Organizers of the annual ReFrame Report said Wednesday that 29 of the 100 most popular films of 2022 met the criteria to be awarded a ReFrame Stamp for gender-balanced productions, a list that includes Oscar Best Picture nominees like Sarah Polley’s Women Talking and The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once, as well as Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King and Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The ReFrame initiative, launched in 2017 by Sundance Institute, Women in Film and IMDbPro, aims to identify and reward features that hire women or other underrepresented individuals on at least 50% of key roles including writer, director, producer, lead, co-leads and department heads.
More points are awarded to productions that hire women of color in key positions, and to those with overall gender parity among their crews.
The report found that hiring levels for women in the top 100 productions (as determined by IMDb page views) continued on a flat trajectory in 2022 after seeing 66% growth from 2017 to 2018, and 35% growth from 2018 to 2019.
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