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Thank you for posting the full graphic with labels—I was a bit baffled at first.

It’s strange/interesting that The Hurt Locker, the only Oscar-winning film directed by a woman, who was also the only woman to win an Oscar for Best Director, is one of the ones with no significant dialogue spoken by female characters.

There are two possible morals one might draw (from what is, admittedly, a very small sample size): (1) that having a woman in charge doesn’t necessarily mean better representation of women lower down; and/or (2) that women directors are more likely to be taken seriously if they are perceived as telling “serious” stories, which is to say, men’s stories.