Where are the women in Hollywood?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Are women finally breaking through off screen in the film industry? A year on from the Harvey Weinstein scandal, why aren't there more female movie directors at the Oscars?
Regan Morris reports from a Hollywood still coming to terms with the #MeToo movement. She speaks to Leah Meyerhof, founder of Film Fatales - a movement that brings together female film and TV directors on the West Coast - as well as directors Alyssa Downs and Rijaa Nadeem.
Meanwhile Nithya Raman of the Time’s Up campaign against sexual harassment explains why they have launched the "4% Challenge" - named after the derisory number of top-grossing films directed by women - as well as a legal defence fund and a mentorship programme for women.
Plus actors Armie Hammer and Felicity Jones talk about a forthcoming movie about the pioneering Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, being directed by Mimi Leder.
(Picture: The 22 Oscars won by the Lord of The Rings ; Credit: Dean Treml/AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:32.8 | Welcome to Business Daily. I'm Regan Morris and today we're in Hollywood, talking about what's changed |
| 0:39.1 | and what hasn't since the rise of the Me Too movement and the downfall of powerful men like Harvey Weinstein. |
| 0:46.4 | Hollywood is a giant ship and it is slow to turn. We've been celebrating male mediocrity for years, You know what I mean? So, hey, we know we've |
| 0:57.5 | made it if we celebrate female mediocrity and people of color mediocrity Hollywood and here are the all-male nominees. |
| 1:17.2 | That was Natalie Portman a year ago, |
| 1:19.8 | famously introducing the best director nominees at the Golden Globe Awards. |
| 1:23.7 | Despite all the good intentions and a lot of talk in Hollywood about a new era for women, |
| 1:28.8 | yet again, there were no women nominated for the best director prizes at any of the major award shows. |
| 1:35.9 | So where are all the women? |
| 1:41.7 | According to a University of Southern California study, of the top 100 grossing films of last year, only four were directed by women. |
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