Despite being the movie of summer 2017 and breaking several box office records, Wonder Woman somehow walked away from the Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning without a single nomination. That means Patty Jenkins will not be joining the embarrassingly small list of female directors nominated for Hollywood’s biggest award (though this year’s set of nominations…
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Wonder Woman’s superpowers go beyond fighting bad guys. At the 2017 Women in Entertainment breakfast hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and presented by FIJI Water, Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot presented one lucky college freshman, Carla, with a four-year full-ride scholarship, paid for by Warner Bros., the studio behind the feminist blockbuster. “She’s strong-minded, opinionated…
Read moreOf the many things the Wonder Woman movie did right (a woman director, an all-female island, Gal freaking Gadot), the Amazons’ costumes are right up there among the greatest. After centuries of comic book writers and video game designers making women fight in naught but a boob window, at last we had some actually plausible…
Read moreLast month director James Cameron received some (justified) criticism when he called the titular character in Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman film an “objectified icon.” “All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood’s been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided,” he said. “She’s an objectified icon, and it’s just male Hollywood doing the same old thing!…
Read moreThe recent Wonder Woman film is feminist in its DNA. It’s directed by a woman (Patty Jenkins), has a strong female lead (Gal Gadot, who plays Diana Prince/Wonder Woman), and features a slew of women both in front of and behind the camera. This is a huge reason why the film resonated so much with…
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PHOTO: ©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection Diana Prince (a.k.a Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot) is very serious throughout the Wonder Woman film that dropped over the summer, and for good reason. She’s tasked with both defeating Ares and stopping the war outside Themyscira—not exactly chipper stuff. Still, there are funny moments in…
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