Movies like films “Wicked“” The substance, “” A cool place: day one “and”Moana 2“It was not just dominating the box office. He provided soulful roles for women in some of the biggest releases of the year.
For the first time in recent history, the percentage of top -earning films characteristic of female hero equaled the percentage of films with Purush Nayak, according to a new report. Television and Center for Women Study in Film At San Diego State University. Of the 100 top domestic -grossing films in 2024, 42% were female heroes, which matched the percentage of films with the men’s hero. This was a dramatic growth from 2023, when only 28% of these films were told from a female point of view, while 62% reflected the perspective of a male hero.
“2024 recently offered one of the richest slates of films characterized by female hero in memory. These fictional women unleasterly snatched away personal relationships and discriminatory work environment. The founder of the Center and the author of the study, Martha Lauzen, said in a statement, “The Substance ‘films like” The Substance “worked hard against a culture, which considers women to be disposable.”
“The Substance,” in which an actress has replaced the fitness guru, which is removed because she is of the middle -aged, hit a raga for a reason in Hollywood. Women are less likely to play a role after entering their 40s, unlike men. The percentage of female characters fell from 30% to 16% to 35% in their 40s, while the percentage of male characters increased as they in their 30s (25%) to their 40s (31%) Go away. Only 26% of female characters were 40 and above the age of 40, while 55% of male characters were more than 40.
“If we limit the age of female characters on the screen, we limit the types of experiences and life, which we see them alive,” Lauzen argued. “Our movies to a large extent fail to take advantage of the depth of the character coming from the living experiences of women and when they are in their third Act, the dramatic pushing characters paired have to face.”
The study also found that last year 16% of films were dressed in 2023 above 9%. To determine its findings, the report focuses on the hero, from which the story has been told, and because it is only watching the top 100 films, a relatively small sample size, small ups and downs, dramatic forms Change the number from
The study examined the percentage for all speaking characters and major female characters of over 2,000 characters, which makes those results more stable and less susceptible to dramatic swings in any direction. The picture there was less bright. In 2024, the percentage of female characters in speaking roles rose only 2 percent to 37%, while the percentage of major female characters increased by one percentage points to 39%.
And men still got to talk more, last year 72% of films speaking roles featured more men than female characters. Only 21% of films had more female than male speaking characters.
In 2024, 67.3% major female characters were white (above 54.7%), 17.4% black (above 16.7%), 4.3% Latina (below 7.6%), 6.4% were Asian or Asian Americans (below bottom ( From below) 6.7%), 0.4%original American (below 0.6%), 0.4%MNA (below 0.9%) and 1.1%(with about 1.2%) were of many races and ethnicity.
Some of the biggest films of last year ended some gender conservatism. Of the 17% of the leading characters, 63% were men and 37% female. It was also more likely that a male character would be achieved. Basti percent of male characters with speaking roles, but only 38% female characters had an identityable job or business.
It makes a difference as to who is calling the shots on the film. In films with at least one female director and/or author, 81% of women in women were included. Especially in films with male directors and/or writers, women were responsible for 33% of the hero.
