#Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow to Direct “Aurora” for Netflix
Days after Jane Campion seized the Oscar for Best Director, the first woman to ever win the prize has lined up her next project: Kathryn Bigelow is set to helm “Aurora.” Like...
The Biggest Moments of the Decade for Women in Film
The fight for gender equality and inclusion in show business is very much one step forward, two steps back. Just consider the 2020 Golden Globe nominations: even though there were a bunch of great...
Women Attain Their Highest Level of Leadership at the Academy
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....
Hollywood’s Glass Ceiling: Why Doesn’t the Film Industry Trust Women?
Here’s a piece I wrote for CNN’s Leading Women section: It would be wonderful to say that in 2013 things were looking up for women in Hollywood — both onscreen and behind the...
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...
Standing Up and For Women
When I first started Women and Hollywood I knew that I wanted to the site to support women and their roles and accomplishments in pop culture but I really did not know exactly what that meant. Now,...
Cross Post: Uppity Women: How Maya and Kathryn Bigelow Continue to Threaten the Status Quo
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” — Eleanor Roosevelt If you want to win an Oscar for Best Picture now, make an...
Michael Moore: Zero Dark Thirty is a Movie About ‘How We Don’t Listen to Women.’
Always controversial and rarely quiet political filmmaker and author, Michael Moore, has spoken out in defense of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. Moore took to Facebook (and Time.com),...
Kathryn Bigelow Covers Time and Appears on The Colbert Report
Kathryn Bigelow went on The Colbert Report for one of her most candid interviews yet. She was set to appear on the show weeks ago but admitted she had been "spooked" by the Senate...
Kathryn Bigelow Wants You to Support Women Working in National Security
Some criticism against Kathryn Bigelow during The Hurt Locker era was lobbed against Bigelow’s statements that filmmaking for her isn’t about breaking gender roles. However, as Jessica...
Kathryn Bigelow Speaks Out About Zero Dark Thirty Criticism to Los Angeles Times
Kathryn Bigelow has decided to address the torture criticism surrounding Zero Dark Thirty in a personally written response to her critics in the LA Times. And it’s a must read. Bigelow...
New York Times Says ‘Female Directors Gain Ground, Slowly.’ Should We Wait That Long?
The great Carrie Rickey published a piece in the New York Times this past weekend with the depressing headline ‘Female Directors Gain Ground, Slowly’. The piece reported that in 2012, by...
Zero Dark Thirty Scores Number 1 at Box Office, Sony’s Co-Chair Speaks Out on Torture Remarks
The Zero Dark Thirty torture conversation shows no sign of abating. Sony’s co-chairman Amy Pascal responded to claims from AMPAS member, actor David Clennon (Miles from Thirtysomething),...
Thoughts on the Golden Globes – Girls Literally Ruled
Last night, I ended up watching the Golden Globes in real time (with the commercials too.) The reason why that was possible was because of twitter and because I was having such a good time watching...
Critics and Film Lovers Respond to Kathryn Bigelow Snub
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...
2013 BAFTA Nominees Include Kathryn Bigelow, Judi Dench, Lynne Ramsay
On the heels of learning that 4 out of the 5 nominated for BAFTA’s Rising Star Award are women, comes the full list of the 2013 BAFTA awards nominees. Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Zero...
The Academy Snubs Kathryn Bigelow for History Making Second Best Director Nomination
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...
Kathryn Bigelow Nominated for DGA Award
The Directors Guild of America announced their nominees for film today. Kathryn Bigelow was nominated for Zero Dark Thirty. Bigelow previously won the DGA in 2009 for The Hurt Locker and was the...
Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty Win Big at EDA Awards
Zero Dark Thirty has swept, yet again, another awards ceremony, this time around at the EDA Awards, from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Bigelow received the award for best director, Mark...
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal Defend Film at NY Film Critics Circle Award Ceremony
Over the last several weeks the steady drumbeat against Zero Dark Thirty has grown louder and louder. There's been the discussion that Boal was a bully and Bigelow defered to him on the set...
Senate Committee to Investigate Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty is a film that has had its fair share of controversy questioning its politics, blatant sexism toward director Kathryn Bigelow and whether or not the film is pro-torture. Next to...
2012 The Year in Review
We took a look back on the news for women in and around Hollywood in 2012 and here are the topics we think resonated this past year. Let us know what you think and if we missed any big news of...
Cross Post: Heroines of Cinema: An A-Z of Women in Film in 2012
Since this column began in August, it has profiled a wide variety of women – fictional and real, contemporary and historic – whose achievements in film have been considered worthy of...
Sexism Pushes Its Way Into the Oscar Campaign
In the last week the screws have really been tightening in this bizarre world of Oscar campaigning, and Kathryn Bigelow and her film Zero Dark Thirty are the recipients of what is referred to a...
Women’s Film Critics Circle Name Zero Dark Thirty Best Movie of 2012, Ava DuVernay Wins Josephine Baker Award
The Women’s Film Critics Circle have announced their 2012 picks. And as she continues to sweep the awards circuit, Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty won several awards including Best Movie...
Final Trailer for Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty hits theatres in NY and LA tomorrow. In anticipation here is the final trailer for the must talked about (even before it is released) film. I got the chance to see Zero...
Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere Wins Big at The African-American Film Critics Association Awards
The African-American Film Critics Association announced their best of 2012 yesterday. Leading with 4 awards is Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere. Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty was...
She Who Will Not Be Ignored
My fellow blogger Sasha Stone has another great piece (how do you write so much great stuff Sasha?) over on her blog Awards Daily called Female Trouble: Why Powerful Women Threaten Hollywood. ...
Golden Globe Noms Out But Who Cares We’ve Got a Video With Tina and Amy
I kind of think that the awards will be the after story of this year's Golden Globe ceremony which is scheduled for Janaury 13. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are already acting as awesome golden...
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics and AFI Announce Picks of 2012
We are officially in the center of awards season and yesterday both the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association and the American Film Institute announced their winners in film (AFI also...
Zero Dark Thirty and Emmanuelle Riva Win Big with Critics Over the Weekend
The year end awards keep rolling in. The Boston Film Critics, New York Film Critics Online and Los Angeles Film Critics all announced their winners over the weekend. Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark...
Zero Dark Thirty Wins Big with the National Board of Review
Kathryn Bigelow is on a roll. After receiving Best Director, Best Film and Best Cinematography (for Greig Fraser) for Zero Dark Thirty from the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday, the film...
Sexist Quote of the Day by Bret Easton Ellis
In a ploy to make himself relevant again after being turned down to write the screeplay for 50 Shades of Grey, Bret Easton Ellis took to twitter and slammed director Kathryn Bigelow. Here's the...
Kathryn Bigelow Becomes First Woman to Win Two Best Director Nods from New York Film Critics Circle
Yesterday, the New York Film Critics Circle, a group of 35 critics (but just 8 women) named Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty the best film of the year. Bigelow also picked up the best...
The Hollywood Reporter’s Director Roundtable Omits Women
Yesterday was a good day with the Sundance numbers news. But we were reminded not to get overexcited about those numbers since women directors only made up 17% of the worldwide competition and...
Kathryn Bigelow Talks Making Zero Dark Thirty with Martha Raddatz
Kathryn Bigelow talked with Martha Raddatz of ABC News about the making of her new film Zero Dark Thirty. Bigelow and screenwriter, Mark Boal, discussed how the project originally focusing...
Will Kathryn Bigelow Be a Two Time Best Director Nominee?
Right after Thanksgiving Kathryn Bigelow's long awaited follow-up to her Oscar award winning film The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty (which I will see next week) started screening and the word has...