Awards
The Academy Picks Family Guy Creator Seth MacFarlane to Host Oscars
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...
The Male Dominated Emmy Awards
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...
The Academy Names All Male Recipient List for the Governors Awards
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...
Producer Janet Yang to Receive 2012 Asian American Media Award
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...
Approaching Peak Vagina: Lena Dunham and Amy Poehler Score Rare Female Double Emmy Writing Nominations
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...
Inspirational Video of the Day: Pat Summitt Receiving the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the ESPYs
What an amazing story. P.S. — the narrator is Reese Witherspoon
Charlotte Rampling to Receive Honor at Locarno Film Festival
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...
Academy Names 176 New Members
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...
Cross-Post: Oscar Flashback — Nora Ephron
“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...
Why is Clybourne Park on Broadway and not Water by the Spoonful?
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...
Cross- Post: After Audra McDonald’s Historic Tony Award Win, Will Hollywood Finally Fully Embrace Her Talent?
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...
Jenna Elfman to Host Women in Film 2012 Crystal + Lucy Awards June 12
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...
TV Critics Organizations Roll Out Their Nominees
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,...
Indiewire Wins Webby for Best Movie and Film Site
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...
Tony Nominations: Good for Female Directors, Horrible for Female Writers
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...
Oscar Thoughts: Boys, Boys and More Boys
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...
Cross Post: Oiling the Oscar Machine
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....
To The Academy: Consider the Women
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...
Oscar Watch: Looking at Gender and the Oscars
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...
Quote of the Day on the Oscars and How Women Get Screwed
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...
The LA Times Confirms What We Already Know — The Academy is Old, White and Male
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...
We Need to Talk About Kevin Wins Best Film at the Evening Standard Awards
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...
The Help Wins Big at the SAG Awards
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...
Lauren Greenfield and Ava Duvernay Win Top Directing Honors at Sundance
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...
Maiwenn’s Poliss Scores 13 Cesar Nominations Including Best Director and Best Picture
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...
Why Is Oscar Blue
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”...
The Oscar Noms: It Sucks to Be a Female Filmmaker Part 2
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...
Pariah Scores Both NAACP Image Awards and GLAAD Media Awards Noms
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...
Agnieszka Holland is the Only Remaining Female Director with a Shot at the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
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...
Lynne Ramsay Scores BAFTA Directing Nomination
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...
How Will the New Documentary Rules Affect Women Filmmakers?
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...
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award Winners
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:...
The DGA Nominees — Need I Say More?
Directors Guild Feature Film Nominees Include Michel Hazanavicius for ‘The Artist’ (Hollywood Reporter)
Is Dawn Hudson in Trouble at the Academy?
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...
Diablo Cody, Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig Get Nominated for WGA Awards
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...
Four Women Producers Included in List for PGA’s Top Honor — Kathleen Kennedy Nominated for Two Awards
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...
Maiwenn Included on Best Director List for France’s Lumiere Awards
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...
Women’s Film Critics Circle Award Winners
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...
We Need to Talk About Kevin Gets Five Nominations from the London Critics Film Circle
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...
The Golden Globe Nominations: The Women
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...
The Help and Bridesmaids Score Screen Actors Guild Nominations
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...
AFI Picks Top TV Shows and Films of the Year
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...
Streep and Chastain Only Women Recognized by NY Film Critics Circle
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...
Where are the Women at the Indie Spirit Nominations?
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...
Gotham Award Winners: The Women
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...
Cross-Post: Oscars 2011: Single Fathers and the Vanishing Mothers
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,...
The Documentary Short List: The Women
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...
Sexism Watch: The Hollywood Reporter Directors Roundtable
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...
Academy Fetes Oprah Winfrey and Vanessa Redgrave
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...
A Woman Takes Over the Academy
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...
Final List for Foreign Films Being Submitted for Oscar Consideration
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...