Thread by @NorbertElekes

Female speaking time in Best Picture noms

8% - Bohemian Rhapsody
10% - BlacKkKlansman
12% - Green Book (winner)
18% - Vice
30% - Black Panther
36% - A Star Is Born
69% - The Favourite
90% - Roma

(Ceretai) #0urWorld #Oscars

A movie passes the Bechdel Test if:

1. it has at least two (named) women in it
2. who talk to each other
3. about something other than a man

About 40% of movies fail this test.

Bechdel Test for top-rated IMDb movies

❌ The Shawshank Redemption
❌ The Godfather I & II
☑️ The Dark Knight
❌ The Lord of the Rings 1-3
☑️ Pulp Fiction
☑️ Schindler’s List
❌ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
☑️ Inception
❌ Fight Club
❌ Forrest Gump
❌ Star Wars: Episode IV-VI

2/ Bechdel Test for top-rated IMDb movies

☑️ The Matrix
☑️ Goodfellas
❌ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
❌ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
☑️ Interstellar
❌ City of God
☑️ Spirited Away
❌ The Usual Suspects
❌ Se7en
☑️ Leon: The Professional
☑️ The Silence of the Lambs

Total speaking time in Best Picture noms

Women: 2 hours 9 minutes
Men: 5 hours 17 minutes

Put simply, female speaking time is 29%

Female characters in movies worldwide

UK: 38%
Brazil: 37%
Germany: 35%
China: 35%
Australia: 30%
US: 29%
Japan: 27%
India: 25%

(GDI) #0urWorld #Film

Representation of women in the Top 100 grossing movies of 2018

Cinematographers: 3%
Directors: 4%
Editors: 14%
Writers: 15%
Producers: 18%
Exec producers: 18%

(CSWTF) #0urWorld #Film

US population vs. representation in movies

Women: 51% - 32%
Black: 13% - 12%
Latino: 18% - 6%
Asian: 6% - 5%
LGBT: 4% - <1%

(USCA) #0urWorld #Diversity

Movies that pass the Bechdel Test

23% of Steven Spielberg movies
29% of Martin Scorsese
33% of Christopher Nolan
33% of Guillermo del Toro
37% of David Fincher
60% of Ridley Scott
73% of Tim Burton
87% of Quentin Tarantino

(ThePudding) #Hollywood