Kathryn Bigelow

Andrea Stone

White House Gave Hollywood Filmmaker Access To Team That Killed Bin Laden, Records Show

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Obama administration officials made "a planner, operator and commander of SEAL Team Six" who killed Osama bin Laden available to a Holly...

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Joe Satran

No Movies With Female Directors To Compete At Cannes 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 05.17.2012

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With the international media assembled in Paris Thursday to find out which movies made the cut for this year's prestigious Festival du Cannes, festiva...

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Hollywood's Female Trouble: Part 2, The Directors

Xaque Gruber | Posted 04.04.2012

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Xaque Gruber

Even with Bigelow's Oscar win in 2009, why are the statistics for female directors (in both film and television) less than golden?

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Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden Movie Running Into Trouble

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 03.02.2012

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"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's movie on Navy's SEAL Team 6's hunt for, and killing of, Osama Bin Laden has run into more drama -- and major pro...

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Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden Movie Facing Protests In India

Posted 05.02.2012

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U.S. government officials aren't the only ones giving Kathryn Bigelow fits over her upcoming Osama bin Laden film. According to Reuters, the director,...

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Jordan Zakarin

Navy SEALs And The Military's Secret Hollywood Mission

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 02.21.2012

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A crack team of highly skilled warriors, outfitted with the most advanced weapons of the world’s most powerful military force, storms an enemy compo...

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And the Oscar Goes to... a Man: Gender Bias at the Top

Joan Williams | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Gender Equality, Gender Bias, Fortune 500, Academy Awards, The Oscars, Women Directors, Cognitive Bias, Entertainment News
Joan Williams

The myth of the meritocracy reigns supreme. But the top of the top is still dominated by men, in Hollywood and elsewhere -- and what's worse, progress may be stalling across the board.

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Stars Join Hollywood's War Over Bin Laden

Posted 03.07.2012

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Kathryn Bigelow's film about the military's hunt for Osama Bin Laden is on the verge of enlisting three new stars. According to a number of reports, ...

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Joel Edgerton Is Hunting Osama bin Laden

Posted 03.06.2012

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Welcome to Seal Team Six, Joel Edgerton. Your mission: take out Osama Bin Laden. The Australian actor, most recently seen in this fall's critically...

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Andrea Stone

Pentagon Probes Alleged Leaks On Bin Laden Raid

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has launched an investigation into whether the White House released classified information about the killing of Osama bin L...

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Two Of Britain's Best To Join Bin Laden Cast?

PA | Posted 01.11.2012

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Tom Hardy and Idris Elba could be in line for roles in Kill Bin Laden. The British actors are amongst the names in the running for Kathryn Bigelow'...

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Sony Makes the Right Decision in Postponing Bin Laden Movie

Govindini Murty | Posted 12.21.2011

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Govindini Murty

Sony's bin Laden movie had come under a firestorm of criticism earlier this summer when Maureen Dowd wrote that the film's planned release in October 2012 was "perfectly timed" to help President Obama win re-election.

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The Director's Guild of America Honors Alice Guy-Blache

Gerit Quealy | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Gene Stavis, Fist Woman Director, Anthony Slide, Cecil B. De Mille, Steven Spielberg, Slidepollajax, D.W. Griffith, Alice Guy-Blaché, Eadweard Muybridge, New Jersey Hall of Fame, First Movie Studio, Women News
Gerit Quealy

Pop quiz: Who was at the beginning of the film industry? D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. De Mille, and Alice Guy Blache immediately spring to mind, right? Yes! Wait, what? Who?

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Man Sued Because He Thought 'The Hurt Locker' Was Based On Him

AP | ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Posted 12.13.2011

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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Iraq war veteran who claimed "The Hurt Locker" was based on his experi...

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Bin Laden Movie Controversy Drags In Congress, President, Oscar-Winner

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 10.11.2011

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee sought an investigation Wednesday into the Obama administration's cooperation...

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Peter King Wants A Probe Of Osama Bin Laden Film, Feuds With Administration

AP | By LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 10.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, expected in theaters just weeks before the 2012 presidential election, is already generating...

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Movie Planned About Hunt For Bin Laden

AP | By DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 07.02.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- The filmmakers behind the war-on-terror drama "The Hurt Locker" are moving forward with an action thriller about the hunt for Osama bin...

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Killing Bin Laden Movie: Will It Happen?

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 07.02.2011

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Somebody get Kathryn Bigelow a rewrite!  Just as the Oscar-winning director and her screenwriting collaborator Mark Boal have been meeting with ac...

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Oscar Night 2030

David D. Burstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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David D. Burstein

Film matters. As a culture, we need good films, it's central to our way of life, our exchange of ideas, and our basic social interactions.

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Ten Women Directors You Should Know About

flavorwire.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kathryn Bigelow may have been the first female filmmaker to win a Best Director Oscar for 2009′s The Hurt Locker. But did you happen to notice that ...

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XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

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G. Roger Denson

The rise of feminism corresponds roughly with the expansion of the artworld to include women's production. This is a history that began predominantly in impelling women's art as an expression of the identification of women apart from men.

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Live-blogging the 2011 Oscar telecast

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

8:39PM EST Off to a good start with the hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, inserted into scenes from several of the Oscar nominees, on an Incept...

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Catherine Hardwicke's Lady Issues

Jamie Frevele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Catherine Hardwicke, Sexism, Twilight, Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter, Hollywood, Feminism, Oscars 2011, Entertainment News
Jamie Frevele

Catherine Hardwicke has decided to play the vagina card, whining about how the Big Bad Men wouldn't let her direct an Oscar-nominated Man Movie.

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Where Are All The Women In Film?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Kathryn Bigelow made history last year when she won the Oscar for directing 'The Hurt Locker.' She was the first woman to win the award, and only the ...

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Here's to Female "Troublemakers" Making History

Mary Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Murkowski, Kathryn Bigelow, Elizabeth Warren, Congress, Women's College Basketball Coaches, Women, Catholic Nuns, Corporate America, Nancy Pelosi, Women and Politics, Shirley Sherrod, Baby Boom, Virginia Phillips, Gender Equity, Baby Boomers, Politics News
Mary Hughes

For many women of the baby boom generation, "making trouble" requires a gentle nudge -- even in the name of worthy causes. Happily, that's changing.

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