On Sunday night time, the Academy Awards will confer their first trophy to a casting director. The award for Greatest Casting is the primary new class to be added to the Oscars in 24 years — and it’s doing its half to treatment the Oscars’s abysmal file on gender.
Because the Academy Awards began in 1929, 82.2 p.c of winners have been males, with girls making up simply 17.8 p.c. Time hasn’t helped even the break up out as a lot as you would possibly suppose. Of this 12 months’s nominated class, 67 p.c are males and 33 p.c are girls. Unbelievably, that is the very best proportion of feminine nominees on file, matching the high-water mark established in 2021.
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