Awards
“Finding Farideh” Is Named Iran’s Submission for the International Feature Film Oscar
“Finding Farideh” is an Oscar hopeful. Co-directed by “From Iran, a Separation” collaborators Azadeh Mousavi and Kourosh Ataee, the documentary has been selected as Iran’s...
Octavia Spencer to Receive GLSEN’s 2019 Inspiration Award
The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has announced that Octavia Spencer will receive the Inspiration Award at this year’s GLSEN Respect Awards. For over 25 years, GLSEN has...
“Fleabag” Dominates TCA Awards
You know that feeling when you’re the only show to take home multiple prizes at the annual TCA Awards? Phoebe Waller-Bridge sure does. Her beloved dark comedy, “Fleabag,” was the...
Luisa Leschin Will Be Honored with Norman Lear Writer’s Award at Imagen Awards
Writer, playwright, producer, and actress Luisa Leschin has been named as this year’s recipient of the Imagen Awards’ annual Norman Lear Writer’s Award, Variety confirms. The honor...
Meryl Streep to Be Honored with the TIFF Tribute Actor Award
Meryl Streep is saying goodbye to “Big Little Lies” and hello to yet another statuette. Just days after the Season 2 finale of “Big Little Lies” comes word that Streep will...
Foreign-Language Oscar Picks: Algeria Selects Mounia Meddour’s “Papicha”
The 2020 foreign-language Oscar race is off to a promising start. Algeria is the first country to submit a feature for contention and it’s a woman-directed title, Mounia Meddour’s...
Emmy Nominations 2019: “Killing Eve,” “Fleabag,” “When They See Us,” & More
“Fleabag” is finally getting the recognition it deserves stateside. The exquisite second and final season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s dark comedy made an unexpectedly big impact on...
Jennifer Salke to Receive LGBTQ Visionary Award
Amazon Studio’s Head Jennifer Salke is “humbled and awed” by the streamer’s latest honor. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she’s set to accept the Visionary Award at...
Susan Meiselas Will Receive Kering’s First Women in Motion Photography Prize
Kering is recognizing women’s contributions to another male-dominated creative field. Best known for its Women in Motion program at Cannes — which celebrates women’s strides in...
Judith Helfand to Be Honored with San Francisco Jewish Film Fest’s Freedom of Expression Award
Documentary filmmaker and activist Judith Helfand is set to receive the Freedom of Expression Award at the 39th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF), a press release confirms. The award is...
Lily Tomlin to Receive Traverse City Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award
Lily Tomlin is returning to her hometown to collect an honor. The five-time Emmy winner is set to receive Traverse City Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Detroit. Tomlin is...
Elizabeth Banks Will Be the First Woman Director to Receive Pioneer of the Year Award
Elizabeth Banks is breaking another boundary. The mogul will be the first woman director to be honored with the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation’s (WRMPPF) Pioneer of the Year...
Jada Pinkett Smith to Receive MTV’s Trailblazer Award
Jada Pinkett Smith is heading from the red table to the MTV Movie and TV Awards. The “Red Table Talk” host and “Girls Trip” actress will receive the Trailblazer Award at the...
Ali Stroker, “Hadestown” Team, and More Make History at the 2019 Tony Awards
Last night’s 73rd Annual Tony Awards marked many firsts for women who are paving the way on Broadway, both onstage and off. The show was indicative that post-#MeToo, the course of history for...
Angela Chen Receives Inaugural AGBO/AFI Conservatory Development Grant
Angela Chen’s next project just received a major boost. The writer, director, editor, and producer has been named as the inaugural recipient of the AGBO/AFI Conservatory Development Grant, a...
Tayari Jones Wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction
American novelist Tayari Jones is this year’s recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She’s being recognized for “An American Marriage,” described by chair of judges...
AFI to Honor Lesli Linka Glatter
Lesli Linka Glatter is set to receive an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the American Film Institute (AFI). A press release announced that the prolific director will be recognized for her...
Charlize Theron to Receive American Cinematheque Award
Charlize Theron has been named the 2019 recipient of the American Cinematheque Award. A press release announced that the Oscar winner will be presented with the honor November 8 in Beverly Hills. The...
Jane Fonda Will Be Honored with BAFTA LA Britannia Award for Excellence in Film
Already a two-time BAFTA winner, Jane Fonda has been named as the 2019 recipient of BAFTA LA’s Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film. The honor is given in recognition of...
The Academy to Honor Lina Wertmüller and Geena Davis
The Academy is set to honor the first woman to receive an Oscar nomination for directing and an Oscar-winning trailblazer who pushed the conversation about gender equality in the entertainment...
Debra Granik to Receive Honor from Boston Society of Film Critics
Writer-director Debra Granik has been named as the inaugural receipt of the Boston Society of Film Critics’ (BSFC) Career Spotlight Award, an honor celebrating mid-career filmmakers. “Debra...
Louise Courvoisier’s “Mano a Mano” Takes Home Cannes Cinefondation Top Honor
Louise Courvoisier is leaving Cannes with a €15,000 grant (about $16,000 USD), the guarantee of having her debut feature screen at the fest, and the distinction of being named the first prize...
Cannes: Rebecca Zlotowski’s “An Easy Girl” Named Best French-Language Film at Directors’ Fortnight
Rebecca Zlotowski’s fourth feature has been honored at Cannes Film Festival. Her 2019 Directors’ Fortnight selection, “An Easy Girl,” won the sidebar’s prize for best...
Jokha Alharthi Makes History as the First Arabic Winner of the Man Booker International Prize
Jokha Alharthi is the recipient of this year’s Man Booker International Prize, making her the first Arab writer to collect the honor. BBC confirmed the news. The author already made history as...
“The Farewell” Writer-Director Lulu Wang to Receive Sundance’s Vanguard Award
Lulu Wang and “The Farewell” are collecting another honor in advance of the film’s release. Wang is set to receive Sundance Institute’s 2019 Vanguard Award, the Los Angeles...
Women Dominate Off-Broadway’s Obie Awards
Last night the American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice celebrated the best of Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, at the 64th Annual Obie Awards held at Terminal 5 in New York City. The Obies...
Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna Serner to Be Honored at Mill Valley Film Fest
The Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) is set to celebrate Anna Serner’s commitment to gender parity in the biz. According to a press release, Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, will...
Melina Matsoukas to Receive AFI’s Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal
Two-time Grammy winner, frequent Beyoncé collaborator, and “Insecure” director and exec producer Melina Matsoukas has been named as the 2019 recipient of the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni...
Amy Poehler, Issa Rae, and More Will Be Honored at Women In Film Annual Gala
Amy Poehler, Issa Rae, Elizabeth Debicki, and Cathy Schulman are heading to the 2019 Women In Film Annual Gala. According to a press release from Women In Film, Los Angeles (WIF LA), these ladies...
Tribeca 2019 Awards: “House of Hummingbird” and “Scheme Birds” Land Top Honors
The winners of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced, and two of the fest’s three highest honors have gone to women-directed films. Bora Kim’s coming-of-age drama...
Judith Light to Receive 2019 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Judith Light has been named as the recipient of the 2019 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. The “Transparent” star is being recognized for her “advocacy to end HIV/AIDS and her support...
Bentonville Film Festival to Honor “American Horror Story’s” Jamie Brewer
“American Horror Story’s” Jamie Brewer will be honored at the 2019 Bentonville Film Festival (BFF), Deadline confirms. The actress will receive the “See It, Be It” Award, given...
“Killing Eve” and “Hannah Gadsby: Nanette” Among Peabody Entertainment Winners
Favorites among both critics and fans, “Killing Eve” and “Hannah Gadsby: Nanette” have been awarded with a prestigious honor. Both are among the entertainment winners for the...
Peabody 2019 Documentary Honorees: “The Judge,” “The Apology,” & More
The documentary winners of the 2019 Peabody Awards have been revealed by Variety. Four of the eight titles are women-directed. Directed by Liz Garbus (“What Happened, Miss Simone?”),...
Sandra Oh, “The Good Fight,” Leah Remini, & More Among 2019 Gracie Award Winners
The outpouring of love for “Killing Eve” is showing no signs of slowing down. The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation has announced the winners of the 2019 Gracie Awards, given in...
Jackie Sibblies Drury Wins Drama Pulitzer for “Fairview”
For the third straight year, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama has been awarded to a woman playwright. The Hollywood Reporter confirms Jackie Sibblies Drury won the Pulitzer for “Fairview.”...
Kimberly Peirce to Receive Artemis Film Fest’s Unsung Heroine Award
The Artemis Women in Action Film Festival is set to honor Kimberly Peirce. The “Boys Don’t Cry” director will be presented with the Artemis Action Unsung Heroine Award at the...
Peabody Award Nominations: “Killing Eve,” Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette,” & More
“Killing Eve” is up for a major honor stateside. The BBC America spy thriller dominates this year’s BAFTA TV nominations, and now word comes that the Sandra Oh-starrer is in the...
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s “One Child Nation” Wins Grand Jury Award at Full Frame 2019
“One Child Nation” has taken home another Grand Jury prize. Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s Sundance winner was presented with the Reva and David Logan Grand Jury Award at Full Frame...
Beyoncé Wins Entertainer of the Year Prize at NAACP Image Awards
Beyoncé took home the top prize at Saturday’s NAACP Image Awards. The musical artist, activist, and feminist icon won Entertainer of the Year, Deadline confirms. The “Lemonade”...
Rita Moreno to Be Honored with Peabody Career Achievement Award
Hopefully this makes “One Day at a Time’s” cancellation sting a little less: the Peabody Awards are celebrating star Rita Moreno’s “indelible mark” on media. She...
“Killing Eve” Dominates BAFTA TV Nominations
“Killing Eve’s” highly anticipated second season is just around the corner, but it’s Season 1 of the spy thriller that’s getting attention today. BAFTA has announced its...
SXSW Audience Award Winners Include “For Sama” & “Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins”
The 2019 edition of the SXSW Film Festival wrapped up over the weekend, and now the fest has announced this year’s Audience Award winners. Taking home the honor in the Documentary Feature...
SXSW 2019 Awards: “For Sama” and “Alice” Win Top Prizes
Women directed 60 percent of the films screening in Competition at SXSW, and lo and behold, they dominated the awards. Women-helmed pics took home the Feature Film Grand Jury Awards in the Narrative...
Elle Fanning to Receive Maverick Spirit Award from Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival
At just 20 years old, Elle Fanning already has over 50 credits to her name. The prolific actress and producer is set to be honored by Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival for her ever-expanding...
Julie Andrews to Receive Venice Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Julie Andrews is heading from Atlantis to Venice. The Oscar-winning “Mary Poppins” actress, who last appeared in “Aquaman,” is set to receive the Golden Lion for lifetime...
Margarethe von Trotta Will Be Celebrated with Lifetime Honor at German Film Awards
Margarethe von Trotta kicked off her career as an actress, but the trailblazer is best known for her work as a feminist director. The influential German filmmaker is set to receive a lifetime...
Variety Power of Women: New York to Recognize Taraji P. Henson, Bette Midler, & More
Variety has named the honorees of its sixth Power of Women: New York luncheon. Taraji P. Henson, Bette Midler, country music artist Kacey Musgraves, journalist and anchor Christiane Amanpour, and...
Marianna Palka’s “Egg” Among Women in the Arts & Media Coalition’s Collaboration Awardees
The Women in the Arts & Media Coalition has named the honorees of its 2019 Collaboration Awards. Set to be held March 30 — Support Women Artists Now Day — at New York...
“Made in NY” Women’s Film, TV & Theatre Fund Presents $1.5M to 63 Projects
The first round of “Made in NY” Women’s Film, TV & Theatre Fund grants have been awarded, a press release has announced. New York Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and the Mayor’s Office...
CherryPicks to Award Inaugural Female First Feature Prize at SXSW
CherryPicks, a review aggregator site and digital brand for women in film criticism, will be honoring a debut film from a female director at SXSW 2019. According to a press release, CherryPicks and...