EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute and WIF‘s ReFrame and WIF on Thursday released their 2025 ReFrame & WIF Oscars Voter Guide, the second year the groups have teamed to create a list of the awards season’s Academy Award-eligible women, non-binary and/or gender non-conforming, and trans people of all genders.
WIF has been running a gender equality campaign for the Oscars since 2019, and teamed with ReFrame to first launch the guide last year.
“Winning awards brings attention to excellent work and builds careers,” WIF CEO Kirsten Schaffer said. “Only 32% of Oscar nominations in 2024 went to women. The ReFrame & WIF Oscars Voter Guide brings attention to the hundreds of incredible women, nonbinary, and transgender people whose work is deserving of accolades, with the goal of achieving gender equality across the industry.”
See the list below or here.
The work to amplify women and gender diverse creatives, raise awareness of gender bias and promote equity in the industry has been ongoing for both organizations.
Last month, WIF and ReFrame joined with the Alliance of Women Film Composers and Film Fatales for Changing the Ratio, an event that brought together women and gender-diverse filmmakers from the categories with the poorest representation overall including directors, editors, composers, VFX supervisors and cinematographers.
ReFrame, which is behind the ReFrame stamp criteria that analyzes gender inclusion of U.S. narrative feature films, then reviewed 150 of the year’s top titles to determine the eligible nominees among them.
Here’s this year’s voting guide.
