UnderWire Festival and Euroscript Oscars Takeover

This Tuesday 25th February, we are joining with our friends at UnderWire Festival to talk about Awards Season.  Nia Childs of Women in Film and Television, and writer Rachel Hirons, whose feature debut Powder Room starring Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone recently played in cinemas across the country, will be popping by to share their views. Book tickets.

UnderWire have drawn up a list of their own nominations along their own rules: women nominees only from films in any genre. To vote for your winner Tweet @underwirefest [category] [your vote] #WomenTakeoverOscars. We will be announcing the winners in each category on the night.

Best Director
Clio Barnard, The Selfish Giant
Haifaa Al-Mansour, Wadjda
M J Delaney, Powder Room
Lake Bell, In A World
Jeanie Finlay, The Great Hip Hop Hoax

Best Producer
Clio Barnard & Tracey O’Riordan, The Selfish Giant
Signe Byrge Sorensen & Anne Kohncke (with Michael Uwemedimo), The Act of Killing
Sara Woodhatch (with Richard Linklater), Before Midnight
Alison Owen (with Philip Steuer and Ian Collie), Saving Mr Banks
Tracey Seaward & Gabrielle Tana (with Steve Coogan), Philomena

Best Writer
Rachel Hirons, Powder Room
Clio Barnard, The Selfish Giant
Haifaa Al-Mansour, Wadjda
Amy Jump, A Field in England
Kelly Marcel, Saving Mr Banks

Best Editor
Thelma Schoonmaker, The Wolf of Wall Street
Nancy Richardson, Carrie
Alisa Lepselter, Blue Jasmine

Best Cinematographer
Rachel Morrison, Fruitvale Station
Reed Morana, Kill Your Darlings
Natasha Braier, Chinese Puzzle

Best Sound Design
Lora Hirschberg, Enough Said
Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Oblivion

Best Composer
Laura Rossi, Song for Marion (aka Unfinished Song)
Deborah Lurie, Safe Haven

XX Award (for representation of female characters)
August: Osage County
Wadjda
Powder Room
Blue is the Warmest Colour
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire


Submissions are now open for the 2014 UnderWire Festival - films under 20 mins in length are eligible. There are also categories for Acting and Under 25s.


Read Paul Bassett Davies thoughts on Awards Season on the Huffington Post

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