Women's Image Network (WIN) is an organization that creates, applauds and shares stories because powerful and excellent media builds inclusive and tolerant communities. Each year since 1993, to increase the value of women and girls, Women's Image Network has been promoting gender parity by producing The Women's Image Awards, which celebrate outstanding film and television that also dispels media stereotypes. Awards,[3] The Women's Image Awards are produced just before the Hollywood awards season.[4]
Actress Lauren Bacall[35] accepted WIN's first Living Legend tribute. That night, New Zealand film director Jane Campion was also honored, and her Piano film star Sam Neill accepted her tribute on her behalf.[36][37]
DIRECTOR FEATURE FILMNeil LaButeNurse Betty (USA Films)
The WIN Awards 2002
Actress Lily Tomlin was honored as a Lifetime Achievement honoree. In lieu of a tribute video, Tomlin was applauded with 'Lily Love Letters' sent from famous friends and serenaded by director David O. Russell. Ruth Buzzi of Laugh In presented.[39]
The WIN Awards were part of the closing night of the final WinFemme Film Festival. The three filmmaker Audience Award winners were: (Feature Film), "Controlled Chaos", director, Azita Zendel, (Documentary Feature) Searching For Paradise, director, Binnur Karaevli and (Short Film), Katherine, director, Mary Louise Stoughton.[40]
Held at the historic Culver City Studios, director Vicky Jensen (Shrek) was honored[42] with WIN's first Kiera Chaplin Limelight directing award.[43] British model and actress Kiera Chaplin is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin and great-granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
COMEDY SERIES:Life with Bonnie "The Merry Ole Land of Oz", Bob & Alice Productions/ Touchstone Television, Director: Bonnie Hunt, Writers: Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Producers: Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Norma Safford Vela, Frank Mula
COMEDY SERIES-ACTORZachary Levi, Less Than Perfect "Roomies,"
COMEDY SERIES ACTRESSSarah Jessica ParkerSex and the City "An American Girl In Paris (Part Deux)"
MADE FOR TV MOVIE / MINI SERIESIron Jawed Angels Spring Creek Productions/HBO Films, Writers: Jennifer Friedes (story), Sally Robinson (screenplay), Director: Katja von Garnier
ACTOR MADE FOR TELEVISION MOVIE / MINI SERIESPatrick DempseyIron Jawed Angels
Gurinder Chadha picked up the Chaplin Limelight Award for directing presented by Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter Kiera Chaplin for whom this award was created. The animated series Kim Possible and Kathy Najimy also won this same award two years later.[43][46]
Winners
Animation SeriesAvatar: The Last Airbender "Imprisoned" (Nickelodeon) Director: Dave Filoni, Writer: Matt Hubbard, Producers: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Aaron Ehaz
Held at UCLA, Senator Barbara Boxer accepted The Woman of The Year Honor.[47] British actress Helen Mirren won two WIN tributes which actress Katie Holmes accepted on her behalf.[48]
Best of Fest Short Film AwardInside Director, Tracie Laymon
Best of Fest Documentary Film AwardWomen Behind The Camera Director: Alexis Krasilovsky
Best of Fest Feature Film AwardLeftovers Director: Robin Nations
The WIN Awards 2010
This was a big awards show year for The WIN awards as WIN created two new Lifetime Achievement awards. These recipients were Suzanne Roberts and Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor friend Mickey Rooney accepted this "Living Legend" award to celebrate Taylor's lifetime work in Hollywood and her charity work advancing HIV/AIDS activism.[60][61][62]
The 2010 WIN Awards also honored Suzanne Roberts[63] for her many career achievements. Her sons, Douglas Roberts and Brian L. Roberts (chairman of Comcast and NBC/Universal), and her husband, Ralph J. Roberts, presented to Mrs. Roberts.[64]
"I am honored to be recognized by the Women's Image Network tonight. I applaud the work of Phyllis Stuart in promoting gender parity and fostering creative opportunity throughout our industry. I have been fortunate throughout my career, but never more so than when I was able to use my fame to raise funds and awareness for the HIV/AIDS crisis, work which remains my singular focus. I am touched to be included among WIN's honorees and so gratified to know my efforts are appreciated. Although I am not able to join you for tonight's awards ceremony, please know I am with you in spirit. Each and every one of you here tonight is making a generous contribution to our community. Through your courage to act and your willingness to share, you provide a vital, effective link for women and girls throughout our industry. I am grateful for this honor, and thank you from the bottom of my heart. Sincerely, Elizabeth Taylor"[72][73]
Made For TV Movie / Mini SeriesMildred Pierce (HBO) A Killer Films / John Wells Production in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and HBO Miniseries; Directed by: Todd Haynes; Teleplay by: Todd Haynes, Jon Raymond; Based on the Novel by: James M. Cain; Executive Producers: John Wells, Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler; Co-Executive Producer: Ilene S. Landress
Actress Made for Television MovieDiane LaneCinema Verite
Documentary FilmTriangle: Remembering The Fire (Blowback Productions for HBO Documentary Films); Directed by: Daphne Pinkerson; Produced by Daphne Pinkerson and Marc Levin; Written by Michael Hirsch, Richard Lowe and Daphne Pinkerson; Edited by Richard Lowe & Christopher K. Walker; Line Producer: Kara Rozansky, "Scenes from "The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal" Directed by Mel Stuart; Senior Producer: Nancy Abraham (For HBO); Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (For HBO); Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh
Film / Show Directed By a WomanLiz GarbusBobby Fischer Against The World (HBO) Moxie Firecracker, HBO Documentary Films and LM Media; Director: Liz Garbus Producers: Stanley Buchthal, Liz Garbus, Matthew Justus, Rory Kennedy; Executive Producers: Dan Cogan, Nick Fraser, Maja Hoffmann, Martin Pieper, Sheila Nevins (HBO); Senior Producer: Nancy Abraham (HBO); Co-Producers: Christoph Jorg, David Koh
Film / Show Produced By a WomanBette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On (HBO) Encanto Enterprises and Funny Business in association with HBO Entertainment; Executive Producer: Bette Midler:Producers: Bette Midler, Seanne Farmer; Writers: Bette Midler, Eric Kornfeld, Bruce Vilanch (Additional Material);Choreography, Toni Basil; Original Stage Production Conceived and Directed by: Bette Midler
Drama SeriesPrivate Practice "Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?" (ABC) Mark Gordon Company, Shondaland; Creator: Shonda Rhimes; Written by: Shonda Rhimes,Directed by: Allison Liddi-Brown; Executive Producers: Mark Tinker, Craig Turk, Steve Blackman, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Mark R. Gordon; Co-Executive Producers: Jennifer Cecil, Barbie Kligman, Ann Kindberg; Supervising Producers: Fred Einesman, Ayanna Floyd-Ohl; Producers: Hans Van Doornewaard, Karen Wyscarver, Sanford Golden; Co-Producers: Chris Van Dusen, David Glazier
Actress Drama SeriesAnna PaquinTrue Blood"She's Not There" (HBO)
Comedy SeriesDrop Dead Diva (Lifetime, Sony Pictures Television, Storyline Entertainment); Executive Producers: Josh Berman, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Alex Taub; Co-Executive Producers: Bob Wilson and Jamie Babbit; Consulting Producers: Amy Engelberg, Wendy Engelberg and Bill Fordes
The WIN Awards 2012 were produced at The Paramount Theater on Paramount Studios. Actress Lisa Kudrow presented to Humanitarian Honoree, producer and philanthropist Maria Arena Bell.[76][77]
The show opened with a posthumous Joan Rivers tribute and featured guest comics Brittany Furlan and T. J. Miller who discussed and demonstrated how Joan influenced their comedy. WIN also honored filmmakers Lauren Paul and Molly Thompson, with its first Community Service tribute for having created Finding Kind, a documentary film about middle school female bullying. Their film launched a movement and school program based upon the powerful belief in KINDness, that brings awareness and healing to the negative and lasting effects of girl-against-girl crime. Wife of Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul, Lauren was bullied in middle school and contemplated suicide.[83]
The 17th Women's Image Awards ceremony was held at Royce Hall UCLA on February 10, 2016. Philanthropist and activist Irena Medavoy and documentary filmmaker Abigail Disney both accepted Woman of the Year tributes.[89][90]
The Starz series Outlander received five nominations, including a nomination in the Drama Series category. Caitriona Balfe, who plays the leading character in the show, also received a nomination in the Actress Drama Series category.[91]
Hosted by Carol Leifer, other guests included honorees, Irena Medavoy[94] and filmmaker, Abigail Disney,[95] who is the "Armor of Light" director, who said at the show: "It's time for women to start asserting themselves in media. The filmmaker, One of the Women's Image Awards' Women of the Year, says women need to work together and promote each other in order to overcome the challenges facing women in the entertainment industry and in society as a whole".[96]
Although Women's Image Network is a 501(c)3 non-profit, it has also supported several other charities including The Mary Magdalene Foundation, Women's Care Cottage, The Mission, Gilda's Club, The American Cancer Society. WIN supports charities whose efforts range from fighting homeless, rehabilitating prostitutes, curing HIV/AIDS and cancer, eliminating poverty, biodiversity conservation and wild animal rescue.[125] In some years, proceeds from the WIN Awards Gala have been used to fund other WIN events.
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