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Yahoo
20-03-2025
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Ask Chris: Who was the first female movie executive?
FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Sherry Lansing made headlines around the world when the former math-teacher-turned-model-turned-actress-turned-executive broke the glass ceiling of the movie industry by being named head of 20th Century Fox. The Oscar-nominated producer was honored with footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Lansing's appointment was a milestone, but not the first time ladies were in charge. 'Bottom line,' historian Mindy Johnson, author of Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation, says, 'there were more women in power — in front of and behind the camera — in the silent era, than there are today.' In 1912, actor/writer/director Lois Weber took over Universal's Rex Motion Picture brand. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were dating when they teamed up with Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith to launch their United Artists studio in 1919. Another actress, Mabel Normand, became a director and ran the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. 'The whole industry was small studios,' Johnson says. 'And many were owned and run by women.' Marion Fairfax, who adapted the dinosaur action epic The Lost World in 1925, was one of the women who formed her own production company. Producer Margaret Winkler was a titan in the animation industry, distributing Felix the Cat, Fleischer cartoons, and Walt Disney's first films. In 1945, Virginia Van Upp, who had written and produced hit films for Rita Hayworth, was chosen by Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn to supervise all production at stat studio, the last time a woman would hold that position for many years. Said Lansing in 1980, 'I hope as the new decade goes on, the appointment of a woman to a major post will not be so noteworthy: That it will become natural for women to have high positions in every industry.'
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Whoopi Goldberg Unveils Sudden Style Switch-Up in Grand Return to the Academy Awards After Almost a Decade
Whoopi Goldberg is officially back at the Oscars. The View co-host, who won the award for Best Supporting Actress for Ghost in 1990, stepped out wearing a shiny navy blue dress that featured a wide floor-length skirt, a form-fitting waist and folds of fabric that wrapped across her chest. 🎬 🎬 The gown was long enough to obscure Goldberg's shoes as she stood casually while posing for the photographers who were lined up along the red carpet, her hands dipped inside what appeared to be pockets on the outer edges of her skirt. Goldberg, who has hosted the Oscars four times throughout her illustrious career, hasn't been seen on the storied stage since she presented the segment for the Honorary Academy Awards and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2016. She was, however, seen in 2017's Mean Tweets segment, and presented at the Governors Awards, the year following. While the categories each presenter will cover are usually kept quiet by the Academy, according to Entertainment Weekly, Goldberg was expected to "appear on stage during a ceremony where her fellow Ghost star Demi Moore is widely expected to win Best Actress for her role in the 2024 body-horror masterpiece The Substance"—meaning the award for Actress in a Leading Role, in which Moore is up against Karla Sofía Gascón, Fernanda Torres, Mikey Madison, and Cynthia Erivo. The actress previously won her first-ever Golden Globe for the role and is widely favored to win, though Erivo's fans are crossing their fingers, as this win for her would make her the youngest ever to achieve EGOT status. Goldberg achieved EGOT status in 2002 after winning a Tony for Thoroughly Modern Millie. Other presenters include Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, and the four big acting winners from last year, among others: Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Emma Stone. Next:
