Awards
Television Academy Announces 2020 Honorees: “Unbelievable,” “Queen Sugar,” & More
Another industry event has been “postponed indefinitely” on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. Variety reports that the 13th annual Television Academy Honors awards ceremony won’t go...
Five of Six Novels on the Booker International Shortlist Are by Women
Five of six novels shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize are written by women. The prestigious annual prize, which includes 50,000 pounds (about $62,000 USD), is awarded to the best...
NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre Awards $2 Million in Grants to 94 Projects
The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre has presented grants to 94 music, stage, film, and digital media projects from and/or about women. A press release from the Mayor’s Office of...
Julia Bacha, Michelle Latimer, and More Receive Grants from Abigail Disney’s Fork Films
Abigail Disney’s production company, Fork Films, has announced its latest round of grant recipients: $400,000 will be presented to 10 documentaries, nine of which are directed by women. The...
Protests from Adèle Haenel, Céline Sciamma, Activists, and More Rock the 2020 César Awards
When the César Awards inexplicably presented Roman Polanski with the best director prize at its 45th edition February 28, actress Adèle Haenel, her “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” director...
Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” Wins Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
“Never Rarely Sometimes Always” had a great weekend at home and abroad. Eliza Hittman’s third feature made its NY premiere at the Athena Film Festival and took home the Silver Bear...
Judith Light Will Receive Variety Icon Award at Canneseries
Judith Light has been named as the third-ever recipient of the Variety Icon Award. She follows in the footsteps of “Downton Abbey’s” Michelle Dockery and “Game of...
Lesley Visser Will Make History as First Woman to Receive Sports Emmys’ Lifetime Achievement Award
For nearly half a century, Lesley Visser has reported on the sidelines of some of the most high-profile sporting events, and now she’s further cementing her own legacy in history books....
Diane Warren and Anna Netrebko to Receive the Polar Music Prize
Eleven-time Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren and opera singer Anna Netrebko have been named the 2020 Polar Music Prize Laureates. Variety reports that the two will receive the award, and its...
Essence Honors Niecy Nash, Melina Matsoukas, Lashana Lynch, Janet Mock, and the Cast of “Pose”
Essence’s recent Black Women in Hollywood event did what the rest of the 2020 awards season wouldn’t: it honored women of color, multiple women of color. The annual awards ceremony and...
Spirit Award Winners Include “The Farewell” and “Booksmart”
Unlike the Golden Globes and Oscars, the Independent Spirit Awards recognized the fact that women directed some of 2019’s finest films. The winners at Saturday’s ceremony included Lulu...
Oscars 2020: Female Composers Make History, Natalie Portman Honors Women Directors
Exactly zero women were up for Best Director at last night’s Academy Awards, but Natalie Portman helped ensure that some of 2019’s leading female filmmakers got attention on film’s...
Carol Shields Prize Will Award $150,000 to a Woman or Nonbinary Author
A new literary prize has been launched to raise the visibility of women writers. Named in honor of the Pulitzer Prize- winning author of “The Stone Diaries,” the Carol Shields Prize will...
Filmmaker Leya Hale Named 2020 Recipient of Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship
Filmmaker and PBS producer Leya Hale has received the 2020 Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship. Named in honor of the late groundbreaking Māori filmmaker Merata Mita, the annual fellowship...
Zawan Mahmoud & Viviane Charlestin Receive Horizon Award for Emerging Women Directors at Sundance
Zawan Mahmoud and Viviane Charlestin are the winners of the 2020 Horizon Award for rising female filmmakers. Prize founders Christine Vachon, Lynette Howell Taylor, and Cassian Elwes presented the...
“Little Women” and “Fleabag” Score USC Scripter Awards
Women claimed the top prizes at the 32nd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards. A celebration of the best adaptations from literary materials, the event was held Saturday night in Los...
Eímear Noone Will Make History as the First Woman to Conduct at the Oscars
Eímear Noone will be conducting at the 92nd Academy Awards, cementing her place in history as the first woman to ever do so at the ceremony. The Irish-born composer “will conduct excerpts from...
Chicken & Egg Announces 2020 Award Recipients and Introduces Project: Hatched
Chicken & Egg Pictures is ringing in the new year by naming the recipients of its 2020 Chicken & Egg Awards and introducing its newest programs, Project: Hatched and the Chicken & Egg...
Tilda Swinton to Be Honored with BFI Fellowship and BFI Southbank Season
The BFI is paying tribute to Tilda Swinton. The Oscar and BAFTA winner will receive the BFI Fellowship to honor and celebrate her “daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and...
2020 Oscar Noms: Women Shut Out of Directing Race (Yet Again) But Clean Up in Doc Category
The Academy Awards is celebrating its 92nd edition this year. Nominees for the biggest awards show of the season just dropped, and women directors have been excluded from the best director category...
Amy Sherman-Palladino, Nicole Kassell, and Linda Mendoza Snag DGA Award Noms
The Directors Guild of America announced the final round of television nominees for its 2020 DGA Awards and, per The Hollywood Reporter, each of the three categories features women contenders —...
Zeitgeist Films to Receive Spotlight Lifetime Achievement Award at Art House Convergence
Zeitgeist Films is set to receive a major honor at Art House Convergence’s annual conference. The indie film distributor’s co-founders, Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo, have been named as the...
Tig Notaro to Receive Honor at Oscar Wilde Awards
The Oscar Wilde Awards is set to pay tribute to Tig Notaro. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that the Mississippi-born stand-up comedian “with Irish roots” will be recognized at the 15th...
“Booksmart” and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Among Dorian Award and GLAAD Media Award Nominees
The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ (GALECA) has announced the nominees for their annual Dorian Awards. Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” received a...
DGA Awards: Mati Diop, Alma Har’el, and Melina Matsoukas Nominated for First-Time Feature Film
The Directors Guild of America has announced more nominees for the 2020 DGA Awards. Not a single woman is in the running in the Feature Film category. More encouragingly, women account for three of...
Awards Roundup: BAFTA Noms Exclude Actors of Color & “American Factory” Wins Big at Cinema Eye
The 2020 BAFTA nominations are in — and pretty damn disappointing. People of color, such as “Hustlers'” Jennifer Lopez and “The Farewell’s” Awkwafina, have been...
“Little Women” and “Frozen 2” Among Nominees for Producers Guild of America Awards
Nominations for the 2020 Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards are in. The PGA Awards’ Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures category is regarded as a...
DGA Award Nominations: Ava DuVernay, Jessica Yu, Nanfu Wang, & More Land Nods
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is beginning to unveil nominations for the 2020 DGA Awards. Women account for three of six nominees in the Movies for Television and Miniseries category: Ava...
Writers Guild Film Nominations: “Little Women,” “Booksmart,” & More
Three of our favorite films by and about women from last year are among the nominees for the 2020 Writers Guild Awards. “Little Women,” “Booksmart,” and “The...
Golden Globes: Awkwafina Makes History, Kate McKinnon Pays Tribute To Ellen DeGeneres
Awkwafina celebrated a historic win at last night’s Golden Globe Awards. The “Crazy Rich Asians” breakout was named best lead actress in a movie comedy/musical for “The...
Jamie Lee Curtis to Be Honored by Society of Camera Operators
The Society of Camera Operators (SOC) is paying tribute to Jamie Lee Curtis. The “Knives Out” actress has been named as the recipient of the professional honor society’s Lifetime...
Cynthia Erivo to Receive Breakthrough Performance Award at Palm Springs Film Fest
Following supporting turns in “Widows,” “Bad Times at the El Royale,” and a handful of other projects, Cynthia Erivo made her on-screen debut as a leading lady in Kasi...
Nancy Meyers to Be Honored with WGA West’s Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is paying tribute to Nancy Meyers. The writer-director has been named as the 2020 recipient of the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, a lifetime...
London Critics’ Circle Film Nominations Announced, “The Souvenir” Leads the Pack
The lovefest for”The Souvenir” continues. Earlier this month Joanna Hogg’s coming-of-age drama topped Sight & Sound’s Best of 2019 list, and now comes word that the pic...
Oscars Doc Shortlist Includes “For Sama,” “One Child Nation,” & More
We’re one step closer to finding out which films will receive Oscar nods. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced shortlists for a number of categories including...
Paula Pell and Merrill Markoe Win WGA Honors
The Writers Guild of America is set to celebrate Paula Pell and Merrill Markoe on different coasts. The former has been named as the winner of WGA East’s Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence...
Sally Potter to Be Celebrated with Top Honor at London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
Sally Potter is set to receive the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film at the 40th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, Deadline reports. The writer-director follows in the footsteps of Judi...
IDA Documentary Awards Winners: “For Sama,” “American Factory,” & More
“For Sama” took home the top honor at this year’s IDA Documentary Awards, held Saturday in LA. Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts received the Best Feature Documentary Award for the...
Laura Dern to Receive Palm Springs Film Fest’s Career Achievement Award
It’s been an exciting week for Laura Dern. She just scored a Golden Globe nomination for her supporting turn in “Marriage Story,” was recently honored with the Actress Tribute at...
Golden Globe Nominations: Women Directors Are Shut Out Yet Again
The 2020 Golden Globe nominations are in. Since 2010, 50 filmmakers have been nominated for Best Director at the ceremony. Just two of them have been women: Kathryn Bigelow (“Zero Dark...
AFI Awards: “Little Women,” “The Farewell,” “When They See Us,” & More
“Little Women” and “The Farewell” are showing no signs of slowing down this awards season. The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the recipients of the 2019 AFI...
New York Film Critics Circle Winners: “Atlantics,” “Honeyland,” & More
The members of the New York Film Critics Circle have cast their votes for the best films of 2019, and the results are in. Mati Diop’s “Atlantics” has been named as Best First Film....
Gotham Award Winners: Awkwafina, “American Factory,” & More
Awkwafina’s awards season is getting off to a solid start. She took home the Best Actress Award at the 29th Annual IFP Gotham Awards at a ceremony held Monday in New York City for her role in...
“For Sama” Dominates British Independent Film Awards
“For Sama” has been collecting accolades across the globe since its world premiere this March at SXSW, where it took home the Audience Award for a Documentary Feature and SXSW Grand Jury...
Susan Choi and Sarah M. Broom Score Top Honors at the National Book Awards
Top honors for the 2019 National Book Awards went to women. Susan Choi took home the fiction award and Sarah M. Broom the nonfiction award. The Los Angeles Times reported on the ceremony, held last...
“The Farewell,” “Booksmart,” & “Clemency” Among 2020 Film Indie Spirit Award Nominees
The 2020 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations are in — and a wide selection of women-directed pics, including “The Farewell,” “Booksmart,” and...
Charlize Theron to Receive Honor at Palm Springs Film Festival
Oscar nominations won’t be announced until January 13, but “Bombshell” favorite Charlize Theron has just been named as the recipient of the International Star Award, Actress at the...
PGA Awards: Over 70 Percent of Doc Nominees Are Directed or Co-Directed by Women
Earlier this year, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for “Free Solo,” a look inside Alex Honnold’s quest to make history as...
Kasi Lemmons, Gloria Estefan, & More to Be Honored at NY Women in Film & TV Muse Awards
“Harriet” has grossed over $25 million and Oscar buzz for its leading lady, Cynthia Erivo, since it hit theaters November 1, and now director Kasi Lemmons has more to celebrate....
Kristin Scott Thomas to Be Honored at BIFA Awards
Kristin Scott Thomas is set to be recognized for her “outstanding contribution to British film” at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards. She’s been named as the recipient of the...
Octavia Spencer Will Receive the PGA’s 2020 Visionary Award
Octavia Spencer has previously been honored as an actress and as an LGBTQ ally — and now she’ll be celebrated as a producer. Deadline confirms the “Truth Be Told” actress and...