Arts Mar 10 How the 2024 Oscars spotlight progress and continued struggles for women in film By Laura Barrón-López, Winston Wilde, Andrew Chambers
Arts Jan 14 WATCH: Greta Gerwig on the power of an Oscar nomination for female directors On Monday, Greta Gerwig's "Little Women" was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, but Gerwig was notably left of the Best Director list. Weeks before, Gerwig told the PBS NewsHour about what being nominated in the past has… By Joshua Barajas
Arts Jan 14 Oscar noms slammed for #DirectorsSoMale, lack of diversity Not only were there no female nominees in directing for the 87th time in Oscar history, there was also only one person of color, Cynthia Erivo, among the 20 acting nominees. By Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press
Arts Feb 24 Watch 2:58 A groundbreaking filmmaker finally gets her time to shine Kathleen Collins was one of the first African-American women to direct a feature film, but her work wasn’t widely released before her death from cancer in 1988. Nearly 30 years later, her daughter Nina Collins had the film restored, and… By PBS News Hour