Wikimedia Commons/Hamnet movie Movie Gender equity in Hollywood declines: Fewer top 2025 films earn the ReFrame Stamp for gender-balanced hiring. Women & nonbinary directors & leads see a drop. April 8, 2026 AceShowbiz - Gender-Balanced Hiring has seen a decline among the 100 most popular films of 2025, according to the latest report from ReFrame, the initiative created by Sundance Institute and WIF (formerly Women in Film, Los Angeles) in collaboration with IMDbPro.