YOU HOLLYWOOD, ME MAD
The Guerrilla Girls for years have brought attention to sexism in the art world by simply calculating the discrepency in the percentages of men to women artists represented in galleries and museums. In recent years, this anonymous activist collective has turned their gaze towards Hollywood. This year they are vying for representation at the Oscars with a billboard on Sunset Boulevard. But their numbers always are more dangerous then their images. As they note:
Only 7% of 2005’s 200 top-grossing films were directed by women.
Only 3 women have ever been nominated for an Oscar for Direction (Lina Wertmuller (1976), Jane Campion (1982,) and Sofia Coppola (2003). None has won.
