Fails the Bechdel test

F1: The Movie

Name: F1: The Movie
Released: 2025

2025. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, written by Joseph Kosinski and Ehren Kruger.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
17 women characters. 12 of them speak.
No 2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other.
No 3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

Dubbed "the greatest that never was," Sonny Hayes was FORMULA 1's most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he's a nomadic racer-for-hire when he's approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes, owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He'll drive alongside Joshua Pearce, the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny's past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition--and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.

Released: 27 Jun 2025
Genres: Drama, Sport
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 7.6 / 10
Metascore: 68 / 100
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 34 wins & 134 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Sonny 306 lines, man
Joshua 162 lines, man
Kate 123 lines, woman
Ruben 121 lines, man
Telecast 89 lines
On Track 58 lines
Kaspar 50 lines, man
On Pit Wall 48 lines
In Sonny'S Car 44 lines, man
Nickleby 38 lines, man

Full cast, 80 people

Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes
Damson Idris as Joshua Pearce
Javier Bardem as Ruben Cervantes
Kerry Condon as Kate McKenna
Tobias Menzies as Peter Banning
Kim Bodnia as Kaspar Smolinski
Sarah Niles as Bernadette
Will Merrick as Nickleby
Joseph Balderrama as Fazio
Abdul Salis as Dodge
Callie Cooke as Jodie
Samson Kayo as Cash
Simon Kunz as Don Cavendish
Liz Kingsman as Lisbeth Bampton
Simone Ashley as Simone Ashley
Ramona Von Pusch as Liesl
Barney Smith as Kaspar's Son
Poppy Smith as Kaspar's Daughter
Luciano Bacheta as Luca Cortez
Rosie Dwyer as Pippa Leguin
Martin Brundle as Martin Brundle
David Croft as David Croft
Leigh Diffey as Daytona Race Broadcaster
Shea Whigham as Chip Hart
Patrick Long as Patrick Long
Will Redmond as Young Engineer
Michael Aaron Milligan as Strategy Director
Kyle Rankin as Cale Kelso
Rachel Walters as Molly, Sonny's Assistant
Steven Sean Garland as BMW Driver
Avis-Marie Barnes as Diner Waitress
Will Buxton as Will Buxton
Rachel Brookes as Rachel Brookes
Natalie Pinkham as Natalie Pinkham
Maria Thoma as Presenter
Tom Clarkson as Las Vegas Press Conference Presenter
Martin Savage as Las Vegas FIA Race Director
Zoe Oedekerk as Las Vegas Fun Loving Clubber
Tiësto as Tiësto
Elena Rivers as Supper Club Hostess
Nancy Carroll as Abu Dhabi Corporate Executive #1
Ankur Bahl as Abu Dhabi Corporate Executive #2
Mohammed Alkhoori as Abu Dhabi Trophy Presenter
Salwa Al Hadhrami as Abu Dhabi Podium Dignitary
Sal Lopez as Baja Old Timer
Darius De La Cruz as Baja Mechanic's Son
Gabriel Rivas as Baja Teenage Grandson
Alexander Albon as Alexander Albon
Fernando Alonso as Fernando Alonso
Oliver Bearman as Ollie Bearman
Valtteri Bottas as Valtteri Bottas
Franco Colapinto as Franco Colapinto
Nyck de Vries as Nyck de Vries
Jack Doohan as Jack Doohan
Pierre Gasly as Pierre Gasly
Zhou Guanyu as Zhou Guanyu
Lewis Hamilton as Lewis Hamilton
Nico Hülkenberg as Nicolas Hülkenberg
Liam Lawson as Liam Lawson
Charles Leclerc as Charles Leclerc
Kevin Magnussen as Kevin Magnussen
Lando Norris as Lando Norris
Esteban Ocon as Esteban Ocon
Sergio Pérez as Sergio Pérez
Oscar Piastri as Oscar Piastri
Daniel Ricciardo as Daniel Ricciardo
George Russell as George Russell
Carlos Sainz Jr. as Carlos Sainz
Logan Sargeant as Logan Sargeant
Lance Stroll as Lance Stroll
Yuki Tsunoda as Yuki Tsunoda
Zak Brown as Zak Brown
Max Verstappen as Max Verstappen
Christian Horner as Christian Horner
Guenther Steiner as Guenther Steiner
Lawrence Stroll as Lawrence Stroll
Frédéric Vasseur as Frédéric Vasseur
James Vowles as James Vowles
Toto Wolff as Toto Wolff
Stefano Domenicali as Stefano Domenicali

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 23% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 185

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	1	1
5 to 8	0	21
9 to 12	0	49
13 to 16	3	40
17 to 20	17	59
21 to 24	1	22
25 to 28	3	17
29 to 32	10	12
33 to 36	3	7
37 to 40	1	13
41 to 44	0	0
45 to 48	0	2
49 to 52	7	19
53 to 56	2	24
57 to 60	11	88
61 to 64	18	21
65 to 68	3	17
69 to 72	15	58
73 to 76	3	23
77 to 80	5	8
81 to 84	2	9
85 to 88	7	73
89 to 92	8	17
93 to 96	2	3
97 to 100	0	2
101 to 104	2	2
105 to 108	2	5
109 to 112	2	7
113 to 116	0	4
117 to 120	1	14
121 to 124	1	1
125 to 128	20	45
129 to 132	8	8
133 to 136	9	36
137 to 140	0	14
141 to 144	0	26
145 to 148	2	13
149 to 152	0	3
153 to 156	1	19
157 to 160	0	1
161 to 164	5	24
165 to 168	10	42
169 to 172	5	23
173 to 176	3	40
177 to 180	6	10
181 to 184	0	6
185 to 185	0	8

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 17 are women's.

199 lines from women, 956 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

17 women and 63 men in the cast. 12 women and 34 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 109 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 18% of the words (1,948), men 82% (9,095). Women have 17% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.

Exhibit D: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

131

Exhibit E: behind the camera

3 of the 20 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Joseph Kosinski (man)
Written by: Ehren Kruger (man)
Story by: Joseph Kosinski (man), Ehren Kruger (man)
Produced by: Lewis Hamilton (man), Joseph Kosinski (man), Chad Oman (man), Jerry Bruckheimer (man), Jeremy Kleiner (man), Brad Pitt (man) and 1 more
Shot by: Claudio Miranda (man)
Edited by: Stephen Mirrione (man), Patrick J. Smith (man)
Music by: Hans Zimmer (man)
Production design by: Mark Tildesley (man), Ben Munro (gender not listed)
Costumes by: Julian Day (man)
Cast by: Lucy Bevan (woman), Emily Brockmann (woman)