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Women and Hollywood
Melissa Silverstein is the founder and editor of Women and Hollywood, one of the most respected sites for issues related to women and film as well as other areas of pop culture. Women and Hollywood educates, advocates, and agitates for gender parity across the entertainment industry. She is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Athena Film Festival. The 4th annual festival will take place from February 6-9, 2014 at Barnard College in NYC. Melissa recently published the first book from Women and Hollywood, In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing, which is a compilation of over 40 interviews that have appeared on the site.Email Melissa
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2013 Cannes News- Part 1
Some news coming out of Cannes
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- May 16, 2013 12:00 PM
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Anne Hathaway and Chloe Grace Moretz Sign onto Lynn Shelton's Laggies
When Women and Hollywood interviewed Lynn Shelton earlier in the year at Sundance, she mentioned her next project, Laggies, written by Andrea Seigel. Shelton described it about a twentysomething woman, who is passive in her life. When her longtime boyfriend proposes, she freaks out and hides out with her new best friend, a 16 year old girl.
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- April 1, 2013 12:30 PM
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The Happy Girl vs. The Cool Girl: Why People Don't Like Anne Hathaway
People, especially women, really don't like Anne Hathaway. This isn't something that just started since Hathaway won her Oscar for Les Miserables last week--it's been long festering.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- March 6, 2013 2:00 PM
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Women Deserved Better at the 2013 Oscars
With Seth McFarlane hosting the Oscars, we here at Women and Hollywood weren’t expecting much. But the sexist, racist, homophobic and completely unfunny spree that McFarlane hosted was even worse than imagined.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- February 25, 2013 2:43 PM
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Cross Post: My Two Favorite Golden Globe Winners: JLaw & Anne Get it Right on Body Image
As a complete movie nerd, I dragged my reluctant friends and family to my tiny local movie theater quite a few times over this past winter break. There have been just too many great movies to choose from lately, which left me feeling like a little kid in a cinematic candy shop. Lincoln and Les Miserables dazzled me with the strength of the actors' legendary performances. Life of Pi and The Hobbit amazed me with rich storytelling and eye-popping CGI. Silver Linings Playbook, hands down, my absolute favorite movie of the year, left me with a “great-movie high,” as I have recently dubbed the feeling.
- By Rachel Pratl
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- February 18, 2013 11:30 AM
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Standing Up and For Women
When I first started Women and Hollywood I knew that I wanted to the site to support women and their roles and accomplishments in pop culture but I really did not know exactly what that meant.
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- February 1, 2013 1:00 PM
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Abi Morgan to Adapt 'Taming of the Shrew,' Anne Hathaway to Star
Brit Abi Morgan is taking on the master and adapting Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Morgan, who created the BBC series The Hour and has written Shame and The Iron Lady, is supremely talented and brilliant. If you haven’t watched The Hour, please do so immediately, it is one of the best shows airing on television. Both season one and two are available on DVD and instant video.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- January 18, 2013 11:30 AM
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Putting an Oscar Campaign on Your Credit Card
Oscar nominations close tomorrow (there has been trouble with the on-line voting) and one woman hoping to make the cut is Ann Dowd who has already received accolades for her performance in the creepy (but good) film Compliance. Look at Dowd and you will recognize her. I watched Philadelphia again over the holidays (for the zillionth time) and there she was as Tom Hanks' sister.
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- January 3, 2013 10:03 AM
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Women's Film Critics Circle Name Zero Dark Thirty Best Movie of 2012, Ava DuVernay Wins Josephine Baker Award
The Women’s Film Critics Circle have announced their 2012 picks. And as she continues to sweep the awards circuit, Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty won several awards including Best Movie by a Woman. Ava DuVernay was awarded the Josephine Baker award for Middle of Nowhere. Anne Hathaway was named Best Actress for Les Miserables and Brave took the Best Animated Females award.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- December 19, 2012 11:00 AM
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Anne Hathaway on Her Transformation in Les Mis
There’s a lot of Oscar buzz centered around the soon to be released Les Misérables, particularly for Anne Hathaway whose character, Fantine, is actually in the film the least amount of time. First there was the issue of her hair. Then there was the issue about how she also lost 25 pounds to portray Fantine realistically.
- By Holly Rosen Fink
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- December 12, 2012 2:00 PM
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