While women talking to each other about something other than a man in movies was a good indicator of success last year, 2013 was not a stellar year for women directors. According to a story from Variety, only two of the top 100 box office movies from 2013 were directed by women: Disney’s animated Frozen (co-directed by jennifer Lee) and the remake of Carrie directed by Kimberly Peirce.
Geek girl blog The Mary Sue pointed out that most of the top-grossing films by women (i.e. 8 of the top 10) were independent films.
One of the commentators at Variety suggested that the reason there were so few women directors at the top in Hollywood was because, “Maybe there aren’t that many who want to direct film… If there aren’t women directors…then there aren’t women directors.”
What do you think?