Outside the U.S. females in the movie business
· The first African woman film director to gain international recognition was the Safi Faye with a film about the village in which she was born (Letter from the village) 1975
· Mira Nair, Aparna Sen, Deepa Mehta and Gurinder Chadha are among the best known Indian women filmmakers
· Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, a writer and a director, is probably Iran's best known and certainly most prolific female filmmaker.
· Marta Rodriguez is a Colombian documentary film maker
· Elvira Notari was a pioneer of Italian cinema
· Marta Meszaros has been making important films for decades in Hungary.
· Sally Potter is a prominent British feminist film maker. British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah explores the legacies of colonialism
Sofia Coppola- director
· Leading female director in Hollywood
· Wrote and directed The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, and Marie Antoinette
Facts:
· Women’s achievement in filmmaking devalued
· Although the statues of directors grew in the 1960’s and 1970’s, recognition of Hollywood features remained rare.
· In the history of the Academy Awards only 3 women have received an Academy Award nomination for directing a feature film:
o Lina Wertmuller in 1976 à Seven Beauties
o Jane Campion in 1993 à The Piano
o Sofia Coppola in 2004 à Lost in Translation
· Female directors outside the U.S. often receive more funding opportunities for film development
· When women in the U.S. get such an opportunity it is often because their popularity as actors has given them the power to produce or direct. Barbara Streisand, Jodie Foster, Penny Marshall, and Sally Field are examples
· Even by the late 1990’s among major studio executives only a few women held top jobs
· An independent film maker Julie Dash has argues that the a woman’s best chanced of controlling the movie process aside from acting, is to stay outside of the Hollywood system.
· Twilight's $70.5 million amounts to the best opening weekend for a female director ever. Not only did she break Mimi Leder's (Deep Impact) record of $41.1 million, but Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke destroyed it -- bringing her all the way up to the 29th best opening weekend in history (according to Box Office Mojo)
Article
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23626505-details/slumdog%20s%20female%20director%20should%20be%20able%20to%20share%20oscar/article.do
· Slumdog’s female director ‘should be able to share Oscar’
· Slumdog Millionaire is at the centre of a dispute over gender equality.
· While director Danny Boyle is nominated for an Oscar, co-director Loveleen Tandan is not. Now American campaigners are urging Boyle to “make history” if he wins by sharing the honor with her.
· Tandan was initially appointed casting director, but was named co-director by Boyle after her contribution to the shoot became “indispensable”.
· Jan Lisa Huttner of Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now has launched an online campaign to urge Boyle to insist Tandan share his name on the Academy Awards ballot paper. She said: “Women find it harder to be able to make films and have their films seen. That's why this is such an important issue.” No woman has ever won an Academy award for best director and only three have ever been nominated. Academy rules state only one individual can be named on the ballot paper.
Female Directors at the Box Office
· 01 $182 million What Women Want (2000) Nancy Meyers
· 02 $144 million Doctor Dolittle (1998) Betty Thomas
· 03 $143 million Mamma Mia! (2008) Phyllida Lloyd
· 04 $140 million Deep Impact (1998) Mimi Leder
· 05 $140 million Look Who's Talking (1989) Amy Heckerling
· 06 $126 million Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Nora Ephron
· 07 $124 million Something's Gotta Give (2003) Nancy Meyers
· 08 $121 million Wayne's World (1992) Penelope Spheeris
· 09 $119 million Twilight (2008) Catherine Hardwicke
· 10 $115 million You've Got Mail (1998) Nora Ephron
Clips from Youtube
· 2nd Annual Focus on Female Directors
This program heralds the work of industry heavyweights, cinema pioneers, actresses-turned-directors, festival darlings, and the brightest stars emerging from film school.
January 18, 2007 at 7:30pm in the Egyptian Theatre. Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4HbBjM6gws
· 3rd Annual Focus on Female Directors
Same description as above. It took place January 10, 2008 at 7:30pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ4wlfNfvLg&NR=1
· The first African woman film director to gain international recognition was the Safi Faye with a film about the village in which she was born (Letter from the village) 1975
· Mira Nair, Aparna Sen, Deepa Mehta and Gurinder Chadha are among the best known Indian women filmmakers
· Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, a writer and a director, is probably Iran's best known and certainly most prolific female filmmaker.
· Marta Rodriguez is a Colombian documentary film maker
· Elvira Notari was a pioneer of Italian cinema
· Marta Meszaros has been making important films for decades in Hungary.
· Sally Potter is a prominent British feminist film maker. British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah explores the legacies of colonialism
Sofia Coppola- director
· Leading female director in Hollywood
· Wrote and directed The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, and Marie Antoinette
Facts:
· Women’s achievement in filmmaking devalued
· Although the statues of directors grew in the 1960’s and 1970’s, recognition of Hollywood features remained rare.
· In the history of the Academy Awards only 3 women have received an Academy Award nomination for directing a feature film:
o Lina Wertmuller in 1976 à Seven Beauties
o Jane Campion in 1993 à The Piano
o Sofia Coppola in 2004 à Lost in Translation
· Female directors outside the U.S. often receive more funding opportunities for film development
· When women in the U.S. get such an opportunity it is often because their popularity as actors has given them the power to produce or direct. Barbara Streisand, Jodie Foster, Penny Marshall, and Sally Field are examples
· Even by the late 1990’s among major studio executives only a few women held top jobs
· An independent film maker Julie Dash has argues that the a woman’s best chanced of controlling the movie process aside from acting, is to stay outside of the Hollywood system.
· Twilight's $70.5 million amounts to the best opening weekend for a female director ever. Not only did she break Mimi Leder's (Deep Impact) record of $41.1 million, but Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke destroyed it -- bringing her all the way up to the 29th best opening weekend in history (according to Box Office Mojo)
Article
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23626505-details/slumdog%20s%20female%20director%20should%20be%20able%20to%20share%20oscar/article.do
· Slumdog’s female director ‘should be able to share Oscar’
· Slumdog Millionaire is at the centre of a dispute over gender equality.
· While director Danny Boyle is nominated for an Oscar, co-director Loveleen Tandan is not. Now American campaigners are urging Boyle to “make history” if he wins by sharing the honor with her.
· Tandan was initially appointed casting director, but was named co-director by Boyle after her contribution to the shoot became “indispensable”.
· Jan Lisa Huttner of Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now has launched an online campaign to urge Boyle to insist Tandan share his name on the Academy Awards ballot paper. She said: “Women find it harder to be able to make films and have their films seen. That's why this is such an important issue.” No woman has ever won an Academy award for best director and only three have ever been nominated. Academy rules state only one individual can be named on the ballot paper.
Female Directors at the Box Office
· 01 $182 million What Women Want (2000) Nancy Meyers
· 02 $144 million Doctor Dolittle (1998) Betty Thomas
· 03 $143 million Mamma Mia! (2008) Phyllida Lloyd
· 04 $140 million Deep Impact (1998) Mimi Leder
· 05 $140 million Look Who's Talking (1989) Amy Heckerling
· 06 $126 million Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Nora Ephron
· 07 $124 million Something's Gotta Give (2003) Nancy Meyers
· 08 $121 million Wayne's World (1992) Penelope Spheeris
· 09 $119 million Twilight (2008) Catherine Hardwicke
· 10 $115 million You've Got Mail (1998) Nora Ephron
Clips from Youtube
· 2nd Annual Focus on Female Directors
This program heralds the work of industry heavyweights, cinema pioneers, actresses-turned-directors, festival darlings, and the brightest stars emerging from film school.
January 18, 2007 at 7:30pm in the Egyptian Theatre. Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4HbBjM6gws
· 3rd Annual Focus on Female Directors
Same description as above. It took place January 10, 2008 at 7:30pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ4wlfNfvLg&NR=1
I'm very surprised that only 3 women have been nominated for an Academy Award for directing. Do you know if these women won? It just seems so crazy that only 3 have been nominated. I figured it would be a small amount, but not that small.
ReplyDeleteThe directors listed in other countries for doing great work surprises me. If women are well known in other countries why not ours? Culturally people really don't know women behind the scenes in the movie business, only men are well known. Also i agree that only three women have been nominated for an academy award in directing is a surprise. The women who were listed above for the top grosses in a movie made well-known movies, they aren't small or unheard of movies.
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