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Scientific analysis reveals there's a gender gap in screen time for this year's Oscar nominees

Inspired by the baseball statistics fun of Moneyball, film critic Kevin B. Lee decided to analyze the mechanics of film with the same scientific lens. Lee turned to the Cinemetrics website—which holds statistics for more than 14,000 films—to help him quantify Oscar-nominated performances. What he found was fairly disturbing. In a New York Times article published today Lee revealed there is a distinct gender gap when it comes to the amount of time Oscar nominees spend on-screen.

This year’s Oscar nominated male leads averaged 85 minutes of screen time, while female leads averaged only 57 minutes. That means audiences spent an average of 28 extra minutes watching performers like Matthew McConaughey and Leonardo DiCaprio than they did with Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. (This year’s biggest outlier is Sandra Bullock who received a whopping 87 percent of  Gravity’s screen time, thus making her the exception that proves the rule.) After factoring in supporting nominees in both categories, male actors averaged 59 minutes while women averaged 42. And it turns out the disparity was even worse last year when nominated male leads averaged 100 minutes of screen time compared to female leads’ 49 minutes. 

David Bordwell, a film historian, theorizes that genre is likely responsible for that gender gap. Summarizing Bordwell’s theory, Lee writes, “Male stars are typically the protagonists in action or goal-oriented narratives that require the viewer to follow the story through the lead’s experiences. Female stars are more typically cast in melodramas that require the lead to serve as a hub connecting different characters and subplots.” So even when women hold leading roles, they are not the same types of central roles men receive (or perhaps the Academy simply does not praise the truly female-dominated films that do exist). It’s an empirical finding that Olivia Wilde has also expressed recently. After a gender-swapped reading of American Pie made her male co-stars aware of how boring many female roles are, Wilde answered bluntly, “Welcome to our world!” 

Perhaps even more concerning, Lee’s article reveals that many might not be aware of the gender gap even when they’re watching it. For example, Jay Cassidy—who was part of American Hustle’s editing team—guessed there wasn’t much of a difference between screen time for the two nominated leads of his film. In reality, however, Christian Bale received 60 minutes of screen time while Amy Adams received 46. And while that 14-minute difference might not seem particularly substantial, consider that Judi Dench won a Supporting Actress Oscar for eight minutes of Shakespeare In Loveand Anthony Hopkins was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for a total of 18 minutes inThe Silence Of The Lambs; 10 minutes can, in fact, considerably impact an actor’s performance.

Lee’s research is part of a growing awareness of gender inequality in media. Reports from the Center For The Study Of Women In Television And Film and The Women’s Media Center have helped reveal a myriad of statistical gender inequalities (for example, there are fewer women employed in film production today than there were in 1998 and only 28.4 percent of speaking roles in the top 100 films of 2012 went to women). These studies, along with Lee’s findings, will hopefully be enough to prove once and for all that gender inequality is a very real problem and allow advocates to move on to figuring out how to fix it.

Indeed, many in Hollywood are already doing just that. Will Ferrell recently launched a female-driven production company with the explicit mission of creating female-led film and television projects. Geena Davis has also become an outspoken advocate for women in media. Her Institute On Gender In Media seeks to study inequality, while her brilliant essay “Two Easy Steps To Make Hollywood Less Sexist” offers simple solutions to fix the problem. 

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Tagged!

The Rules: 

Always Post The Rules

Answer the questions the person tagged you in and write 11 new ones

Tag 11 new people to the post

Let them know you tagged them

The questions I was asked:

1. If there was any place in the world you could be right now, where would it be? 

I will never not answer Canada to this question. Although lately the Teen Wolf set kind of warmed itself in this equation too.

2. What is your dream job?

I would love to become a Costume Designer, preferably for TV or Cinema (I'm sadly not too fond of theatre, I know, my loss)

3. What do you wish for in the future?

I wish to finally reach a point where I can fully accept myself. I know it sounds absolutely selfish, but I'm quite convinced that what I feel towards myself at this particular moment can't really help me achieve anything for myself or for others.

4. What was the first fandom you were ever introduced to?

Harry Potter. Definitely Harry Potter, which was also the first one I got truly involved in (I used to write Drarry fanfic *laughs at self*).

5. Favourite animal?

I absolutely adore cats, but I also really really really like butterflies (thank you Loveless).

6. What would you do if you only had 24 hours to live?

Let's be real, I would probably waste them because I'm sad like that. Honestly, though, I have no idea! It's like when you want to buy a lot of stuff but then people ask you what you want to be given for Christmas and suddenly your brain goes completely blank.

7. If the world was to end, what do you think would be the cause?

I'm going with pollution. I am 100% sure the cause for the End of The World is going to be mankind. Or a big fucking asteroing and CRASH!

8. What’s a possession that you treasure, and what’s the reason behind why it means so much to you?

It's a necklace that my mom gave to me. It's a little peculiar bell, it's called Angel's Bell and they say that everytime it makes a noise, your angel is there to protect you. I used to joke with a friend that my angel was Balthazar and that everytime I shake it he hears Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On, but really I feel safe when I have it.

9. Favourite movie as a kid?

I used to absolutely love Disney's Sleeping Beauty because I didn't have many friends and my mom always said that is was so smart and my sister was always the pretty one, so I wished to be pretty like her, pretty enough for a prince to want to save me. Now I'm all about Peter Pan, might be because of Jeremy Sumpter...........

10. Band/Musician that you would kill to see?

I always wanted to see My Chemical Romance, but now that they're split up I'd love to see Mumford & Sons.

11. Something you’re looking forward to in the future?

If we're talking long-term, the day I finally start living in Vancouver. Short-term I shall say when I finally meet my best friend again that I haven't seen in months because she had to move for university.

And these are for you!

1. What did you want to become when you were young? Is it different from now? If so, how?

2. Is there a song that you listened to a long time ago but could still listen to any moment?

3. What is something that people know you by (a nickname or an adjective they always use when they talk about you)?

4. What was your favourite game as a child?

5. Have you ever wished that you could go back and change something you did/didn't do?

6. Would you forgive someone that's hurt you really badly if they sincerely apologised? 

7. Do you have a NOtp? If so, what is it?

8. If you could be a character in any movie/book/TV show, which one would it be? And what would your character be like/role be?

9. Is there any celebrity you would sell a kidney to be friends with?

10. What is something people who know you would never assume you would do/like?

11. Would you give up Tumblr if that meant getting shit done (homework, ambitions, anything you don't do now because you've been sucked in by this website)?

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zoe i hate you

it is now 2:15am and i want to draw modern greek deities clothes

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Share 10 facts about yourself and then pass this on to your ten favorite followers. :)

Heck yeah, your blog is awesome too! Now, let’s get down to business…

I really like to go backpacking and sitting by rivers and just being outdoors. 

My music taste could be described as preppy Cape Cod teenager discovers rap music and feminist pop one summer.

I’m an Alpha Chi Sigma brother.

I really like notebooks even though I never write more than two pages in most of them.

If Dr. Pepper went out of business, I would be emotionally distraught.

I would eat anything if it had caramel on it.

If a song has clapping in it, then I automatically like it.

I’m a 3rd Year Chemical Engineering student at Georgia Tech.

I am an Eagle Scout and was involved in Scouting for 11 years.

A pretentious fact about me is that I really like John Steinbeck.

I’m going to tag my ten favorite blogs here as more of a “Hey, I think you’re really cool" and not “Hey, do this" because I personally just like lists. 

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