Passes the Bechdel test
Gravity
2013. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, written by Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
2 women characters. 3 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 1. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 0 out of 3.
The film
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.
- Released
- 04 Oct 2013
- Genres
- Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 7.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 96 / 100
- Awards
- Won 7 Oscars. 242 wins & 189 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Ryan 279 lines, woman
- Matt 187 lines, man
- Mission Control 44 lines, man
- Transmission 14 lines
- Shariff 12 lines, man
- Explorer Cap 11 lines, woman
- The Porthole- 7 lines, woman
- The Periscope- 4 lines
- Above Her- 2 lines, woman
- And- 2 lines, woman
Full cast, 7 people
- Sandra Bullock as Ryan Stone
- George Clooney as Matt Kowalski
- Ed Harris as Mission Control (voice)
- Orto Ignatiussen as Aningaaq (voice)
- Phaldut Sharma as Shariff (voice)
- Amy Warren as Explorer Captain (voice)
- Basher Savage as Russian Space Station Captain (voice)
Who talks, scene by scene
We couldn't read who says what in this film's script, so there's no dialogue chart for it yet.
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
RYAN: Explorer, engage arm and pivot to cargo bay. EXPLORER CAP: Standby for arm maneuver.
RYAN: Assuming it works, it's just for hospital use. This one is a prototype. EXPLORER CAP: Standby for marking.
RYAN: Sorry. I'm sorry. It's done. EXPLORER CAP: Kowalsky, initiate emergency disconnect from the Hubble.
THE PORTHOLE-: And through the glass she sees that- RYAN: Oh, no. No, no, no.
RYAN: You are singing to your baby? Is that a lullaby? That's so sweet! RYAN: I used to sing to my baby too. RYAN: I hope I see her soon. RYAN: That's nice. Keep singing, Aningang, just like that. Sing me to sleep. I'll sleep and sleep and sleep. Sing to me, Aningang... sing...sing..…
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 56 are women's.
311 lines from women, 247 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
2 women and 5 men in the cast. 3 women and 6 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 5 of 597.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 11 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 46% of the words (2,313), men 54% (2,699). Women have 56% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: 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
11
Two men
17
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 26% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Alfonso Cuarón (man)
- Written by
- Alfonso Cuarón (man), Jonás Cuarón (man)
- Produced by
- Alfonso Cuarón (man), David Heyman (man)
- Shot by
- Emmanuel Lubezki (man)
- Edited by
- Alfonso Cuarón (man), Mark Sanger (man)
- Music by
- Steven Price (man)
- Production design by
- Andy Nicholson (man)
- Costumes by
- Jany Temime (woman)
- Cast by
- Richard Hicks (man), David Rubin (man), Lucinda Syson (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Visual Effects
4 women, 28 men, 156 not listed
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Other crew
14 women, 25 men, 45 not listed
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Sound
5 women, 23 men, 11 not listed
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Production
5 women, 8 men, 19 not listed
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Art
2 women, 6 men, 7 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 7 men, 5 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 2 men, 10 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 6 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 47 on average. Men: 48 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Amy Warren 45, Sandra Bullock 49
Men
Phaldut Sharma 24, George Clooney 52, Orto Ignatiussen 54, Ed Harris 62
Exhibit H: the money
It made 6.9 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $105 million
- Box office
- $723 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 1 scenes and 597 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
