Like ‘Barbie’, the biggest box office winners of 2023 were driven by women and people of colour. — Warner Bros Pictures/TNS
Barbie may have painted the box office pink last year, but the overall picture for women in Hollywood could leave you feeling blue.
Women and people of colour drove the biggest box office winners of 2023 even as they continued to remain underrepresented in the film industry, according to the latest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report released recently. Despite last summer’s Barbie juggernaut, women’s representation among screenwriters, lead actors and overall cast dropped in 2023, with the share of women in the directing chair showing virtually no progress from the previous year.
