Three-quarters of the movies that won an Academy Award in 2020 had a male lead actor. In 2013, the share stood at 50 percent. Nearly 68 percent of film writers in the U.S. were white in 2021.
Distribution of Academy Award-winning movies in the United States from 2011 to 2020, by lead actor gender
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