Sentences with phrase «made by a female director»

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

At a time when women make up 50.8 % of the U.S. population, just 4.2 % of the 100 top - grossing American films are made by female directors; and that statistic hasn't changed over the last decade.

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The list of potential directors, chosen by a committee expected to be made up of sitting directors and search - firm consultants, will eventually be available online to assist boards looking for female directors.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

Beyond Braff at the helm, Going in Style is scripted by Theodore Melfi, the recently Oscar - nominated writer / director behind Hidden Figures, which similarly followed a trio of undervalued people — in that case, three brilliant - but - overlooked black female NASA scientists — and found a way to make its dramatic hamminess (mostly) work to its own advantage.

Best Film: Manchester by the Sea Best Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Best Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea Best Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence Best Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings Breakthrough Performance (Male): Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea Breakthrough Performance (Female): Royalty Hightower, The Fits Best Directorial Debut: Trey Edward Shults, Krisha Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman Best Documentary: O.J.: Made in America Best Ensemble: Hidden Figures Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Cameraperson

Female directors should fight film - industry sexism by making movies that appeal to as wide an audience as possible, Venice Film Festival jury president Annette Bening said Wednesday, the first day of a festival that has been criticized for a lack of...

Of course host Jimmy Kimmel found time for plenty of jokes about Harvey Weinstein during his opening monologue, but elsewhere, some of the industry's biggest names made their allegiances evident, from the introduction of Best Actor by Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda, Emma Stone singling out sole female Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig when announcing that award, and Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence taking the stage to announce that it was a new day before they presented the Best Actress award to McDormand.

A report released this month by USC Annenberg's Inclusion Initiative, however, is less encouraging — women made up only 4.3 % of all directors of the 1,100 top films released from 2007 - 17, a ratio of 22 males to each female director.

Academy Award — nominated director Jason Reitman returns to the Sundance Film Festival for the sixth time, having previously debuted four shorts and one feature at the Festival, while Academy Award — winning screenwriter Diablo Cody makes her Sundance Film Festival debut with Tully, a funny, moving, and insightful look at motherhood that features captivating performances by its two female leads.

Three of the movies from female filmmakers of color that made our «Best Films About Women in 2014» list — Amma Asante's Belle, Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights, and Ava DuVernay's Selma — are happily among the 17 films helmed by female directors to crack the top 250 list.

Though Unbroken made it in, the NBR threw a polite but very insulting bone to the other film by a female director who is on the rise, Ava DuVernay's powerful film Selma.

This is a film about female gender roles made by a male director, who doesn't seem to know much about female gender roles, despite the script being written by a woman.

So, now that Telluride has made an effort to include female directors and has a few female - driven films headlining, you are seeing the very kind of pushback that will limit choices by year's end.

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Already making waves by exclusively hiring female directors, writers, and producers, this steamy period drama follows the lives of sex workers in 18th century London.

A portmanteau made up of three tales linked by geography and the inner lives of several female characters, Certain Women feels almost like a summary of director Kelly Reichardt's work so far, drawing in the sweeping Midwestern landscapes of Meek's Cutoff, the aching loneliness of Wendy and Lucy and the shaggy - bearded, searching men of Old Joy.

Overall, Sam Taylor - Johnson «s drama made box - office history by having the largest opening weekend for a female director ever, with an $ 85.2 three - day haul.

An argument made by many on social media was that there simply aren't enough female directors to choose from.