News, Women Directors
Shonda Rhimes and Dee Rees will adapt Isabel Wilkerson’s bestselling historical book “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” for FX. Rees will write the...
News, Television
ABC picked up two women-centric pilots on Monday — new dramas from Shondaland and Fake Empire. The Catch is the latest offering from the prolific executive producers of Grey’s Anatomy,...
Awards, News
While all 20 acting nominees competing for an Oscar thisyear are white — for the first time in nearly 20 years — twowomen of color made history at the SAG Awards last night for their...
Just fifteen years after the premiere of HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Shonda Rhimes’ first credited feature screenplay, the Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal creator will receive the...
Features, News, Women Directors
Earlier this week, Shonda Rhimes thanked her foremothers while receiving the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award for creating cracks in the glass ceiling so she could get through when the ABC VIP began...
News
It’s an unlikely statement, even a confusing one. “I haven’t broken through any glass ceilings,” announced Shonda Rhimes upon receiving the Hollywood Reporter’s Sherry Lansing Award,...
We hope Shonda Rhimes has a dozen fireplaces in her home, because the awards to place on her mantelpiece just keep coming. The latest is The Hollywood Reporter’s 2014 Sherry Lansing Award,...
As TV’s most successful female showrunner — and TV’s most successful black showrunner — there are a lot of questions Shonda Rhimes is sick of being asked. Sometimes well-intended,...
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