Ryan Coogler just put out his 5th feature film before turning 40, and that made me wonder how old the average filmmaker was for any given year.
To me, the white streaks moving up + right suggests there are cohorts of directors that come along every ~5 years and they enjoy enough clout to work steadily for ~10 years before fading out. And sometimes there *isn’t* a cohort — there weren’t a lot of 42 year olds putting out movies in 1960, perhaps because they would have been 24-26 when when the US entered WWII: prime fighting age.
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Ryan Coogler just put out his 5th feature film before turning 40, and that made me wonder how old the average filmmaker was for any given year.
To me, the white streaks moving up + right suggests there are cohorts of directors that come along every ~5 years and they enjoy enough clout to work steadily for ~10 years before fading out. And sometimes there *isn’t* a cohort — there weren’t a lot of 42 year olds putting out movies in 1960, perhaps because they would have been 24-26 when when the US entered WWII: prime fighting age.
I got the data from https://datasets.imdbws.com/, and used matplotlib + seaborn to generate the heatmap.
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