Three-quarters of the movies that won an Academy Award in 2020 had a male lead actor. In 2013, the share stood at ** percent. Nearly **percent of film writers in the U.S. were white in 2021.
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University of California (Social Sciences). (March 24, 2022). Distribution of Academy Award-winning movies in the United States from 2011 to 2020, by lead actor gender [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 25, 2026, from /statistics/692532/oscar-winning-films-actor-gender/
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