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Special Look at Ava DuVernay in Action Directing Selma

Here’s what Oprah has to say about Ava: “I’ve never seen anyone with such intense passion and willful direction and yet be such a calming force as well.” And she’s worked with Steven...

Features, News

Ballet Dancer Misty Copeland to Get Biopic

Women and Hollywood is taking a break this week. Please enjoy one of our most popular posts of the year below. We will return with new features, editorials, and news stories on Monday, January 5....

News

A Look Back and Pushing Forward Towards 2015

As the year ends I want to thank everyone who is part of the Women and Hollywood community. As you can see we are more than just a website. We are a project made up of people who educate, advocate...

Features

8 Queer Women Films to Watch in 2014

News

Disney Fans Makeover Newest Disney Princess

Women and Hollywood is on break this week. Please enjoy one of our most popular posts of the year below. We will return with new features, editorials, and news stories on Monday, January 5. After...

News

Top Designers Refused to Make Melissa McCarthy’s Oscar Dress

Women and Hollywood is on break this week. Please enjoy one of our most popular posts of the year below. We will return with new features, editorials, and news stories on Monday, January 5....

Features, News, Women Directors

An Oscar-Nominated Director Gets Real About How Women Are Treated in Hollywood

Women and Hollywood is taking a break this week. Please enjoy one of our most popular posts of the year below. We will return with new features, editorials, and news stories on Monday, January 5....

News, Women Directors

The Women of Hollywood’s Men’s Men’s Men’s World

In today’s NY Times, critic Manohla Dargis gives us her second feature on women directors working in Hollywood entitled In Hollywood, It’s A Men’s, Men’s Men’s World. She focuses this time...

Features

A List of All of Women and Hollywood’s End-Of-Year Coverage

Women and Hollywood is giving 2014 a grand send-off by celebrating as many different kinds of female-centric projects, events, milestones, and achievements as we can. Please check out all of our...

Features, News, Women Directors, Women Writers

Spotlight on Women of Color in 2014

Women and Hollywood’s end-of-year coverage includes our “Best Women-Directed Documentaries of 2014 (That We Managed to See),” “Best Women-Directed Films of 2014,” “Best Films About Women...

News, Videos

Trailer Watch: Helen Mirren Fights For Her ‘Woman in Gold’

The box-office success of 2013’s Philomena (which enjoyed a worldwide gross of $100 million on a $12 million production budget) apparently convinced the BBC that movies about women — even...

News, Women Directors

Women and Hollywood Podcast #7: Ava DuVernay — Director of Selma

To end the year on a high note I give you my latest podcast with Ava DuVernay, the director of Selma. Just a couple of things to note: the audio on this is not great. But Ava is so important a...

Awards, Features

The Big O: 2014 Delivers, From Ellen’s Pizza to DuVernay’s Historic Milestone

Thanks to a guy named Oscar, 2014 began on a cinematic high note for women. And not just because Idina Menzel composed herself enough to soar through the night’s eventual best-song winner,...

News

Jena Malone to Star in So Yong Kim’s Road-Trip Romance ‘Lovesong’

Hunger Games actress and indie darling Jena Malone will reunite with director So Yong Kim in Lovesong, a road-trip movie about the romance that develops between two best friends: Sarah (Malone), the...

News

Reese Witherspoon: “It’s Time That We Start Seeing Women for How Complex They Really Are”

Reese Witherspoon’s makeover from America’s Sweetheart to America’s Bookworm continues with a segment on 60 Minutes, in which the Wild actress and Gone Girl producer talks to Charlie Rose...

News, Television

Sarah Silverman and Sarah Jessica Parker Developing New Comedies for HBO

Two TV comedy veterans are creating starring vehicles for themselves at HBO. Last week brought news that Sarah Silverman and Sarah Jessica Parker are developing new series around the under-explored...

Features, Weekly Update

Weekly Update for December 19 & 24–25: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening December 19 Annie — Co-Written by Aline Brosh McKenna Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who’s also tough...

News, Trailers, Videos

Trailer Watch: Lesbian S&M Returns to the Arthouse via ‘The Duke of Burgundy’

Features, News, Women Directors, Women Writers

The Most Important Feminist Film Moments of 2014

Women and Hollywood’s end-of-year coverage includes our “Best Women-Directed Documentaries of 2014 (That We Managed to See),” “Best Women-Directed Films of 2014,” “Best Films About Women...

News, Trailers, Videos

Trailer Watch: Kate Winslet Designs ‘A Little Chaos’

Those of us who have missed Kate Winslet playing headstrong women in period garb have much to look forward to in A Little Chaos. Winslet is reunited with her Sense and Sensibility co-star Alan...

Features, News, Women Writers

The Best Films About Women in 2014

Women and Hollywood’s end-of-year coverage includes our “Best Women-Directed Documentaries of 2014 (That We Managed to See),” “Best Women-Directed Films of 2014,” and “Best TV Shows and...

Awards, News

Shonda Rhimes to Receive WGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Just fifteen years after the premiere of HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Shonda Rhimes’ first credited feature screenplay, the Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal creator will receive the...

News

Women and Hollywood Podcast #6: Kate Muir, Chief Film Critic at The Times of London

Please listen to my podcast with Kate Muir, Chief Film Critic at the Times of London. We discuss Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken and Ava DuVernay’s Selma, as well as the holiday films that will be...

Features, Television

The Best TV Shows and Moments of 2014: Comics, Convicts, and Curmudgeons

Features

The A to Z of Women in Film in 2014: Part 2

Read the first part of this series, “The A to M of Women in Film in 2014,” here. N is for Nicole Perlman The male domination of the Marvel universe became an increasingly hot topic this year,...

Features, News, Women Directors, Women Writers

The Best Women-Directed Films of 2014

Women and Hollywood’s end-of-year coverage includes our “Best Women-Directed Documentaries of 2014 (That We Managed to See)” list, with much more to come in the next few days. The abysmal...

Awards, Features

The Big O: Want to Win Oscar’s Heart? Put Down the Mascara and Hide the Comb

Yep, they are falling for it again. Call it glamming down, uglifying, or letting yourself go, but more actresses than usual are forgoing makeup and regular shampoos in order to impress those...

Awards, News, Women Directors

Liv Ullmann Awarded Coolest-Sounding Honor Ever for ‘Miss Julie’

Liv Ullmann will receive the Nordic Honorary Dragon Award from the Goteborg Film Festival (Jan. 23 — Feb. 2, 2015) in Sweden. The Norwegian actress and director will attend the festival,...

Documentary, News, Television, Videos

Trailer Watch: Searching for Solutions to Women’s Oppression in ‘A Path Appears’

News, Television, Videos

Trailer Watch: The ‘Broad City’ Broads Ogle Hot Guys in a New Teaser

You know that scene in every 80s teen movie where a couple of high-fiving dorks gawk at a group of ridiculously beautiful women who are weirdly giving them the time of day? Broad City’s Ilana...

Features, News

Seeking Our Story: The Art of Pioneering Animator Lotte Reiniger

The following is an excerpt from a forthcoming book by author Heidi Honeycutt. Charlotte “Lotte”Reiniger (1899–1981)was a German silhouette artist and animator in the first half of the...

Features, News

The Best Women-Directed Documentaries of 2014 (That We Managed to See)

It’s very difficult to create a best-of-year list when you haven’t seen everything that’s available. More documentaries were released this year that can be seen by any reasonable person. But I...

News, Women Writers

13% of 2014 Black List Scripts Written by Women

Kristina Lauren Anderson’s Catherine the Great topped the 2014 Black List. Anderson’s scripted biopic of the Russian royal was the most popular among the 250 film executives who were polled by...

Features, News, Women Directors, Women Writers

The A to Z of Women in Film in 2014: Part 1

In some ways, it’s been a year like any other. Some extraordinary female talent has broken through. Some miraculous, female-led stories have been told. And yet the industry as a whole has done its...

News

Brit Marling’s Feminist Western ‘The Keeping Room’ Bought by Drafthouse Films

A new feminist Western will ride into town next fall. Brit Marling will star alongside Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru in The Keeping Room, in which a trio of Southern women band together to fend...

News, Women Executives

The Sony Hack, Amy Pascal, and Gender and Power in Hollywood

It hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for Amy Pascal and the folks at Sony. I would even venture to say that these last couple of weeks have been the shittiest of Ms. Pascal’s 30-year career in...

Awards, News

Only 5% of Oscar-Qualifying Scores Composed by Women

The statistics for women directors in the film industry are abysmal, but the statics for women composers are even worse. A recent study found that, of the 250 top-grossing films last year, only 2%...

News, Women Directors

Agnes Varda Criticizes Lack of Recognition for Women Directors at European Film Awards

One of the world’s most respected female directors has spoken out against the lack of recognition given to women in the film industry. Upon receiving a lifetime-achievement honor from the...

News

Margaret Cho to Host Late-Night Cable Talk Show About Sex

Looks like we’ll finally get some gender diversity in late night. TLC has announced a new show called All About Sex to be hosted by four women: comedians Margaret Cho and Heather McDonald,...

Features, Weekly Update

Weekly Update for December 12: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening This Week Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks Based on the international hit play by Richard Alfieri which has played in 24 countries and in 14 languages, Six Dance Lessons in...

Features, News, Women Directors

Quote of the Day: Ava DuVernay

Earlier this week, Shonda Rhimes thanked her foremothers while receiving the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award for creating cracks in the glass ceiling so she could get through when the ABC VIP began...

News, Television

Amy Schumer to Produce Comedy Central Show Starring Rachel Feinstein

News, Videos

Trailer Watch: What a Parent-Preteen Fight Looks Like from the ‘Inside Out’

News, Television

BBC to Adapt J.K. Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Mystery Series for Television

J.K. Rowling’s post-Hogwarts mystery series is coming to television. Well, to British television, anyway. The BBC will adapt Rowling’s The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm — the two...

News, Women Directors

Penny Marshall to Direct Biopic Of Effa Manley, the First Woman to Make Baseball Hall Of Fame

A League of Their Own director Penny Marshall is returning to the diamond field with Effa, a biopic about Effa Manley, the first woman inducted into the baseball hall of fame. Manley was the...

News

Shonda Rhimes Pays Tribute to Hollywood’s Female Pioneers: “I Haven’t Broken Through Any Glass Ceilings”

It’s an unlikely statement, even a confusing one. “I haven’t broken through any glass ceilings,” announced Shonda Rhimes upon receiving the Hollywood Reporter’s Sherry Lansing Award,...

Comedy, News

Sarah Silverman on Joan Rivers: She Was Punished “for the Crime of Getting Her Own Show”

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Features, News

‘The Red Tent’: The Old Testament Minus Testosterone

Awards, News

Golden Globes Justifies Its Existence With Nods for ‘Transparent,’ ‘Jane the Virgin,’ Julianne Moore in ‘Maps to the Stars’

The Golden Globes proved its bona fides as a worthy alternative to the Oscars and the Emmys with this year’s nods. Nominees include small-screen dark horses unlikely to be recognized by the Emmys...

Awards, News, Women Directors

Ava DuVernay Becomes First African American Woman Nominated for Best Director Golden Globe

From my latest Forbes post on the importance of Ava DuVernay’s historic nomination: One of the most important parts of seeing Ava DuVernay’s nomination is the visibility that she will get on a...

News

Angelina Jolie, Shonda Rhimes, Oprah Winfrey Make Women in Entertainment Power 100 List

The Hollywood Reporter’s 23rd annual Power 100 list is out, and it’s more or less the list you’d expect: a few superstar actresses (Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lawrence, Shailene Woodley);...

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