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Watching this year’s Academy Awards nominees for Best Production Design, what stayed with me was not just the scale of the worlds created, but how completely I believed in them. Across this year’s lineup, the environments feel less like constructed sets and more like spaces that extend beyond the frame.
In films like Frankenstein, the world does not call attention to itself as design.… read more.
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature has only existed for twenty-five years. In this short timespan, only 49 of the 243 nominees in the top three categories — Director, Screenwriter, &/or Producer — have been women (~ 20%). Remarkably, 14 of these women (~ 29%) were nominated in 2026’s 98th Academy Awards cycle.… read more.
In the history of the Oscars, there have been only three women to win the Academy Award for Best Director. The first one was a mere fifteen years ago.
In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow was awarded for her film, The Hurt Locker, and made history – breaking the celluloid ceiling. The movie, which followed an American EOD (explosive ordnance disposal team) in the Iraq War, was by no means a sure bet to win.… read more.
The 2024 Oscar Awards were broadcast on Sunday, March 10, and from the jump, the night was not set up to reflect the incredible year that women had had in film. Overall, the wins this year were male-heavy: Notably Oppenheimer took both Best Director and Best Picture (as well as several other Oscars). However, there were some nice moments for women, and we’re here to take you through them. … read more.
Happy birthday, Margot Robbie! As Margot turns 33, and with the nationwide hype surrounding her upcoming Barbie movie, now is the perfect time to celebrate one of our generation’s most iconic actresses.
Born in Dalby, Queensland, Australia, Margot started out her performing arts career in a different way than you’d expect: she attended circus school, receiving a certificate for trapeze at the age of eight.… read more.
Women Talking, a film written and directed by Sarah Polley, was just nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2023 Academy Awards. The film is receiving much-deserved attention for the incredible story it tells. Of course, it was all made possible by Sarah Polley.
Sarah Polley is well known for her directing projects, but her success began years before that.… read more.