Total Women and Minority Directors in Hollywood ‘Plateaued’ in 2024, Study Finds

Despite some modest gains, Hollywood is still a boys club for directors, according to the latest report from USC Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative published on Wednesday.

The report found that, out of the 112 directors who were behind the top 100 movies of 2024, 13.4% of them (15 people) were women. That represented a slight uptick from 2023, when 12.1% of the directors behind the top flicks were women.

If you were not tracking this yourself, female directors were behind movies...