Women and people of color figured more prominently in popular films in 2019 than in any other year measured, according to two new reports released this week. The studies, published annually by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and U.C.L.A.’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, examined films released in the last dozen years.

The U.S.C. report found that 31 of the top 100 grossing films in 2019 featured a lead or co-lead actor of color, an increase from a record set in 2018, when 27 such films were counted. Women, meanwhile, also bested a record set the previous year. They were the lead or co-lead in 43 of the 100 films, up from 39 in 2018.

For both groups, the figures are more than double what they were a little more than a decade ago. (In 2007, the first year of U.S.C.’s report, just 13 of the top 100 films featured people of color in a lead role, and 20 featured women.) But they still lag behind the demographics of the country as a whole, which the Census Bureau counts as 40 percent nonwhite and 51 percent female.

Trailing both demographic and box office trends this year were the nominations of major awards organizations — including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts — which went overwhelmingly to white actors. Stacy L. Smith, the founder of the U.S.C. initiative, singled out both groups in a statement.