21.02.2015 Women In Film, including Meryl, toast Oscar
It's a ritual at the annual Women In Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party to call all of the new Academy Award nominees to the front of the room for a photo. This year, at swanky indoor/outdoor venue Hyde Sunset Kitchen + Cocktails, the 20-some honored ladies could barely fit in one frame.
"Look at how many women are on the stage this year," announced an excited Cathy Schulman, president of non-profit Women In Film, which provides grants and education for female members of the film industry. She hosted the champagne-filled soirée with Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson, who also beamed.
"Look at how many women are on the stage this year," announced an excited Cathy Schulman, president of non-profit Women In Film, which provides grants and education for female members of the film industry. She hosted the champagne-filled soirée with Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson, who also beamed.
| "It's such an honor to be here among so many amazing women," Hudson said as a toast, before rushing off to rehearse her performance for this year's Oscars. Among the honorees onstage were Meryl Streep (who entered to a "Meryl Streep is in the house!" greeting from Schulman and was surrounded by a circle of admirers thereafter), Laura Dern and Rosamund Pike. However, most of the women in the photo weren't onscreen talent: There was a mix of production designers, directors and producers who wore the symbolic Women In Film corsages reserved for Oscar nominees. Schulman said that she has seen a bigger number of women working behind the scenes in the film industry, specifically in producing. "'Producers' is the single fasting-growing group of women as regards to the movie business," said Schulman, a producer herself. "I think that's cool, because the producer is in charge of the whole thing." Writer/actress Lake Bell has also seen some more females behind the camera of late. "It's rare to have a lady DP (director of photography), but there are more female DPs coming into the mix now than I've ever heard," she said. Other mingling partygoers included Elle Fanning, Kate Walsh, Kate Flannery, Karla Souza, Emily Ratajkowski, Jamie Chung and Michelle Monaghan, who chatted it up with Rosamund Pike. As for women who'd like to be among the event honorees, Hudson offered this advice (before she left): "Whatever it is you aspire to do, dream to do. If you keep at it, it has no choice but to give in. Do it for the love, and everything else will come." |
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