At the highest creative level of U.S. feature animation, women continue to be systemically excluded from any opportunities to direct animated features.
For the second year in a row – and the fifth time in nine years – every single major U.S. animation release in 2018 (for our purposes, that’s films screening in over 1,000 theaters at the same time) will be directed by a man.
In the decade so far (2010-2018), 103 out of 104 major animated releases will have had at least one male animation director, which means that men are involved in the direction of over 99% of all the animated films produced by the Hollywood entertainment conglomerates—Disney, Dreamworks, Universal, Warner Bros., Fox, et al. The lone feature among the 104 films that was directed solely by a women was Kung Fu Panda 2, helmed by Jennifer Yuh.
