WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test
Ninety yearsβ worth of Best Picture winning films under the spotlight
Are Hollywood films ignoring women? As this is the 90th year of the Academy Awards - we find out how many βBest Pictureβ winners pass the Bechdel Test. This is a light-hearted way of challenging whether a film meets a low standard of female representation. They have to fulfil three criteria: are there at least two named female characters in the cast? Do those two women speak to each other? And do they have a conversation about something other than a man? In collaboration with the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs 100 Women team, we reveal the answer but also look at what other ways we could be assessing representation in film.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?