#Awards
Lesley Visser Will Make History as First Woman to Receive Sports Emmys’ Lifetime Achievement Award
For nearly half a century, Lesley Visser has reported on the sidelines of some of the most high-profile sporting events, and now she’s further cementing her own legacy in history books....
Unjoo Moon & Beanie Feldstein Among Athena Awardees, Fest Announces Athena List Winners & More
The 10th annual Athena Film Festival (AFF) kicks off in just over two weeks and — adding to the excitement — the fest has unveiled its 2020 awardees, the winners of the Athena List, and...
Sharon Choi, Bong Joon-ho’s Interpreter, Is Working on a Film About Awards Season
Sharon Choi has been a staple on the awards circuit in recent months, taking the stage to accept award after award, most notably at Sunday’s Oscars. Choi has been serving as...
Sundance: Women Sweep Major Directing Awards
The 2020 edition of Sundance Film Festival has come to a close. An awards ceremony was held Saturday in Park City, and “of the 28 prizes awarded … to 25 films – comprising the work of...
Quote of the Day: Cynthia Erivo on Oscars’ Lack of Inclusivity & the Roles She Wants for Black Women
Despite the success and critical acclaim of films with racially inclusive casts this past year — “The Farewell,” “Hustlers,” and “Parasite” among them...
Heather Young’s “Murmur” Wins Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance
“Murmur” has been named as the winner of Slamdance Film Festival’s Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize. The fest’s awards were announced at a ceremony held Thursday, Deadline...
Director Ulrike Ottinger Will Be Honored at Berlinale 2020
Ulrike Ottinger will soon have another Berlinale award to go with Special Teddy she won at the film festival in 2012. The filmmaker and artist is set to receive the Berlinale Camera at the...
Lena Waithe Will Receive Palm Springs Film Fest’s Creative Impact in Producing Award
Lena Waithe has more to celebrate. Her feature screenwriting debut, “Queen & Slim,” hit theaters last month, and now Variety reports that she’ll be honored with the Creative...
Women and Hollywood, WIF LA, and NYWIFT Launch #VoteForWomen Awards Campaign
What if awards ballots featured all women candidates in every category, instead of the usual one or zero? What if women directors, writers, DPs, editors, and other crew members were the subject of...
“Little Women, “The Farewell,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” & More Score Critics’ Choice Nods
The Critics’ Choice Award nominations are in — and they’ve bested the Golden Globes. While the latter nominated zero women in the directing category, “Little Women”...
IDA Documentary Awards Winners: “For Sama,” “American Factory,” & More
“For Sama” took home the top honor at this year’s IDA Documentary Awards, held Saturday in LA. Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts received the Best Feature Documentary Award for the...
Heidi Hassan & Patricia Pérez Fernández’s “In a Whisper” Wins Top Prize at IDFA 2019
The 2019 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which concluded this past weekend, featured the highest ratio of women filmmakers in the fest’s 31-year history. Fittingly, this...
Jennifer Lopez to Be Honored with Spotlight Award at Palm Springs Film Festival
Jennifer Lopez is building momentum on the awards circuit. Less than a week ago the multi-hyphenate received an Indie Spirit Award nomination for “Hustlers,” and now the Palm Springs...
Guest Post: How I Made the Switch from Working in Finance to Producing an Oscar Contender
Guest Post by Alexa Khan After graduating from college, I embarked on a very successful and lucrative career in finance — yet I felt stuck in life. Although I loved the sense of accomplishment,...
Renée Zellweger to Be Honored at Palm Springs Film Fest
Renée Zellweger’s been a frontrunner in the Oscar race since “Judy’s” world premiere at Telluride in August. Her performance in the Judy Garland biopic has already earned her...
Sundance Institute Selects 2020 Momentum Fellows, Announces Inaugural Launch Grant Fund Recipients
Sundance Institute has chosen eight underrepresented filmmakers for its second Momentum Fellowship, and four women filmmakers for its inaugural Launch Grant Fund, a press release has announced. The...
Esta Spalding, Mary Young Leckie, & Alison Duke Among WIFT-Toronto’s 2019 Crystal Awardees
Women in Film & Television – Toronto (WIFT-T) will celebrate writers, producers, executives, and activists alike at the 32nd Crystal Awards Gala. The advocacy group for women in Canadian...
Quote of the Day: Mindy Kaling Calls the Women of Hollywood “Gate Crashers”
Mindy Kaling delivered a powerful call to action at Elle’s 2019 Women in Hollywood event, held Monday in LA. While accepting an award, the “Late Night” screenwriter and star urged...
BFI London Film Fest Winners Include “Atlantics” and “White Riot”
“Atlantics” just snagged another prestigious honor. Mati Diop’s refugee crisis drama about star-crossed lovers won the prize for best debut feature at the BFI London Film Festival,...
Submit Your Short for the Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award
The Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award is accepting submissions. Named for the human rights activist and philanthropist Eva Haller, the honor recognizes short films telling women’s...
Laura Baumeister’s “Daughter of Rage” Will Be Nicaragua’s First Woman-Directed Fiction Feature
Laura Baumeister made a major mark at this year’s San Sebastián International Film Festival. Not only did the filmmaker win the €20,000 (about $21,800 USD) EFADs-CAACI Europe-Latin America...
Zurich Film Festival’s 2019 Edition Includes a Record Number of Women Directors
The 15th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) will be its most female-friendly to date. This year’s edition of the fest features a record number of films by women. According to a press release from ZFF,...
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...
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...
Cannes 2019 Winners Include “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Atlantics,” and “For Sama”
Trailblazer Mati Diop has taken home Cannes Film Festival’s second-most prestigious prize. The French-Senegalese director made history as the first black female filmmaker to screen a feature in...
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...
Alma Har’el’s “Honey Boy” Gets a Release Date
“Honey Boy” just got an awards-friendly release date. Amazon Studios will release the Alma Har’el-directed drama November 8. Deadline confirmed the news. Written by Disney Channel alum...
Nantucket Film Festival Announces All-Female Lineup for 2019 Screenwriters Tribute
The Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) is celebrating women scribes. The fest announced an all-female slate of honorees and focus for the 2019 Screenwriters Tribute, one of NFF’s tentpole...
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...
Quote of the Day: Oprah Talks Empowerment and Opportunity
Oprah Winfrey has delivered yet another inspirational speech, this time at The Hollywood Reporter’s first-ever Empowerment in Entertainment gala. Accepting the inaugural Empowerment in...
Chicken & Egg Award Winners and (Egg)celerator Lab Participants Announced
Chicken & Egg Pictures has confirmed the 2019 recipients of the Chicken & Egg Award (formerly the Breakthrough Filmmaker Award) and the selected titles for the (Egg)celerator Lab (formerly...
Glasgow Film Fest 2019: Over Half of the Films Up For the Audience Award Are Women-Directed
The Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has announced its 2019 lineup and — in news that’s most welcome considering the Oscars failed to nominate a woman director again — most of the films...
“The Favourite” Leads 2019 BAFTA Nominations, Best Director Category Features No Women
The 2019 BAFTA film nominations are in and Olivia Colman-starrer “The Favourite” leads the back with 12 nominations. The dark comedy sees Colman playing a fragile queen at the center of a...
Over 50 Percent of Documentary Features in the Oscar Race are Women-Directed
The Oscar race is heating up. Just 15 films remain in the running for the Documentary Feature category for the 91st Academy Awards. Over 160 films were originally submitted for consideration. Eight...
Sudabeh Mortezai’s “Joy” Wins Best Film at Marrakech Fest
Sudabeh Mortezai has nabbed another festival prize for her second feature, “Joy.” Less than two months after it took BFI London Film Festival’s top prize, Variety confirms the sex...
“The Favourite” Nabs Record 10 BIFA Awards, Continues to Reign Over the Box Office
“The Favourite” revolves around the manipulations and betrayals of Queen Anne’s court, but it’s inspiring a lot of love and loyalty from audiences and awards committees. The...
BIFA Holding Mandatory Unconscious Bias Training Ahead of 2018 Awards
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) is addressing its own prejudices. Screen Daily reports that the organization is requiring its voters to complete unconscious bias training before its 2018...
Salma Hayek to Be Honored with Franca Sozzani Award at Venice Film Fest
Salma Hayek is set to receive an award for her work on and off the screen. The Oscar-nominated actress will be honored with the Franca Sozzani Award at Venice International Film Festival, WWD...
Vanessa Redgrave to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Venice Film Fest
Vanessa Redgrave is set to receive a major honor from the Venice Film Festival. The British actress will be awarded with its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Variety confirms. In a statement...
Academy Invites 928 New Members, 49% Are Women and 38% POC
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited a record 928 people to join its ranks. As Variety reports, the Academy’s list of invitees has been growing steadily for three years....
BAFTA Introduces New Diversity Criteria for 2019 Film Awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced new rules for films competing for the BAFTA Film Awards’ Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut by a British...
Mariska Hargitay Applauds #MeToo in Monte Carlo TV Fest Award Speech
Mariska Hargitay was awarded the Monte Carlo Television Festival’s Crystal Nymph Award on Friday and the “Law & Order: SVU” star used the occasion to commend the #MeToo...
Sally Potter to Be Honored with FIPRESCI 93 Platinum Award
Sally Potter will receive the FIPRESCI 93 Platinum award at the Transatlantyk Festival, ScreenDaily confirms. The Polish fest will also screen five of the British writer-director’s films in its...
“Americanah” Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wins 2018 PEN Pinter Prize
Renowned author, feminist, and speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is this year’s recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize. As The Guardian reports, the honor, named after the late author Harold Pinter,...
Jane Fonda to Be Honored with France’s Lumière Award
Oscar-winning actress, activist, and fitness icon Jane Fonda can add Lumière Award recipient to her stacked résumé. France’s Institut Lumière will recognize the “Grace and Frankie”...
Kamila Shamsie’s “Home Fire” Wins the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Kamila Shamsie’s “Home Fire” has been named this year’s recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Guardian confirms. The prestigious honor recognizes the best...
“Eighth Grade” and “Half the Picture” Win Big at Sundance London
Female-led films swept the awards at this year’s edition of Sundance Film Festival: London. Coming-of-age comedy “Eighth Grade” scored the Audience Favourite Award and female...
Parkland Drama Teacher Melody Herzfeld to Be Honored at Tony Awards
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drama teacher Melody Herzfeld, who survived the February 14 shooting in Parkland, Florida, will receive an education award at the Tonys on June 10, The New York...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Receive 2018 Mark Twain Prize
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is set to accept yet another honor. The eight-time Emmy winner has been named the recipient of this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Deadline confirms. The...
The 2018 National Directors Fellowship Recipients Are All Women
The National Directors Fellowship (NDF), an 18-month program that provides training and mentorship to stage directors, has announced its 2018 participants — and all five of them are women. Per...
Lena Waithe to Be Honored with Trailblazer Award at MTV Movie & TV Awards
“I am tired of white folks telling my stories,” said Lena Waithe in her recent Vanity Fair cover story. The actress, writer, and producer made history last year when she became the first...