Passes the Bechdel test
Nanny
2022. Directed by Nikyatu Jusu, written by Nikyatu Jusu.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
14 women characters. 10 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 16 scenes out of 95. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
Piecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, immigrant nanny Aisha is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream.
- Released
- 16 Dec 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Horror
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 5.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 72 / 100
- Awards
- 12 wins & 18 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Aisha 222 lines, woman
- Amy 68 lines, woman
- Adam 48 lines, man
- Malik 48 lines, man
- Rose 44 lines, woman
- Kathleen 23 lines, woman
- Mariatou 20 lines, woman
- Lamine 12 lines, man
- Sallay 12 lines, woman
- Nikki 9 lines, woman
Full cast, 31 people
- Anna Diop as Aisha
- Michelle Monaghan as Amy
- Sinqua Walls as Malik
- Morgan Spector as Adam
- Rose Decker as Rose
- Leslie Uggams as Kathleen
- Olamide Candide Johnson as Mariatou
- Jahleel Kamara as Lamine
- Princess Adenike as Nikki
- Mitzie Pratt as Florence
- Keturah Hamilton as Cynthia
- Anna Quirino as Filipina Nanny
- Stephanie Jae Park as Christie
- Zephani Idoko as Sallay
- Ebbe Bassey as Aunt Sarah
- Alina Carson as Annoyed American Girl
- Nate Archibald as Red Headed Boy
- Michael Cuomo as Bob
- Gisela Adisa as Sandra
- Rich Graff as Friend #1
- Meghan Noone as Friend #2
- Landrea Murray as Counselor
- Regina Ohashi as Airline Representative
- Kimberly Divad as Yasmine
- Billy Griffith as Cook
- Nicole Powell as Hostess
- Richard Haddad as Passerby at Pier
- Niahlah Hope as Mami Wata
- Kairo Jayesinghe as Baby Boy
- Gaia Durosinmi as Baby Girl
- Julie Chateauvert as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 95
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 5 to 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 to 8 | 15 | 0 |
| 9 to 10 | 17 | 0 |
| 11 to 12 | 36 | 7 |
| 13 to 14 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 to 16 | 19 | 0 |
| 17 to 18 | 4 | 2 |
| 19 to 20 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 to 22 | 9 | 0 |
| 23 to 24 | 8 | 0 |
| 25 to 26 | 4 | 3 |
| 27 to 28 | 1 | 4 |
| 29 to 30 | 8 | 11 |
| 31 to 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 to 34 | 30 | 0 |
| 35 to 36 | 15 | 0 |
| 37 to 38 | 22 | 16 |
| 39 to 40 | 7 | 13 |
| 41 to 42 | 4 | 8 |
| 43 to 44 | 23 | 5 |
| 45 to 46 | 19 | 19 |
| 47 to 48 | 0 | 1 |
| 49 to 50 | 15 | 2 |
| 51 to 52 | 30 | 2 |
| 53 to 54 | 3 | 0 |
| 55 to 56 | 4 | 4 |
| 57 to 58 | 8 | 12 |
| 59 to 60 | 0 | 0 |
| 61 to 62 | 10 | 0 |
| 63 to 64 | 38 | 0 |
| 65 to 66 | 0 | 1 |
| 67 to 68 | 1 | 1 |
| 69 to 70 | 6 | 5 |
| 71 to 72 | 9 | 0 |
| 73 to 74 | 2 | 0 |
| 75 to 76 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 to 78 | 2 | 0 |
| 79 to 80 | 8 | 0 |
| 81 to 82 | 1 | 1 |
| 83 to 84 | 1 | 0 |
| 85 to 86 | 10 | 0 |
| 87 to 88 | 3 | 0 |
| 89 to 90 | 9 | 0 |
| 91 to 92 | 3 | 0 |
| 93 to 94 | 1 | 0 |
| 95 to 95 | 0 | 0 |
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.
AMY: Rose, we’re coming in! AMY: Honey, Aisha’s here. ROSE: Hi Aisha! AISHA: Salut petit amour.
AMY: Please, I don’t want you to feel overwhelmed. Think of this as a loose guide: basic schedule, emergency contacts, a list of where things are… AMY: All phone numbers you’ll ever need. Even her therapist...some blank pages for you to fill in and make it yours... AISHA: Thank you. AMY: Ok...
ROSE: No. AISHA: Your mommy made this just for you. Don't you want to eat the healthy food Mommy made? ROSE: I don’t want it. AISHA: Encore en français. Again in french. Je ne-
AMY: Sorry I’m late! Things got crazy. AISHA: Rose is in bed. AMY: Everything was smooth. No tantrums? AISHA: None at all.
MARIATOU: Nooo Kofi! KOFI: She in America. Hi Mommy! Sing AYO AISHA: Oh my baby, my little baby, who can calm you down? Oh my baby, my little baby who can calm you down and bring you to Saloum--
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 78 are women's.
419 lines from women, 118 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
14 women and 6 men in the cast. 10 women and 4 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 5 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 75% of the words (3,531), men 25% (1,168). Women have 78% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Run the other way, for men, the film scores 1 out of 3.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
36
Two men
0
Exhibit F: behind the camera
8 of the 11 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 50% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Nikyatu Jusu (woman)
- Written by
- Nikyatu Jusu (woman)
- Produced by
- Daniela Taplin Lundberg (woman), Nikkia Moulterie (woman)
- Shot by
- Rina Yang (woman)
- Edited by
- Robert Mead (gender not listed)
- Music by
- Bartłomiej Gliniak (man), Tanerélle (woman)
- Production design by
- Jonathan Guggenheim (man)
- Costumes by
- Charlese Antoinette Jones (woman)
- Cast by
- Kim Taylor-Coleman (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
8 women, 7 men, 2 not listed
-
Sound
2 women, 6 men, 3 not listed
-
Art
2 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
-
Other crew
0 women, 3 men, 2 not listed
-
Visual Effects
1 women, 0 men, 4 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 0 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 42 on average. Men: 40 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Rose Decker 7, Anna Diop 34, Michelle Monaghan 46, Leslie Uggams 79
Men
Sinqua Walls 37, Morgan Spector 42
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 95 scenes and 554 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
