Women in Film and Television (UK) partnered with Screen International and Broadcast have released the 2012 Women in Film and Television Power List. Here’s a quote from the head of Women in Film Kate Kinninmont about the list (the quote is from the release)
We at WFTV are very aware that women are still too few in important media jobs, worse paid in many roles and too easily pushed out of the industry as they age.
But we also see the fantastic progress that women are making and we are keen to celebrate it. There are fifty extraordinary women on this Power List. Every one of them has earned her place through talent, hard work, perseverance and sheer dogged ability. We salute them all.
Here’s the list:
Executives
Elaine Bedell, director of comedy and entertainment ITV
Jana Bennett, president of worldwide networks and global iPlayer, BBC Worldwide
Amanda Berry, chief executive officer, Bafta
Helen Boaden, director, BBC News
Barbara Broccoli, producer, EON Productions
Dinah Caine, chief executive officer, Skillset
Eileen Gallagher, chief executive, Shed Productions
Sara Geater, chief executive officer, Freemantle Media UK
Janice Hadlow, controller, BBC2
Jay Hunt, chief creative officer, C4
Christine Langan, creative director, BBC Films
Lucy Lumsden, head of comedy, Sky
Laura Mackie, director of drama, ITV
Elisabeth Murdoch founder & chief executive, Shine Group
Amanda Nevill, chief executive officer, BFI
Denise O’Donaghue, managing director, ITV Studios
Jane Root, chief executive, Nutopia
Tessa Ross, controller, Film 4 and C4 Drama
Lisbeth Savill, head of Film & TV, Olswang
Caroline Thomson chief operating officer, BBC
Sophie Turner Laing, managing director of Entertainment & News, Sky
Producers/ directors
Andrea Arnold, film director — Wuthering Heights
Vanessa Berlowitz, series producer, Frozen Planet, BBC Natural History Unit
SJ Clarkson, TV director — Dexter Finola Dwyer Film Producer — Quartet (post-production)
Debra Hayward, film producer, founder — Monumental Pictures
Elizabeth Karlsen, film producer — Great Expectations, Byzantium (both in post-production)
Phyllida Lloyd, film director — The Iron Lady
Alison Owen Producer (Ruby Films) — Jane Eyre Nira Park Producer (Big Talk Productions) — Attack the Block
Norma Percy, TV documentary producer — Putin, Russia and the West
Lynne Ramsay, film director — We Need to Talk About Kevin
Moira Ross, TV producer — Head of Entertainment, Wall to Wall
Nicola Shindler, founder (Red Productions), executive producer — Scott and Bailey, Exile, Bedlam
Sue Vertue, producer (Hartswood Films) — Sherlock
Talent
Helena Bonham Carter, actress
Alex Crawford, Sky News correspondent
Naomie Harris, actress
Miranda Hart, actress/performer
Keira Knightley, actress
Carey Mulligan, actress
Sue Perkins, TV presenter
Dame Maggie Smith, actress
Tilda Swinton, actress
Kirsty Wark, journalist/ TV presenter
Kate Winslet, actress
Writers
Moira Buffini, writer — Jane Eyre, Byzantium (post-production)
Jane Goldman, writer — The Woman in Black
Abi Morgan, writer — Shame, The Iron Lady
Heidi Thomas, writer — Upstairs Downstairs
One question? Where’s Emma Thompson?
