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The Post Oscar Debate on Kathyn Bigelow and Gender
This past week there have been a lot of stories looking at Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win from a variety of perspectives. The fact that we are even having these conversations at all is in itself a huge and gigantic (and every other adjective I can throw ...more
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Nominate your female Sports Hero
March is Women’s History Month and there is no better way to honor female
athletes than by nominating them for one of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 2010 award programs.
Current open nominations include:
Sportswoman of the Year Award. Every year,...more
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Women & Hollywood: Women to Watch
What a great idea. The people who run the Cultural Leadership Programme in the UK know that there is a leadership disparity between men and women in the arts. Lots of times the issue is that the women are just not visible enough in order to get that n...more
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The Time Has Come
Those were the words that Barbra Streisand uttered when she announced Kathryn Bigelow’s name as the winner of the best director Oscar. The moment came at the end of a long and boring show that featured many male winners in most categories, but DAMN, s...more
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This is a Moment of a Lifetime- Bigelow in Her Own Words
Here’s Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar speech and backstage comments:
This really is… There’s no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime. First of all, this is so extraordinary to be in the company of such powerful, my fellow nominees, ...more
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Another female director is nominated for an Oscar
With all the hoopla over Kathryn Bigelow (as well the nomination for An Education as best picture) I missed another women directed film — The Milk of Sorrow directed by Claudia Llosa — which is up for the foreign film Oscar.
Not only is this film dir...more
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Kathryn Bigelow on Good Morning America
Here’s Kathryn Bigelow talking about the film and what it might mean to other women if she wins the Oscar. The anticipation for the Oscars is killing me. I am so excited.
When asked what she thinks of being a role model she said it is “thrilling”...more
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Kathryn Bigelow wins Best Director at BAFTAs
The awards season keeps rolling on for Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker. Not only was the film named best picture last evening at the BAFTA’s (the British version of the Academy Awards), but Bigelow became the first woman EVER to be named best direct...more
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The Technical Academy Awards- For Guys Only?
If you didn’t know any better after reading this AP article on the Academy’s technical awards you’d think that only men worked in Hollywood. This piece is one of the strangest takes on the industry that I have seen in a while.
Here’s the first l...more
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The Academy Awards nominees luncheon
Yesterday, 121 Oscar nominees gathered to celebrate themselves and get their marching order for the show (speeches can only be 45 seconds.)
Anne Thompson has a report from the event.
How fun would it have been to be in that room where Tom Sherak the hea...more
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Oscar Campaigning
You have to check out the NY Magazine piece that Mark Harris wrote on the Oscar campaign. The more I read and learn about this stuff, the more it resembles politics with handlers telling people what to wear, what to say, where to go and how to act.
It ...more
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Early thoughts on the Oscar nominations
This morning I have such a feeling of relief over Kathryn Bigelow’s nomination. Since the Academy has such a shitty track record of honoring women, I thought in back of my mind that they just might give her (and us) the big finger.
But those thoughts...more
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Can Kathryn Bigelow win the DGA Award on Saturday?
I’m still bitter over the Golden Globes. I can’t let it go. I really thought that Bigelow would win best director and she, of course, didn’t. I wish that I didn’t care this much but I find the fact that we girls have a horse in the race for ...more
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