Women Directors Make Up 8% of This Year’s 100 Top-Grossing Filmmakers in a Steep Drop From 2024, Study Shows

A new study describes 2025 as a “Great Recession” for women directors, with just 9 women directors attached to the 100 top-grossing films at the U.S. box office. According to the latest report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, of the 111 directors who helmed those films, 9 of them were women: Nisha Ganatra (“Freakier […]