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Dr. Stacy L. Smith & the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Launch Website Exploring Oscar History

Dr. Stacy L Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative have launched The Inclusion List, a new initiative that showcases inclusion in entertainment. “Who says hashtag activism can’t create...

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Oscar Nominations: “Women Talking,” Michelle Yeoh, & More

Women took home the honors for Best Director at the last two editions of the Academy Awards. Now, after riding the high of seeing Jane Campion and Chloé Zhao take home the biggest honor in their...

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Academy Announces Inclusion Standards for Oscars Eligibility

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is further addressing its inclusivity problem. The Academy has announced a “fresh set of measures aimed at boosting representation both within...

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WMC Report: Women Make Up 30 Percent of Non-Acting 2020 Oscar Nominees

The good news: there are more women nominated in non-acting categories at the Oscars this year (56, or 30 percent of all non-acting nominees) than in 2019 (51, 25 percent). The bad news: 30 percent...

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2020 Oscar Noms: Women Shut Out of Directing Race (Yet Again) But Clean Up in Doc Category

The Academy Awards is celebrating its 92nd edition this year. Nominees for the biggest awards show of the season just dropped, and women directors have been excluded from the best director category...

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Oscars: International Feature Category Receives 93 Submissions, 28 Directed by Women

The Academy has confirmed which films have been submitted to the International Feature category for the 2020 Academy Awards. Of 93 titles from around the globe, 28 are directed or co-directed by...

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Study: Women Represent 25 Percent of Non-Acting 2019 Oscar Nominees

Another year, another Oscars ceremony dominated by male nominees. The Women’s Media Center (WMC) has released its annual study of gender representation among the non-acting Academy Award...

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New Ad Campaign Celebrates Women Directors, Brings Attention to Awards Season’s Gender Gap

2018 saw the release of many acclaimed films from women directors, including Chloé Zhao’s “The Rider,” Debra Granik’s “Leave No Trace,” and Marielle...

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Donna Gigliotti to Produce the Oscars

The Academy Awards has an Oscar-winning producer on board. Donna Gigliotti will produce the upcoming 91st Oscars, a press release has announced. A Best Picture winner for “Shakespeare in...

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The Academy Launches Action: The Women’s Initiative, Events Planned in LA and London

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences — the body behind the Oscars — has a famously bad track record when it comes to recognizing female filmmakers: just one woman, Kathryn...

Features

Why “Carol” Failed to Become the Lesbian ‘Brokeback’

Well, that’s that. Lesbians will not have their “Brokeback Mountain” this year after all. That’s because “Carol,” perhaps the most critically acclaimed mainstream film of all time...

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The Happy Girl vs. The Cool Girl: Why People Don’t Like Anne Hathaway

People, especially women, really don’t like Anne Hathaway. This isn’t something that just started since Hathaway won her Oscar for Les Miserables last week–it’s been long...

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Senate Drops Zero Dark Thirty Investigation

A day after the Academy Awards and the essential shut out of Zero Dark Thirty (except for an award for Sound Editing), the Senate Intelligence Committee announced that they were dropping the...

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Highlighting the Women Nominated for 2013 Academy Awards

We predict the winners this weekend will be a bunch of dudes since that's mostly who is nominated.  But we wanted to make sure you knew all the names of the women who are nominated...

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Good and Bad Surprises Come with 2013 Oscar Nominations

Oscar nominations were announced this morning and per usual there were the surprises, both of the good and bad variety. Nine year old Quvenzhané Wallis becomes the youngest Best Actress...

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3 of 15 Documentaries on Oscar Shortlist Directed by Women

Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences released the 15 films on the short list in the Documentary feature category for this year’s Oscars. Only three films on the shortlist are...

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Guest Post: 2012’s Best Actress Race: A History of Inequality

Capote. Ray. Malcolm X. Nixon. Milk. Ali. Chaplin. Do these ring a bell? They are the names of famous politicians, filmmakers, activists, authors and athletes who inspired biopics that were...

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