"awards" Articles & Blogs:
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] |
Women Score at the Gotham Awards
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Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker started off the awards season with a win for best feature at the IFP’s Gotham Awards. The event also included a tribute to director Bigelow. We shouldn’t read too much into the win but last year’s winner Froze...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Steinberg Playwright Awards
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It’s not enough to have clear statistics about how women are discriminated in theatre, but now a new award — The Steinberg Playwright Awards — given to “emerging” playwrights has decided that there is no woman good enough to qualify as emerging....[Read on] |
Awards Watch: National Board of Review
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Carey Mulligan
The National Board of Review (NBR) handed out its awards for 2009 and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air (which is opening in limited release today) took top honors. NBR is a mysterious group. Some film people, some folks not in the bus...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: DGA Doc Nominees
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Agnes Varda
Mai Iskander
A couple of women, one veteran, Agnes Varda and one newcomer, Mai Iskander just got their first nominations for a DGA Award.
Iskander was nominated for Garbage Dreams about boys born into the “trash world” in Egypt whic...[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] |
Carrie Underwood Rules Country Music Awards
| For the first time in almost a decade, a woman wins the top honor in the boys club of the ACMsCarrie Underwood | Today 10:55 amCarrie Underwood won Entertainer of the Year at last night’s Academy of Country Music Awards, the first woman to win the t...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: Gotham Independent Film Nominations
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It has begun. The crazy awards season. We’re going to keep track of the women creatives (and films about women) on the way to the Oscars.
The good news. Two women directors are up for best feature. The Hurt Locker was expected, but Amreeka is a b...[Read on] |
Chris Brown Pulls Name From Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
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A rep says, ‘Unfortunately, the controversy surrounding the incident last month has
shifted the focus from the music to whether he should be allowed to be
among those nominated …’Post | Today 4:15 pmChris Brown removed himself as a nomin...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Long List of the Foreign Language Contenders
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The Academy released the 65 titles eligible for the best foreign film. Only SEVEN of the 65 are directed by women. Guess that things aren’t so much better outside the US for women directors.
Here are the women, the countries and their films:
Hunga...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: National Book Award Nominees
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Here are the women who were nominated for the National Book Awards. Winners will be announced on November 18,
Fiction
Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)
Non-Fictio...[Read on] |
Theatre women create awards in honor of Lillian Hellman
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This year a bunch of very high profile theatre writers and others decided that they were tired of women’s work being constantly unacknowledged, so they created The Lilly awards which will honor 17 women theater artists, as well as Mary Rodgers who will ...[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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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] |
Theatre Awards
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The arrival of marks the end of the theatre season here in NY so it’s awards time. The Tony Awards just deal with Broadway plays and there are other awards that include both Broadway and off-Broadway. I always find the mixed awards so fascinating be...[Read on] |
The Lilly Awards — Kristin Chenoweth’s Statement
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On Monday night a packed house gathered at Playwrights Horizons people in NYC to celebrate women working in theatre. A bunch of people including playwrights Theresa Rebeck and Marsha Norman who call themselves the “Committee for the Recognition of Out...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Hollywood Reporter’s Cinematographer Roundtable
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I guess I should thank the Hollywood Reporter for making my job easy this week by providing me with such blatantly sexist material.
They posted their conversation with cinematographers and SURPRISE there is not a single woman included.
I know that the...[Read on] |
What the Gotham Independent Film Awards Giveth, the Spirit Awards Taketh Away
| From left: The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, screenwriter Mark Boal, and Jeremy Renner. Last night, the 19th Gotham Independent Film Awards—the first hurdle in the award-season obstacle course leading up to Oscar ...[Read on] |
Female composer nominated for Ivor Novello Award
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Here’s a topic that I don’t focus enough on: women who write music for films. Suffice it to say there are not a lot of them. One of the most well known is Rachel Portman who was the first female to win an Academy Award for Emma in 1996. Another on...[Read on] |
NYWIFT Muse Awards
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the NYWIFT Muse Awards which honored some amazing women including America Ferrara (Ugly Betty); Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife); Allison Silverman (formerly the Executive Producer of the Colbert Report); Andrea...[Read on] |
CFDA to Honor Fashion Icon Michelle Obama
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The Council of Fashion Designers of America will honor First Lady Michelle Obama this JuneThe Etceterist | Today 11:55 am
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Hair up, hair down, sleeves or sleeveless, Michael Kors, Jason Wu, Narciso Rodriguez — or will there be a new favorit...[Read on] |
Cannes Awards: A Glamorous Night with Few Surprises (Except Javier and Penelope)
| Tim Burton leads the Cannes jury.
The Cannes Film Festival is a huge deal in France—comparable to what the Oscars are in the United States. An estimated 30,000 media, publicists, other festival directors, and a slew of support staff double the size ...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Independent Spirit Award Nominations
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Isn’t the indie world supposed to be better for women? Guess not that much better since women were virtually shut out of all the major awards categories for the Independent Spirit Awards which will be held in LA on Friday, March 5th.
Here are some of...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
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Enron by Lucy Prebble
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the most prestigious international prize awarded to a female playwright (for writing in English) has named the ten finalists for the 2010 award. The award is basically the Pulitzer for women. It ...[Read on] |
Sundance Awards Watch: Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone takes the Top Prize
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What a weekend for female directors!
First, Kathryn Bigelow wins the DGA award putting her in the drivers seat for the Oscar, and almost simultaneously, Debra Granik took the Grand Jury Prize for her film Winter’s Bone. That makes Granik two for two ...[Read on] |
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