The Top Movies Of The Last Four Years Star Women

Women have dominated the field workplace for the final 4 years in a row. And in 2016, each the primary and the second highest-grossing movies — Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Finding Dory — heart on ladies.

It’s a very monumental achievement, given the variety of movies that characteristic feminine protagonists. According to analysis from San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, male characters have been, on common, 84% of protagonists in top-grossing motion pictures in 2013, 2014, and 2015. And but, in every of these years, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in each *The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 and Catching Fire and Rey (Daisy Ridley) in Star Wars: The Force Awakens carried their movies to the highest of the home field workplace.

The same gender imbalance certainly exists in 2016, for which there’s not but knowledge, however Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) in Finding Dory and Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story nonetheless triumphed — they each bested Captain America himself.

Notably, nonetheless, Katniss, Rey, and Jyn are all white ladies and Dory is a fish voiced by a white girl. Around 75% of feminine characters in top-grossing movies are white.

Still, these previous 4 years show folks demonstrably go see motion pictures about ladies! Here’s to extra (and extra numerous!) feminine protagonists in 2017 and past.

(*American Sniper is technically the top grossing domestic release of 2014, nevertheless it performed in simply four theaters in 2014 and opened vast on Jan. 16, 2015.)