Those doing the hiring used to be almost all men. In 1987, Dawn Steel became the president of Columbia Pictures, making her the first woman to run a major Hollywood studio. Since then, women have held power positions throughout the industry and two women now help run studios and others head up divisions.

Agnès Varda, the veteran French film director best known as the mother of the new wave, has made an impassioned plea to see more women celebrated across cinema.
Accepting a lifetime achievement award at the European film awards, Varda, 86, who has been an outspoken feminist throughout her six-decade career and created some of the most interesting female protagonists in 20th-century cinema,