The annual report from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative also found that half of the women over 45 who led or co-led a movie were women of color.
“The progress for women of color in leading roles is encouraging,” AI2 founder Stacy L. Smith said in a statement. “Girls and women of color are 20% of the U.S. population, but the film industry has not ensured that this is what audiences see on screen. With effort and accountability, this threshold is one that not only can be achieved but easily surpassed.”
Yet representation in lead roles overall for both women and people of color stayed statistically flat and disproportionate to the real-life population . “The lack of progress for women and people of color in leading roles for yet another year is disappointing,” said Katherine L. Neff, the study’s lead author, in a statement.
Finally, AI2 examined how the major and mini-major distributors — Disney, Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. — fared when it came to releasing movies starring women or people from historically excluded races and ethnicities. Three of the four films in Lionsgate’s 2022 slate were led or co-led by female-identified characters , while Disney, Paramount, Sony and Warners tied for share of releases starring people of color , with the other two studios close behind.
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