Related Research Articles
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad. Founded as the Screen Directors Guild in 1936, the group merged with the Radio and Television Directors Guild in 1960 to become the modern Directors Guild of America.
Residuals are financial compensations that are paid to the actors, film or television directors, and others involved in making TV shows and movies in cases of reruns, syndication, DVD release, or online streaming release. Residuals are calculated and administered by industry trade unions like SAG-AFTRA, the Directors Guild of America, and the Writers Guild of America. The word is typically used in the plural form.
Lady Beware is a 1987 American thriller film, directed by Karen Arthur. It stars Diane Lane, Michael Woods, and Cotter Smith. The film was marketed with the tagline "When fantasy leads to terror." It was filmed on location in and around Pittsburgh.
Martha Coolidge is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America. She has directed such films as Valley Girl, Real Genius and Rambling Rose.
Paris K. C. Barclay is an American television director, producer, and writer. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is among the busiest single-camera television directors, having directed over 160 episodes of television to date, for series such as NYPD Blue, ER, The West Wing, CSI, Lost, The Shield, House, Law & Order, Monk, Numb3rs, City of Angels, Cold Case, and more recently Sons of Anarchy, The Bastard Executioner, The Mentalist, Weeds, NCIS: Los Angeles, In Treatment, Glee, Smash, The Good Wife, Extant, Manhattan, Empire, and Scandal. In 2016, Barclay worked as an executive producer and principal director for the Fox series Pitch. In 2018, Barclay directed the pilot and served as an executive producer on the Shondaland show, Station 19, which follows a group of Seattle firefighters that exist in the Grey's Anatomy universe and stars Jaina Lee Ortiz, Jason George, Grey Damon, Miguel Sandoval, Jay Hayden, Danielle Savre, Barrett Doss, Okieriete Onaodowan, and Boris Kodjoe. The show is also executive produced by Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Ellen Pompeo, and Krista Vernoff. It premiered on ABC in March 2018 and is currently filming its fifth season.
Sharron Miller is an American television and film director, producer, and screenwriter. She is one of the pioneering women directors who worked regularly in mainstream Hollywood in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1984 she was the first woman ever to win the coveted Directors Guild of America Award for directing a narrative (non-documentary) work.
Karen Gaviola is an American television producer and director. She is the winner of the 2007 NAACP Image Award for directing "The Whole Truth" episode of the ABC hit series Lost. She was also nominated for the 2013 WIN Award for best directing of the "Georgia on My Mind" episode of the Shonda Rhimes series Private Practice. Ms.Gaviola has directed over 140 TV episodes, including the shows Lucifer, Shadow and Bone, Empire, Sons of Anarchy, The Blacklist, Hawaii Five-0, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Grimm, Criminal Minds and Chicago Fire.
Maria Giese is an American feature film director and screenwriter. A member of the Directors Guild of America, and an activist for parity for women directors in Hollywood, she writes and lectures about the under-representation of women filmmakers in the United States.
The celluloid ceiling is a metaphor for the underrepresentation of women in hiring and employment in Hollywood. The term is a play on the metaphor of the "glass ceiling", which describes an invisible barrier that keeps a given demographic from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy. Celluloid refers to the material used to make the film stock that was once used to make motion pictures. The term is usually applied to behind the screen workers only.
The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America. With 3 wins out of 12 nominations, Steven Spielberg is both the most awarded and most nominated director for this category in the history of DGA, and the first director to receive DGA nominations in six consecutive decades. Additionally, Alejandro G. Iñárritu is the only director to win twice successively; he was awarded in 2015 and 2016 for his directorial achievements for Birdman or and The Revenant, respectively. Two directing teams have shared the award: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007).
Jack Shea was an American film and television director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002.
Bury Me an Angel is a 1971 American biker film from female director Barbara Peeters, who was script supervisor on Angels Die Hard (1970). She was the first woman to direct a biker film. The film was acquired by Roger Corman's New World Pictures.
Jay D. Roth is an American lawyer who for over two decades served as the National Executive Director of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the 17,000 member entertainment guild representing the economic and creative rights of directors and members of the directorial team working in film, television, documentaries, news, sports, commercials and new media throughout the world. Following his long-planned retirement in May 2017, Roth began a new role with the Guild as Senior Advisor.
Susan Linda Bay Nimoy is an American actress and director. Among her television appearances, she portrayed Admiral Rollman in two episodes of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Past Prologue" in the first season and "Whispers" in the second.
Jan Haag is an American filmmaker, artist and writer who founded the American Film Institute (AFI) Directing Workshop for Women and also gained notability for her needlepoint canvases and poetry.
Women are involved in the film industry in all roles, including as film directors, actresses, cinematographers, film producers, film critics, and other film industry professions, though women have been underrepresented in creative positions.
The 72nd Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievement in feature films, documentary, television and commercials of 2019, were presented on January 25, 2020, at the Ritz-Carlton in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Judd Apatow, who also hosted the ceremony in 2018. The nominations for most of the television and documentary categories were announced on January 6, 2020, while the nominations for the feature film categories were announced on January 7, 2020. The nominations announcement for three television awards was moved to January 10, 2020 due to a re-vote delay.
The Original Six are a group of women directors who created the Women's Steering Committee (WSC) of the Directors Guild of America (DGA). Dolores Ferraro, Joelle Dobrow, Lynne Littman, Nell Cox, Susan Bay Nimoy and Victoria Hochberg formed the Women's Steering Committee of the Directors Guild of America in 1979. They carried out landmark research showing that women held only 0.5% of directing jobs in film and television, which they reported to the Guild, the studios and the press.
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean is a 1966 independent film about a young psychic woman whose powers are exploited by a boy band, directed by Juleen Compton. It was written by Compton and filmed in the Ozark mountains, and was the feature film debut of Sam Waterston. The film was shown at Cannes, which awarded the film as part of its International Female Week series, and at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Broadway Brawler is an unfinished 1997 romantic comedy film that was to be directed by Lee Grant and starring Bruce Willis and Maura Tierney. It was co-produced by Bruce Willis and Joseph Feury for Cinergi Pictures, and was to have been distributed by The Walt Disney Company.
References
- ↑ ""Original Six" who sued Hollywood studios in 1980s talk gender discrimination". Women in the World. 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ↑
- Smukler, Maya Montañez (2019). "Chapter 4: " Radicalizing the Directors Guild of America "". Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s. Rutgers University Press. pp. 262–271. ISBN 978-0813587479.
- Smukler, Maya Montañez (2014). Working Girls: The History of Women Directors in 1970s Hollywood. University of California, Los Angeles.
A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements of the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Film and Television
- ↑ Giese, Maria (2014-09-24). "DGA Celebrates Women Directors, But What's the Next Move?". IndieWire. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
