"academy-of-motion-picture-arts-sciences" Articles & Blogs:
Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur left off Oscar memorial montage
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While last night was certainly an excellent night for women in film, the Academy seems to have forgotten two great actresses from their memorial montage: Bea Arthur and Farrah Fawcett, who both passed away in 2009.According to Leslie Unger, spokespe...[Read on] |
The Technical Academy Awards- For Guys Only?
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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...[Read on] |
Some Kathryn Bigelow News
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Here’s why awards matter. Kathryn Bigelow who we all know won the best director Oscar this year is receiving two different honors.
Even though she has a distinguished body of work I doubt she would have gotten either had she not kicked butt on The ...[Read on] |
The Academy Awards nominees luncheon
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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...[Read on] |
Golden Globe Nominees – The Women
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I like the Golden Globes because it is one of the only opportunities to see some great women on TV nominated with film stars. I know it’s a joke because only 100 people do the voting, but it brings a certain lightness to the awards season.
Some ...[Read on] |
What if Women Ran the Academy?
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A colleague from the Hollywood Reporter and I were speaking on a wide range of issues yesterday and he asked me to put this question forward to you all.
Would the Academy Awards be different if women were in charge?
Would we have more female directi...[Read on] |
Kathryn Bigelow as Best Director? Bring Her On!
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(WOMENSENEWS)--March 7 brings us the Academy Awards and a chance to see Kathryn Bigelow become the first woman to win a best director Oscar.
"The Hurt Locker," Bigelow's taut drama about U.S. soldiers deployed to defuse bombs in Iraq, transcend...[Read on] |
Jane Campion gets screwed by the Academy
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You all know that I am a big fan of Jane Campion and Bright Star. I’m not hiding it at all. Here is a woman who made a really great movie after her last movie In the Cut got a devastating reception from all circles. She took some time, regrouped a...[Read on] |
'Precious' Pushes Past Controversy to Oscar Night
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Not since the film version of "The Color Purple" came out 15 years ago have black women had so much at stake at the Academy Awards.
"The Color Purple"--based on a book of the same name by Alice Walker about sisterhood a...[Read on] |
First fruits of a beautiful labor: Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy graduates inaugural class
| Andre Agassi and one of the first graduates from the Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy on Saturday, June 13, during the graduation ceremony.(All Photos by Wireimage)by Kyle Hansen for the Las Vegas SuncontactLas Vegas, Saturday, June 13 -- The first ...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Lisa Scottoline
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I read this interview yesterday and it totally cracked me up. I haven’t read Scottoline’s books but I am now adding them to my list. I guess I must be the only one who hasn’t read them because there are 25 million in print. She now has a non-f...[Read on] |
How will more Best Picture Nominees effect women?
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The Academy blew the minds of pretty much everyone following the film business by doubling the Best Picture nominees starting this year. So instead of five best picture nominees there will be ten.
The news was greeted with mixed emotions (as expected) ...[Read on] |
Celebrating all the women nominated for Academy Awards
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Check out this great trailer from my friends at the Women’s Media Center.
It’s a great pick me up.
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Coachella 2011: Who to See!
| The annual Cali music-and-arts festival is the closest thing we Yanks have to Glastonbury—music man Marc Spitz sifts through the 150 acts to name the eight best.
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All aboard for Disney's train tour
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Disney is pulling out all the whistle stops and taking its show on the road with a spectacular immersive and interactive 40-city train tour including a 3D sneak peek of film footage from the upcoming movie "Disney's A Christmas Carol."
Looking for so...[Read on] |
Early thoughts on the Oscar nominations
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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...[Read on] |
Kathryn Bigelow wins Best Director at BAFTAs
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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...[Read on] |
Come out to support girls in Africa
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In early 2009, our good friends Carol Ann Gleason, Founder and Director of Stimulus Projects and NYC-based Photographer Danielle St. Laurent teamed up to launch the Geo-Girls Citizen Journalism Program at the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy in Nairobi, Kenya...[Read on] |
Animal Kingdom’s Jacki Weaver on Her National Board of Review Victory
| Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdon. Photo by Narelle Sheean, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. When the Australian indie film Animal Kingdom made a splash at Sundance in January, everyone couldn’t stop talking about veteran actress Jacki Weaver’s spine-...[Read on] |
Sexism Alert: The Catfight Begins
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Peter Bart has never been known as being ahead of the curve on gender issues, so it’s not too surprising that his was the first column to begin pitting Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow in a girl-on-girl competition for year end awards for their films Br...[Read on] |
SWAN Day - Support Women Artists Now- is Tomorrow
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Tomorrow is the second annual SWAN (Support Women Arists Now) Day. The whole point of the day is to recognize and support women artists. Women & Hollywood will be supporting women artists tomorrow at the Boston screening of Hounddog.
The event is a pro...[Read on] |
TV is So White- DUH
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Shonda Rhimes
The NY Times had a piece yesterday about how TV is still so white. It was titled No Smooth Ride on TV Networks’ Road to Diversity. It actually should have been titled No Smooth Ride for Men on TV Network Road to Diversity.
They piece t...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Producing Precious
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Women & Hollywood has a fantastic guest post by L.A. Collins in which she interviews Lisa Cortes, the executive producer of Precious. She writes:
At the SAG Awards, critics darling and Oscar front-runner Mo'Nique flipped the script. She took a special, u...[Read on] |
Vamps, Vixens and Feminists: The Elephant in the Room
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This week in London the Sphinx Theatre Company, a feminist theatre company, organized a conference Vamps, Vixens and Feminists: The Elephant in the Room to look at gender and age discrimination in the arts. They seem to have gotten some high profile peo...[Read on] |
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