Sentences with phrase «top women film»
AWFJ is an organization of top women film journalists and critics from across the U.S, Canada and UK.
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Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Women in Television & Film.
A recent study of the top 250 grossing films found that women comprised roughly 6 percent of the directors; the number of female minority filmmakers can barely be measured.
Last year, worldwide sales of Wonder Woman topped $ 821 million, making it the highest - grossing superhero origin film of all time.
According to a study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, the number of women directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by wWomen in Television and Film, the number of women directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by wwomen directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by womenwomen.
Just 7 % of 2016's top films were directed by women.
Set in 1943, as London felt the regular bombings from Hitler and the Allied ships were often bombarded by German U-boats, the film covers the work of the men and women who toiled in the top secret estate of Bletchley Park.
Recently, she hosted the third season of «Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner» for the Si TV Network.New York Newsday raved over her performance in the indie hit «Woman Thou Art Loosed» calling her portrayal of an ex-con recovering addict «Haunting «Six Page Pictorial in the new Las Vegas National Magazine «Player» released Jan 2006Studied Shakespeare at «The Actors Circle Theatre» in Los Angeles and received a standing ovation for her portrayal of «Miss Alma» in Tennesee William's «Summer and Smoke «Running Scared, the film she had a supporting lead in with Paul Walker, is the Top Ten DVD Rental of the month.
Boasting top - notch cast, John Ford's very last, underestimated film celebrates the strength of women in dire conditions.
According to AWFJ President Jennifer Merin, «SLIFF is one of the country's top regional showcases for independent and international film, and it has been a delight to collaborate with them and to honor them for presenting such an exciting slate of films by and about women.»
«It's wonderful to see a lot of female producers whose films are nominated for best picture, but again this illuminates how difficult it is for women to rise to the top of the business and to be taken seriously at this level.»
In fact, eight of the ten movies I included in my top ten of the festival were led by a female performance, five of the ten films were directed by women.
Following another great weekend for Warner Bros. and DC's Wonder Woman, the film is tracking to reach the top 10 comic book movies of all - time.
According to a 2017 report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, women comprised 18 % of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing fWomen in Television and Film, women comprised 18 % of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing fwomen comprised 18 % of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films.
Top ten films might include Wonder Woman or Blade Runner 2049.
The film that brought such classic lines as «There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and «Driving Miss Daisy»» into moviegoers» top film quotes is getting the greenlight this pilot season.
After one month in theaters, Wonder Woman broke the $ 700 million barrier at the worldwide box office this past weekend, thereby becoming one of the top 100 highest - grossing movies ever released; the news came mere days after the film surpassed all three previous installments to become the largest DCEU release at the domestic box office.
Employment statistics for women in the director's chair are as grim as ever: only 9 percent of the top 250 domestic grossing films and 28 percent of supposedly diverse festival films had a female director in 2015; in TV, only 18 percent of first - time episodic directors were women over the five - year period from 2009 to 2014.
Rounding out the composite list of the top 10 films of the year were MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2), LA LA LAND (3), HELL OR HIGH WATER (4), ARRIVAL (5), JACKIE (6), LOVING (7), 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (8), HACKSAW RIDGE (9) and SILENCE (10).
A man watches a pornographic film during which a man has intercourse with a woman from behind with lots of thrusting and moaning; we see the top of her bare breasts as she bends over.
According to the Motion Picture Association of America, half of movie audiences in America are women — in fact, three of the top five highest - grossing films in 2016 were attended by majority female audiences, yet the landscape of critics in America is distinctly male - dominated.
In sum, more men than women write film reviews in the nation's top circulation newspapers, and men write more reviews than women on average.
According to the latest Celluloid Ceiling report, women comprised a scant 15 % of all directors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 films of 2007 («The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind - the - Scenes Representation of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. Lauwomen comprised a scant 15 % of all directors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 films of 2007 («The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind - the - Scenes Representation of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. Lauzetop 250 films of 2007 («The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind - the - Scenes Representation of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. LauWomen on the Top 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. LauzeTop 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. Lauzen).
Making history, however, are the foreign film «A Fantastic Woman» and feature documentary «Strong Island,» projects with transgender voices, making it quite possible that the work of an openly trans person could earn one of the industry's top prizes in March.
As we enter into the second half of 2016, the half of the year where the releases tend to be richer, let's take a look at the top ten most highly anticipated films with women in leading and co-leading roles.
There are two things keeping cinematic ladies away from the Best Picture race: female - centric films aren't getting the same level of successful campaigning for the top prizes, obviously, and roles that * could * go to women are going, instead, to men.
In a Sundance that has seen films about the former Celebrity Apprentice host and a Women's March on Main that drew over 8,000 anti-Trump protesters, it was inevitable that the ban would be a topic top of mind at the Jessica Williams hosted ceremony from Park City — and it was, from the top down.
At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.
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«Baby Face,» one of the most outrageous pre-Code films, will be shown in its original uncut form, with Stanwyck as a woman from the wrong side of the tracks — her father was her pimp — who decides to sleep her way to the top in the New York business world.
According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, over the past three years, only 1 to 2 percent of composers working on the top 250 films at the box office were wWomen in Television and Film, over the past three years, only 1 to 2 percent of composers working on the top 250 films at the box office were womenwomen.
Wonder Woman topped all of Marvel Entertainment's Avengers and friends at their first weekends: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Ant - Man (both Hulk films as well), and Guardians of the Galaxy.
Maycock, together with friends Daniella Verektenidi and Jake Cunningham, got the idea for Girls on Tops after seeing Mike Mills» 2016 film 20th Century Women.
The American Film Institute has announced its list of the top ten U.S. movies of 2017: The Big Sick Call Me By Your Name Dunkirk The Florida Project Get Out Lady Bird The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Wonder Woman The above films will all be hoping to pick up -LSB-...]
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.
The transgender actor Daniela Vega, acclaimed for her turn in Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, will soon join the ranks of Girls on Tops, proving the brand's determination to go beyond the mainstream film industry's traditional, discriminatory limits.
The percentage of women directing independently produced documentaries (39 %) is stunning when compared to the percentage of women directing top grossing films in 2011 (5 %).
Not only was the film universally panned, but it lost the top spot to Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules and is feeling the wrath of angry critics and moviegoers fuming over the film's exploitation of women despite the fact that Snyder hoped that «by the end the girls are empowered by their sexuality and not exploited.»
The film topped nine other nominees in the race, including The Big Sick, Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, I, Tonya, Lady Bird, Molly's Game, The Post, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Wonder Woman.
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.
All month, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists has been counting down the top 55 female film characters of all time, their «Wonder Women.»
Filipino director Lav Diaz took home the top prize from the 73rd Venice Film Festival with his newest (and one of his shortest) film, The Woman Who Left.
According to San Diego State's Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, women made up just 7 percent of all directors on the top 250 films, and that's a 2 percent decline from 2015 (which was at about the same percentage as it was in 1Women in Television and Film, women made up just 7 percent of all directors on the top 250 films, and that's a 2 percent decline from 2015 (which was at about the same percentage as it was in 1women made up just 7 percent of all directors on the top 250 films, and that's a 2 percent decline from 2015 (which was at about the same percentage as it was in 1998).
Answering our call was Annette Bening, who plays former Hollywood leading lady Gloria Grahame romantically linked to a much younger man in her final years in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»; Jessica Chastain, who plays real - life poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom targeted by the FBI in «Molly's Game»; Diane Kruger, who won the Cannes film festival's top acting prize for her portrayal of a woman whose husband and child have been killed by terrorists in «In the Fade»; Margot Robbie, who stars as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the quirky «I, Tonya»; Saoirse Ronan, as a Sacramento teen looking for her place in the world in «Lady Bird»; and Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's 1950s Coney Island drama «Wonder Wheel.»
The battle of the sexes takes a decidedly different turn in INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS, and so when I talked with its star, Brenda Blethyn, and its director, Cherie Nowlan on June 25, 2007, how men and women react to the film was top of my list of things to ask them.
If you subscribe to the idea that most movies yielding best - actress nominations just aren't quite good enough to be nominated for best picture, your best supporting evidence is to look at the films made by top directors — and then emphatically throw shade at how few of them star women in the first place.
The trusty Men in Black name has served Sony well for the past three films, but now that the super-secret organization has a woman (Emma Thompson «s O) at the top, it may be time to make some changes.
A film in 2015 that stick to the standard action formula of a flawed lead character full of angst helping some woman fight back against her tormentors would likely be fun and a big hit, but by going against the norm and embracing every bit of chaos in this mad world, Miller creates a new king of the road that's going to be hard for any upcoming blockbuster in 2015 and beyond to top.
Ramsay was the only other woman to win a top non-acting award, earning Best Screenplay for her film, You Were Never Really Here; she shared the prize with Greek filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for their movie, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Indeed, although Kelly Reichardt's drama Certain Women took home the top honour, it was just one of the two female - directed films that screened in the 12 - title program.