When Hollywood Wasn’t So Male

Women never ruled Hollywood, but their creative talent, their ideas themselves, were once far more widely recognized and valued in the filmmaking community. Even now, when women are hired as executives more than they were in past decades, female filmmakers are still rare. What remains both sad and scandalous is that the cinematic contributions of half the population to our sense of ourselves, to our joy and entertainment, to the cathartic effects of art itself, are simply, mostly, not there. 

“It’s pretty simple,” a studio executive said when I asked her why no women were nominated for the two screenwriting awards, original and adaptation. “In order to be nominated, they’d have to get hired to write screenplays. They don’t get hired, so they can’t write screenplays that get produced. If they don’t write screenplays that get produced, they can’t get nominated. With directors and minorities it’s even worse—don’t get me started.”
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When Hollywood Wasn’t So Male | The Nation