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Jennifer Lawrence is speaking out about the pay gap for actresses
Lawrence’s outrage about being paid less than her male co-stars on “American Hustle”
In 2014, 85% of films had no female directors, 80% had no female writers, 33% had no female producers, 78% had no female editors and 92% had no female cinematographers
Women Comprise 7% of Directors on the Top 250 Films
At the turn of the 20th century, outside the home was considered to be the domain of men, while the home was considered the domain of women
Society viewed men as the income earners who supported the family and women as those who controlled the home’s finances in order to buy the goods the family needed to survive
With the development of leisure and consumer culture, women’s influence over the family’s finances extended to controlling disposable income
Theater owners used a variety of tactics to win the patronage and approval of middle-class female customers
Also, employing women at movie theaters followed logic that if theaters employed tasteful women, then the theater must be a safe place for women to patronize
In response to what women saw on movie screens, they cut their hair, raised their skirts, drove cars, smoked cigarettes, changing Americans’ ideas of what constituted acceptable female behavior
Most female directors started their careers in other areas of the film industry before making their directorial debut
Alice Guy Blaché began as a secretary and rose to studio head. She is credited as being the first female film director
Women were increasingly crowded out of directing positions in the 1920s and 1930s when the “professionalization” of film, as represented in the formation of bodies such as the Screen Writer’s Guild, “segregated the geography of Hollywood by sex.”
1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces
1991 The Prince of Tides
1983 Yentl
2013 The Bling Ring
2010 Somewhere
2006 Marie Antoinette
2003 Lost in Translation
1999 The Virgin Suicides
Lost in Translation
Won
Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Nominated
Oscar Best Picture
Best Director
Golden Globes
Won
Best Screenplay
Nominated
Best Director
2005 Bewitched
2000 Lucky Numbers
1998 You've Got Mail
1996 Michael
1994 Mixed Nuts
1993 Sleepless in Seattle
1992 This Is My Life
2009 It's Complicated
2006 The Holiday
2003 Something's Gotta Give
2000 What Women Want
1998 The Parent Trap
1996 The Preacher's Wife
1994 Renaissance Man
1992 A League of Their Own
1990 Awakenings
1988 Big
1986 Jumpin' Jack Flash
2013-2014 Orange Is the New Black (TV Series) (2 episodes)
2014 House of Cards (TV Series) (1 episode)
2011 The Beaver
1995 Home for the Holidays
1991 Little Man Tate
2013 recipient
Cecil B. DeMille Award
2014 Beyond the Lights
2008 The Secret Life of Bees
2005 Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) (1 episode)
2005 Girlfriends (TV Series) (2 episodes)
2003 The Bernie Mac Show (TV Series) (1 episode)
2000 Love & Basketball
2016 First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (filming)
2015 By the Sea
2014 Unbroken
2011 In the Land of Blood and Honey
2007 A Place in Time (Documentary)
2014 Selma
2012 Middle of Nowhere
2010 I Will Follow
Selma
Nominated
Motion Picture of the Year
2008 The Hurt Locker
2002 K-19: The Widowmaker
2000 The Weight of Water
1995 Strange Days
1991 Point Break
1989 Blue Steel
1987 Near Dark
1981 The Loveless
The Hurt Locker
WON
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Achievement in Directing
Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Best Achievement in Film Editing
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
