Female director numbers 'reach an all-time high'
Female director numbers reached an all-time high in Hollywood in 2020. The Celluloid Ceiling, which has tracked employment trends in the film industry for the last 23 years, reports that for the second consecutive year, there are more women directing top-grossing movies than ever before. Women filmmakers accounted for 16 percent of directors working on the top 100 grossing films in 2020, according to the report, which confirmed a rise from 12 percent in 2019 and just four percent in 2018. Dr. Martha Lauzen, the executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at S...