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2016 won’t go down as the most homogeneous (i.e., exclusionary) year in recent Oscar history. Three female-centric films ("Brooklyn," "Room" and...
Features
Over the holiday break, I read many of the Oscar predictions that litter not just the trades but the various general interest "papers of record" this time of year. But I hardly saw a single...
The following was originally posted on composer Michael Levine‘s Facebook page. It has been slightly edited below. Recently, I went to a screening of a 30-minute film called...
What does a black leading lady have to do to win an Academy Award again? Considering there seems to be a renaissance in black cinema, you would think the timing would be perfect. But you would be...
News
Wadjda, directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour, the first film directed by a woman from Saudi Arabia opened in limited release this past weekend. The film made $40,419 after screening in just three theaters...
Angelina Jolie and Angela Lansbury will be receiving awards at the Academy’s 5th Annual Governors Awards. Lansbury will receive an Honorary award. The Honorary Award is given to honor those...
Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Big O, Women & Hollywood’s new Oscar column. Not that there is any lack of web outlets that engage in prognostication and updates on the status of...
Friday in August usually mean boring, but not today. After a big week when the Academy elected its first female African American leader, more news was made this morning with the announcement...
Yesterday marked the first day of Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs’ tenure and she made the press rounds to talk about her priorities and goals for her new job. As we know, she is...
It’s literally a new day at the Academy. The Board of Governors last night voted Cheryl Boone Isaacs an African American woman as its leader. She is the first African American to hold...
Earlier this week, the WGA and Academy paid tribute to the late, great Fay Kanin. Kanin passed away in March at the age of 95. Kanin was a woman of many achievements–writing for television and...
Each year the Academy votes in members of its Governors Board. The board members represents each of the Academy’s 16 branches which includes the newly created costume designers branch....
Last week, the Academy sent out 276 new invitations to join its ranks, the highest amount in recent years. (178 were invited in 2011; 135 in 2010; 134 in 2009; and 105 in 2008.) What you...
While we here at Women and Hollywood had many problems with the Oscars executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the Academy is very pleased that the show was able to bring in that coveted...
I thought I was done with all the Oscar postscripts but there is still have one more thing to write about. I am going to take a mulligan on not getting to this sooner, but I was off last week,...
I left town the morning after the Oscars on a much needed vacation. While I wasn’t writing last week (and a big thanks goes out to Women and Hollywood writer Kerensa Cadenas for taking...
With everything surrounding this year’s Oscars there has been a wealth of really great commentary out there. Martha Lauzen for The Wrap gets it spot on in her article: What did the latest...
With Seth McFarlane hosting the Oscars, we here at Women and Hollywood weren’t expecting much. But the sexist, racist, homophobic and completely unfunny spree that McFarlane hosted was even...
It's Academy Awards week and the ballots are closed. While we don't know the winners yet, one thing we know for sure is that no women have again been nominated for best director. This...
Ten years ago, when I began work on the short documentary that would become Kings Point, issues of aging weren’t really a part of the public discussion. In a way, that helped me: because they...
After Kathryn Bigelow’s name wasn’t announced for Best Director during yesterday’s Oscar nominations, film and entertainment critics as well as movie lovers were outraged causing a...
I sit here ruminating, fulminating and seething, thinking about how Kathryn Bigelow could have been overlooked for a second best director nomination. I'm pretty sure the people who thought...
Oscar nominations close tomorrow (there has been trouble with the on-line voting) and one woman hoping to make the cut is Ann Dowd who has already received accolades for her performance in the creepy...
On Friday the Academy released the list of the 282 films that have qualified for best picture. Animated, Documentaries and Foreign language films are also eligible for best picture if they meet...
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