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Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong’o, Nicki Minaj Among BET Awards Winners
Beyoncé was the big winner at last night’s BET Awards, where she was named Best Female R&B/Pop Artist, won Best Collaboration (with husband Jay Z for “Drunk in Love”), and nabbed the...
Crosspost: What’s It Going to Take for Gender Equality to Come to Hollywood?
Crossposted with permission from Awards Daily. The WGA diversity report, released on April 15, delivered this rather devastating news about women screenwriters in Hollywood: While women and other...
The Big O: Which of the 3 Best-Picture Frontrunners Is Female-Friendliest?
Hear that “ouch”? It’s the sound of frustrated pundits pulling their hair as they attempt to divine the outcome of the Oscars’ best-picture race this year. Those of us who put our reps on...
The Big O: Will Audiences (and Oscar Voters) Surrender to 12 Years a Slave?
Can movie audiences handle the truth — especially when it’s unpleasant to sit through? That is one of the main questions surrounding the widely praised 12 Years a Slave. Consider there are...
The Women of 12 Years a Slave
As a child my mother, an anthropologist, informed me that my great uncle’s mother disappeared from the shores of Lake Victoria or Nam Lolwe, as we call it, when he was a boy. My great great aunt...
Sarah Paulson Talks 12 Years a Slave and Being a Woman in Hollywood
Sarah Paulson is excited about this year’s Oscar race. “There are probably 10 women who could be nominated for Best Actress. When do we ever have that?” says the actress. “Usually it’s...