Awards
‘Inside Out’ Dominates Annie Award Nominations with 14 Nods
“Inside Out” leads this year’s Annie Award nominations. The Pixar coming-of-age film, voiced in part by Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling and Phyllis Smith (“The Office”), scored a whopping 14...
Women Take Home Only Acting and Web Series Accolades From 2015 Gothams
A trio of actresses and a web series duo were the only creative female honorees of last night’s 25th Gotham Independent Film Awards. “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” was nominated in four...
Carol Morley Wins 2015 Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Fellowship
Carol Morley has been named the 2015 Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Fellowship recipient. Best known as the writer-director of the 2014 fainting-epidemic drama “The Falling,” Morley also penned...
Spirit Award Nods Announced: ‘Carol,’ ‘Tangerine,’ ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ and More
The nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards are in, and while the indie film world — including its own awards circuit — is slightly more hospitable to female filmmakers than...
“The Hunting Ground,” “Meru,” “Something Better to Come” Nominated for PGA’s Top Doc Award
Two documentaries directed/co-directed by female filmmakers have been nominated for the Producers Guild of America’s nonfiction award. Hanna Polak’s “Something Better to Come,” a portrait...
Leena Yadav’s ‘Parched’ Wins Stockholm Impact Award Recognizing “Headstrong Filmmakers”
Writer-director Leena Yadav’s “Parched,” about four rural Indian women fighting against sexist traditions, has received the inaugural Stockholm Impact Award. Granted by the Stockholm...
‘Mustang’ Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven on Creating a Sisterhood, Representing France at the Oscars
“Mustang” is both a powerful coming-of-age story and a touching tribute to sisterhood. The story follows five sisters in Turkey who cause a stir in their ultra-conservative village when...
Havana Marking Wins Sundance Institute and TED Award For Doc on Political Corruption
Havana Marking has been named the recipient of the Sundance Institute | TED Prize Filmmaker Award, an honor that includes a $125,000 grant. Making won for “Bloody Mary,” a documentary short...
Academy Launches 5-Year Diversity Initiative
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the body behind the Academy Awards, is launching a new initiative to encourage more diversity in Hollywood called A2020. On Saturday, Spike Lee...
Blythe Danner, Gabourey Sidibe, Patricia Clarkson Among Muse Awards Honorees
Actresses Blythe Danner, Gabourey Sidibe, Patricia Clarkson, BBC America exec Sarah Barnett and Marvel Studios EP Victoria Alonso have been named the 2015 recipients of NY Women in Film and...
Two Female Playwrights Win Philip Seymour Hoffman Award
Clare Barron and Sarah DeLappe have been named the winners of the inaugural Relentless Award, a play-writing prize founded in actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s memory. Barron’s “Dance Nation”...
Shonda Rhimes to Receive PGA’s 2016 Norman Lear Award
Shonda Rhimes has been named the 2016 recipient of the Producers Guild of America’s Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television. Rhimes is, of course, one of the most powerful producers in TV,...
IDA Documentary Awards Nominations Announced; Liz Garbus Up for Best Feature Award
The nominations for the 31st IDA Documentary Awards have been revealed, and disappointingly, only one of the six docs competing for the Best Feature Award is helmed by a woman: Liz Garbus’s...
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s ‘The Dressmaker’ Leads Aussie Oscar Nominations
The nominations for the Aussie Oscars have been announced, and Jocelyn Moorhouse’s “The Dressmaker” is up for a whopping 12 awards. The revenge comedy-drama starring Kate Winslet as a...
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Kate Winslet to Be Honored at the British Independent Film Awards
Kate Winslet is getting another award she can store in her bathroom. The “Steve Jobs” star is set to receive The Variety Award at the 2015 Moet British Independent Film Awards on December 6. The...
2015 Gotham Nominations: ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl,’ ‘Carol,’ ‘Tangerine’ Lead With Most Nods
The 2015–16 award season kicked off this morning with the announcement of the nominations for the 25th Gotham Independent Film Awards. Leading the pack with four nominations is Marielle...
Karyn Kusama’s ‘The Invitation’ Wins Best Film Award at 48th Sitges Film Festival
Karyn Kusama’s dinner-party drama “The Invitation” took home the Best Film trophy from Spain’s Sitges Film Festival over the weekend. The film opened the the 2015 SXSW Festival and has been...
Women Helmers Win 3 of 4 Awards at London Film Fest; Athina Rachel Tsangari Takes Best Film
“The programming team has declared this the year of the strong woman,” said festival director Clare Stewart back in September at the the launch of this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The...
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks Wins $300,000 Gish Prize for “Highly Accomplished Artists”
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has been awarded the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which honors “highly accomplished artists… who have pushed the boundaries of their art forms, contributed to...
Barbra Streisand to Receive 2015 Sherry Lansing Award
Barbra Streisand has been named this year’s recipient of the Sherry Lansing Award, which celebrates female leadership in the media. The pioneering...
15% of Oscars Submissions for 2016’s Best Foreign Language Film Category Directed by Women
Twelve films directed or co-directed by women have been submitted by their respective countries for the 2016 Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film category. Those dozen works make up about 15% of...
‘Tangerine’ Team Launches First-Ever Oscar Campaigns for Transgender Actresses
Playing a transgender character has recently joined starring in a biopic and “going ugly” as surefire ways to grab the Academy’s attention. Jared Leto won an Oscar for “Dallas Buyers...
Julie Taymor Becomes First Woman Director to Win Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre
Julie Taymor, the first woman to win a Tony for directing a musical, will be adding yet another award to her mantel: She’s been named the 2015 recipient of the William Shakespeare Award for...
Julie Schumacher Wins the 2015 Thurber Prize for American Humor
Julie Schumacher has been named the 2015 winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. The University of Minnesota instructor was honored for her novel “Dear Committee Members,” a satire...
Philiane Phang Named the Inaugural Phosphate Prize at IFP Winner
Writer-director Philiane Phang has been named the inaugural winner of The Independent Filmmakers Project’s Phosphate Prize. IFP launched the prize to recognize narrative-feature-film screenplays...
The 10 Best Emmy Moments for Women Last Night
The Emmys shed its reputation for staid predictability last night — at least for this year — with Viola Davis’ historic win and recognition for fresh, even cutting-edge series and...
Quote of the Day: Lina Wertmuller Explains Why Female Filmmakers are Ignored During Awards Season
In 1977, Lina Wertmuller became the first woman to ever be nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards. It’s been nearly two decades since the “Seven Beauties” helmer was recognized with...
Sally Field, Miriam Colón, Meredith Monk, Others to Receive White House’s National Medals of Arts
The White House will bestow National Medals of Arts to actresses Sally Field and Miriam Colón, singer Meredith Monk, visual artist Ann Hamilton and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, among...
Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis to Produce 2015 Governors Awards
The Academy’s 7th annual Governors Awards will bestow an Honorary Award to Gena Rowlands and Spike Lee and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Debbie Reynolds. Making sure that the...
Six Up-and-Coming Women Writers Awarded $30,000 Rona Jaffe Awards
Two poets, a memoirist and three fiction writers have been named the winners of this year’s Rona Jaffe Awards. Each writer will win a $30,000 cash prize. The honorees are Meehan Crist, Vanessa...
Cate Blanchett to Receive BFI’s Highest Honor
Cate Blanchett will be presented with a British Film Institute Fellowship, the BFI’s highest honor, at the London Film Festival’s annual awards ceremony on October 17. One of the actress’s two...
Meryl Streep to be Honored at 2015 Brittania Awards
Apparently there’s an award out there that Meryl Streep hasn’t already won. The “Ricki and the Flash” actress will receive the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film at the...
Reese Witherspoon to Receive American Cinematheque Award as Actress and Producer
Reese Witherspoon’s contributions to cinema as an actress and a producer will be recognized with an American Cinematheque Award. The honor is annually bestowed on “an extraordinary artist in...
Carol Burnett to Receive SAG Lifetime Achievement Award
Comedy pioneer Carol Burnett is set to receive SAG-AFTRA’s highest tribute: the SAG Life Achievement Award. The eponymous star of “The Carol Burnett Show” is the 52nd recipient of the...
2015 Emmy Nod Favorites: ‘Bessie,’ ‘Transparent,’ ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ Amy Schumer, Black Actresses
The Emmys are usually as staid as the entertainment industry gets, with the same group of people getting nominated and winning for the same roles year after year. There are a lot of old favorites...
Women Win Majority of Awards at Provincetown Film Fest: Coixet, Green, Bianco and More
Women directors won big at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival, taking home five of the eight prizes awarded. Isabel Coixet’s “Learning to Drive” landed the HBO Audience...
2015 LA Film Fest: Women Directors Win World Fiction Award, Audience Awards and More
Female filmmakers left a major impression on juries and audiences at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival. We were already impressed by the number of women-directed projects selected to screen at the...
Highlights from Ava DuVernay, Nicole Kidman, Jill Soloway at WIF’s 2015 Crystal + Lucy Awards
Feminist film history, lost opportunities with Jane Campion, calls for solidarity and revolution — the winners of Women in Film’s 2015 Crystal + Lucy Awards used their time at the podium to...
Ali Smith’s ‘How to Be Both’ Wins Baileys Prize for Best English-Language Novel by a Woman
Ali Smith’s “How to Be Both,” an experimental novel about two characters living centuries apart, has been crowned the winner of the 2015 Baileys Prize. The twin tales of an Italian...
Amy Schumer Calls Bullsh*t on Things That Give Women Low Self-Esteem in Awards Speech
How The Lilly Awards Help Make Women’s Stories Matter
The recipients of this year’s Lilly Awards gathered onthe stage of Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons Monday afternoon and remained thereas all the awards were presented, chatting, laughing,...
Study: Books About Women Are Shut Out of Major Awards
Of the eight films nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars, none were about women. Lest you think that was some freak coincidence, novelist Nicola Griffith has come out with an informal...
Get Involved: A Call to Action about the Representation of Women at the Tony Awards
On June 7th, when girls across the country turnon the Tony Awards, what do you want them to see? This is the question we’re posing to the Tony AwardsManagement Committee and CBS in a petition...
Shonda Rhimes and Jenji Kohan Win Global Women’s Rights Awards
Shonda Rhimes and Jenji Kohan were recognized for “changing the face of media” by the Feminist Majority Foundation at the 10th annual Global Women’s Rights Awards on Monday. Rhimes and Kohan...
Jane Fonda and Megan Ellison Receive Kering’s Inaugural Women in Motion Awards
Jane Fonda and Annapurna Pictures founder Megan Ellison received the inaugural Women in Motion award from Kering at a gala held Sunday in Cannes. Both women delivered acceptance speeches that...
All-Female Shortlist Announced for Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction
The shortlist for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction has been announced, and all three nominated novelists are women. The £10,000 ($15,700 USD) literary prize is awarded to the best debut...
Agnès Varda to Become First Woman Director to Receive Honorary Palme d’Or
Agnès Varda will become the first female filmmaker — and only the fourth director period — to receive an honorary Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival. Varda will be feted at...
Laura Bispuri’s Transgender Odyssey ‘Sworn Virgin’ Wins Tribeca Film Fest’s Nora Ephron Prize
Italian director Laura Bispuri has won the third annual Nora Ephron prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. Awarded to female filmmakers “with a distinctive voice” since 2013, the recognition comes...
Barbara Seyda’s Debut Play “Celia, a Slave: 26 Characters Testify” Wins Yale Drama Prize
Barbara Seyda’s first play, “Celia, a Slave: 26 Characters Testify,” has been named this year’s winner of the prestigious Yale Drama Series Prize. Based on historical events, “Celia”...
Ann Hui’s ‘The Golden Era’ Wins Hong Kong Film Awards’ Best Film, Best Director Prizes
Ann Hui’s “The Golden Era” continues its domination of Chinese film awards. Hong Kong’s 2015 Oscar submission for the foreign-language-film category has thus far garnered Hui, its director,...