Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorThere are more films than ever before with amazing visual effects work, but a new study titled Invisible in Visual Effects finds that women’s credits in that area have remained flat over the past few years.The study from Dr.
Stacy L. Smith, the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and Women in Animation looked at 400 top-grossing films from 2016 to 2019, finding that women received 21.6% of VFX credits — a ratio of 3.6 men to every one woman working in VFX.
The percentage varied little over the period, with 20.8% of credits awarded to women in 2016 and 22.6% of credits in 2019.The low percentage of women in the field means they haven’t been represented in the effects awards landscape either — only one woman has won.
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