. STACY L. SMITH PAGE 44% 4% AND PARAMOUNT LEAD ACROSS INCLUSION INDICATORS IN Films *For animated Films , the race/ethnicity of the actor was used. For leads and co leads with a disability, this was assessed as an attribute that was present or absent for the character and does not reflect whether the disability was the focus of the story. The company with the highest percentage on an indicator was credited as leading on that metric. Numbers were rounded to a whole number, although when companies tied, we looked to the 10th decimal place to determine the leader.