March 2010
9 posts
How Oscar Found Ms. Right- NYTimes
By MANOHLA DARGISPublished: March 10, 2010
KATHRYN BIGELOW’S two-fisted win at the Academy Awards for best director and best film for “The Hurt Locker” didn’t just punch through the American movie industry’s seemingly shatterproof glass ceiling; it has also helped dismantle stereotypes about what types of films women can and should direct. It was historic, exhilarating, especially for women who...
CONGRATULATIONS KATHRYN!!!
photograph from NYT.com
And the Gender-Neutral Oscar Goes To... NYT OP-ED
By KIM ELSESSER
Published: March 3, 2010
MANY hours into the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony this Sunday, the Oscar for best actor will go to Morgan Freeman, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth or Jeremy Renner. Suppose, however, that theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented separate honors for best white actor and best non-white actor, and that Mr. Freeman was prohibited...
Excited to Interview Molly Haskell Tomorrow
MOLLY HASKELL author and critic… She has written for many publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian UK, Esquire, The Nation, Town and Country, The New York Observer and The New York Review of Books. She has served as Artistic Director of the Sarasota French Film Festival, on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival, as associate Professor of Film at Barnard and...
Chyna Layne from Precious is in 82 Women!
Robin Hessman Interview Yesterday
We at 82 Women are thrilled that Robin Hessman is a part of our project !
Bio from http://filmmakerscollab.org/filmmakers/robin-hessman/
Robin Hessman
Robin Hessman has been a documentary filmmaker and producer for the past 15 years. She graduated from Brown University with a joint degree in Russian and Film and received her graduate degree in film directing from the All-Russian State...
Female Directors, Writers, and Producers in Film...
Stacy Smith Associate Professor, USC Annenberg
Posted: March 1, 2010 04:16 PM
Results from a USC/Annenberg study on 100 Top-Grossing films from 2007
Last week, my research team and I released a study on gender in 100 top-grossing films in 2007 (Key Findings). A few main results emerged, which I would like to highlight here. First, females do not represent “half the cinematic...
February 2010
10 posts
A WOMAN FOR EVERY OSCAR: CELEBRATING 82 WOMEN IN...
Dear Friends, We are young filmmakers and recent Brown graduates producing a short tribute documentary in tandem with the 82nd Academy Awards to celebrate the accomplishments of women in film and television. In recognition of your valuable time, we are conducting 3-minute-interviews via Skype, AND circulating the questions in advance so 3-5 minutes really means 3-5 minutes. We are asking the...
Action! -New York Times
By MANOHLA DARGIS Published: June 18, 2009
THE take on Kathryn Bigelow is that she is a great female director of muscular action movies, the kind with big guns, scenes, themes and camera movements as well as an occasional fist in the face, a knee to the groin. Sometimes, more simply, she’s called a great female director. But here’s a radical thought: She is, simply, a great filmmaker. Because...
Times Critic On Hollywood, Women, & Why Romantic...
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“I usually maintain a fairly even temper about Hollywood because I couldn’t do my job otherwise,” Manohla Dargis told me today. But the formidable NY Times film critic has fighting words for Hollywood and how it treats women.
Dargis’ “fuck them” - the first of several - refers specifically to a fact she highlighted in her piece this weekend on...
Women in the Seats but Not Behind the Camera- New...
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: December 10, 2009
IN March 1993 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that hands out Oscars, decided it was a good time to celebrate women. It wasn’t an original idea: 1992 had been popularly known as the year of the woman in politics, partly because of the number of new women elected to the Senate that year (4!) and the House (24!). Now...
Women directors eye Oscar - Variety.com
Historic number of them could be nominated
By David Friend
Denmark’s Lone Scherfig, director of ‘An Education,’ got a lesson of her own on the status of women directors in Hollywood.
Female helmers have captured plenty of attention in the early days of award season and sparked optimism that, this year, more than one could land a spot on the director’s list...
Huffington Post: Women-Made Films Mostly Ignored... →
Nominees for the 82nd Oscars
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Nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards
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Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”
Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon in “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson in “The...
Up Close+Personal: Women Directors - Forbes.com
Power Women
Up Close And Personal: Women Directors
Kiri Blakeley, 02.19.09, 11:00 AM EST
Some women directors are making waves—and money—in Hollywood. But the coveted Best Director Oscar continues to elude them.
In all, there were 11 women nominated in 2004 who worked either as directors or screenwriters on films that were nominated in the eight major award categories. Industry...