That fact makes it perhaps even more surprising that so many films still fail to pass this low bar. The test itself is an admittedly low bar - e.g., films can pass with a single line of dialogue. For context, the Bechdel Test - also known as the Bechdel-Wallace Test -originated with a 1985 cartoon by Alison Bechdel.
Of this set, 192 films pass the Bechdel test (60 percent), and 127 films (40 percent) do not. Of the 350 films in this dataset, 319 have Bechdel scores available on. More information can be found at 4īechdel test ratings taken from. Where Studio System has not received official press materials and there is no opening credit sequence where the leads are listed, Studio System relies on trailers or one-sheets to help determine the proper cast order. Studio System defines a “female lead” as a woman who is listed first in official press materials. In 2016, The Pudding published analysis on gender and dialogue, and in 2017, on films passing and failing the Bechdel test. UCLA annually puts out the Hollywood Diversity Report, which recently highlighted that “America’s increasingly diverse audiences prefer diverse film and television content.” In 2015, The Black List published research on the success of female-driven movies.
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Shri Narayanan and his Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have done work on diversity and dialogue in film. has scheduled its big-screen version of the hit 1980s NBC series CHiPs for August 11, 2017. Stacy Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative who have done extensive work showing inequality across films - both in front of and behind the camera. In 2014, FiveThirtyEight did analysis showing films passing the Bechdel test performed better than films that did not. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a project of Mount Saint Mary’s University, has done important work highlighting representation in children’s films - also showing that female led-films outperform male-led films. In 2017, CAA released data showing showing “diverse casting increases box office potential across all budgets.” 2
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