Awards
I don’t get it. Yes, the Academy wants to make people think that it is hip and young and I understand that, but Seth MacFarlane? The guy who directed Ted (which was a huge hit) and the creative...
Awards, News, Television
Last week we posted a piece about the research that showed that women created 26% of the TV shows during the 2011–2012 season. But, based on the lack of women visible onstage at last night’s...
Awards, News
Yesterday, the Academy named their 2012 recipients of the Governors Awards. As Deadline reports, the Academy will be presenting Honorary awards to stunt performer, Hal Needham, documentary...
Awards, News, Women Producers
Tonight, on the opening night of the 2012 Asian American International Film Festival, Asian CineVision will award Janet Yang with the 2012 Asian American Media Award. Yang is a deeply respected...
The Emmy nominations were released yesterday. There is a lot of good news to recognize most especially the fact that two women — Lean Dunham and Amy Poehler — were nominated for their...
Awards, News, Videos
What an amazing story. P.S. — the narrator is Reese Witherspoon
Legendary actress Charlotte Rampling will receive the festival’s excellence award at the opening night of this year’s festival on August 1st. Here’s what festival Artistic Director Olivier...
In an attempt to diversify its membership, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 176 people to become members. There are just under 6,000 members of the full Academy. Keep in...
Awards, Features, News
“It is true that you are wiser when you are older. That is true. The wisdom arrives at the same moment your mind is a blank. It’s a very ironic confluence of things. It’s kind of...
Awards, News, Theater
This article in the LA Times: Quiara Alegría Hudes, post-Pulitzer, eyes the next chapter got me going about prizes and the treatment of women. I am trying to understand the divergent paths of two...
Awards, News, Theater, Women Writers
Congratulations are in order for Audra McDonald who made history during last night’s Tony Awards celebration, becoming the first black woman to claim 5 Tony Award wins; last night’s pickup for...
Actress Jenna Elfman who will return to TV next season as the First Lady in the comedy 1600 Penn will be the host of the annual Crystal + Lucy Awards. If I lived in LA I would so be at this event...
The Critics Choice Television Awards and the Televisions Critics Association have both released their list of nominees. It is clear that the critics in both organizations love Downtown Abbey,...
Just want to take a moment and congratulate all my colleagues at Indiewire particularly editor in chief Dana Harris for the big webby win. While I am not on staff of Indiewire, Women and Hollywood...
Awards, News, Theater, Women Directors
Last June after a season where not a single female playwright was produced on Broadway it was announced that there would be at least five women with plays in the just ended 2011–2012 season. Four...
Here’s my thing about the Oscars. There were women everywhere. We can’t stop talking about the great dresses. Women were also there as great presenters (like the crew from Bridesmaids and Emma...
Sasha Stone from Awards Daily attended the Oscars last night and write a very good analysis piece. She has a big section on Viola Davis and Meryl Streep which she has given permission to cross post....
Awards, News, Women Directors
It’s that time of year, The Academy Awards, the “Super Bowl for Women.” It’s the night where we all get catty about whose dress doesn’t work, who’s got a new boyfriend or girlfriend, and...
Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti and Stephanie Gall of USC have taken a look at gender onscreen and behind the scenes in the best picture nominees over the last 30 years. There are two sets of...
You must read these really depressing but totally spot on piece by Martha Lauzen (the woman who gives us the stats of how many women are making movies, today published by the Women’s...
For some reason the folks that run the Academy have made it their business to keep the membership a secret. You kind of know who has recently been asked to be a member because they now release lists...
Lynne Ramsey’s We Need to Talk About Kevin took another top award in Britain this week — The Evening Standard Award. These awards are given out by the top London film writers and are only...
Check out this image of the cast of the Help winning best ensemble at the SAG Awards last night. I’m pretty sure we won’t see that many women on a stage again at the same time winning an award...
Another Sundance is in the books and women and their films took many of the top honors in this past weekend’s awards ceremony. Winner of the U.S. Directing Award for Documentary Film: Lauren...
The Maiwenn directed film Poliss scored the most Cesar nominations — 13 — including best picture, best screenplay and best director. But you wouldn’t know it from this breaking news...
From the indefatigable Jan Lisa Huttner who writes the Hot Pink Pen. Make sure to check out her Oscar Impact Chart. Here’s her thought process: We all want to believe that Oscar is “gold”...
This is an up and down day as you will see from the posts on the site. The Academy Award nominations have been released and while there are many great women nominated in a variety of categories, at...
It’s awards time and the NAACP and GLAAD are getting into the mix with the release of the nominees for their annual awards. Pariah, directed by Dee Rees is nominated by both organizations. GLAAD...
We all know that only one woman — Kathryn Bigelow (and it has been a long time since we uttered her name) — has won the best director honors. But there have been other women acknowledged...
Awards, News, Women Writers
In a year when we will probably not see a female director nominated for any major awards here in the US, the Brits have been smart enough to recognize the Lynne Ramsay did do one of the best...
Awards, Documentary, News, Women Directors
When I read the NY Times story earlier this week about the proposed changes for films to qualify for a documentary Academy Award nomination, I wondered how these new rules would affect films by and...
EDA ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Best Film: The Artist Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius — The Artist Best Screenplay, Original: Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen Best Screenplay, Adapted:...
Directors Guild Feature Film Nominees Include Michel Hazanavicius for ‘The Artist’ (Hollywood Reporter)
It seems that today is the day about stories about women executives under fire. Late Friday afternoon a news alert rolled out from the LA Times with a story about some troubles with Dawn Hudson who...
It seems that women’s orginal work is being recognized this year by the WGA with two out of the five slots for original screenplay taken by women. Diablo Cody was nominated for Young Adult and...
The Producer’s Guild of America announced their nominees for top awards yesterday and four women are included on the list for the top honor which is the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award...
When I was in Paris in October you could not escape the posters for Maiwenn’s Polisse which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The film was made for about $7 million and it has already...
I love the diversity of categories. But where is the best woman director? UPDATE- the best womena director is the director of the best movie by women. I think we name the women because people need...
This film is clearly being better recevied overseas as a full body of work than it is here in the US. Here, Tilda Swinton has gathered some nominations and could be on her way to an Academy Award...
I like the Golden Globe show cause it’s always goofy. People drink, say funny stuff and you get TV and film people in one place. People who are awards watchers don’t take it too seriously...
Yesterday, the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild nominations were announced. Both The Help and Bridesmaids scored best ensembles nominations (which is their top award) which could be an indicator of...
This list reminds me that even though they have been upteen articles about how women are making great strides, there is still such a long way to go, because as I look at the lists I notice that...
The NY Film Critics Circle a group comprised of about 30 NY area critics and writers used twitter yesterday to announce their annual winners and not surprisingly women did not figure anywhere on the...
I just got back from a meeting and broke open the list of indie spirit nominees for 2012 and I am utterly dispirited at the lack of female voices throughout the categories. I am looking back at the...
The awards season began in earnest last evening with the IFP sponsored Gotham Awards. Here are the female winners: Breakthrough Director — Dee Rees — Pariah — hopefully this is...
One of the threads running through this year’s Oscar race is the single father who must pull things together for the sake of his kids. This is especially poignant in three films — Moneyball,...
Awards, Documentary, News
The Academy released it’s list of 15 films (out of 124) that made the short list for the best documentary feature. The list is sent out with production companies not the directors, so it’s hard...
This is the picture that has inspired a post I am working on on the movies directed by women in 2011. Again, I don’t know how they could have put this together without including one female...
On successive evenings, the Academy honored two women Oprah Winfrey and Vanessa Redgrave (as well as couple of guys) with two big awards. On Saturday night in LA, Oprah received the Jean Hersholt...
While most people get the impression from the media that Hollywood is a liberal town, there are many issues where Hollywood is in the dark ages. We all know them. One is casting women (and men) of...
63 films have made it onto the list to be considered for the 2012 Academy Awards. There was only one added since we last tracked about three weeks ago. That means a total of 10 films are directed by...
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