ReFrame Stamp Recipients Hit 28 In 2021 Including Oscar Nominees ‘CODA’, ‘Power Of The Dog’, ‘West Side Story’
01.03.2022 - 19:39
/ deadline.com
A total of 28 of the most popular films of 2021 met the criteria to receive the ReFrame Stamp, the designation that confirms a movie production crew is gender-balanced. That is off one pic from last year’s 29 films, the most ever.
Despite the slight dip, organizers ReFrame and IMDbPro saw bigger gains inside the numbers. There were 31 films written by women in the top 100, a 47.6% compared with 2020. In 2021, nine films were written by women of color, up from four in 2020. They were offset by declines in film directed by women (14, down from 17 in 2020) and films directed by women of color (four, down from six) along with dips in productions using women cinematographers, composers and VFX supervisors.
In all, three of the 10 films nominated for the Oscar Best Picture — CODA, The Power of the Dog and West Side Story — received the ReFrame stamp. Outside the Top 100, at least 68 additional films released in 2021 met stamp criteria including The Lost Daughter, Passing and Zola.
(See the full list of recipients below and the full ReFrame 2021 report here.)
The year’s most popular films are selected based on IMDb global page views for narrative features. Of the 10 films with budgets of better than $50 million, three earned the stamp. According to the data, Disney released the highest percentage of Stamped films, with seven of its 15 releases in the Top 100 (46.7%). Netflix had the most entries with 28 films, and the most stamps earned of any single studio with 10 (35.7%).
“The ReFrame Stamp is a measure of who is being hired in key roles across a production, and reviewing each year’s most popular films through this lens gives us a snapshot of how much further we need to go to reach gender parity,” said Andria Wilson Mirza,