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'Wonder Woman' Was Snubbed by the Oscars, and People Are Not Happy About It


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 does include one female director, Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird). It also means Gal Gadot is not among the nominated actresses for her portrayal of a warrior who has to go through an incredible emotional journey and still balance a sword in the back of her dress without the help of double-sided tape. Movies that did receive a nod, though, include Boss Baby. (#NoDisrespectToHansZimmer)

The snub has created some major frustration among Wonder Woman fans, who have done what frustrated moviegoers always do: taken to Twitter to vent. They were quick to point out even if you don’t believe the DC film should have been a contender for an acting or directing nod, it should have at least been a contender in something like Best Costume Design because again, a sword in a dress!

Wonder Woman might not have a shot at taking home a golden statue this March, but the franchise is still a leader in the industry for one very important reason. The highly anticipated sequel will be the first film to put the Producers Guild of America’s anti-sexual-harassment guidelines into effect. The guidelines will provide not only anti-harassment education but also a clear system to allow victims of harassment to report it.

Below, just a sampling of the response to Wonder Woman‘s snub:





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Watch Gal Gadot Surprise a College Student With the First Ever 'Wonder Woman' Scholarship


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 and gutsy. She wants to be a screenwriter, and she’s already impressed everyone who knows her—her fellow mentees, her professors, and everyone in this room who’s met her,” Gal said in a speech before bestowing the scholarship to the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles student. “She won’t be able to continue at LMU without this funding. Similar to many other great young women in this program, her education is hanging by a thread.”

The scholarship was a complete surprise to its recipient, who accepted it at the event’s podium by saying, “I knew something was up! Y’all are sneaky.” In her speech she thanked her mentors and her parents and said, “All I can think about right now are how many papers I have to write for my finals, and now I have to do it because of this!”

Gal seemed just as excited to give the award as Carla was to receive it; she posted a picture from the event to Instagram with the caption, “It was such an honor to be able present the first ever Wonder Woman scholarship yesterday to this WONDERful woman, Carla at the THR Women In Entertainment Event.”

“I’ve had the privilege of portraying a superhero onscreen, but the young women here today are the real superheroes…They’ve overcome so many challenges in their lives, and they’re driven to do more. They’re the true leaders of tomorrow,” the actress said in her speech, per The Hollywood Reporter. Gal herself knows the benefit of a good education; she was in law school when she first decided to try acting.

This is the first year that a Wonder Woman scholarship has been awarded, but we certainly hope that as female-fronted superhero movies become more popular, so too do educational opportunities for young women.

Watch the full video here:

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Related: Gal Gadot’s Daughter Is Not Impressed That Her Mom Is Wonder Woman





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'Wonder Woman' Fans Aren't Happy With New Costumes in 'Justice League'


Of 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 ass-kicking gear. The ladies of Themyscira wear literal breastplates, female gaze–friendly leathers, midriff armor, and, most importantly, more than just a bra. We can thank costume designer Lindy Hemming, who said she wanted to design armor that was simultaneously “authentic and real” and “hot as hell.”

But, if Internet speculation is to be believed, it looks like the upcoming Justice League movie had other plans—and fans are not happy. On Sunday, cosplayer Kimi (AKA GoldenLassoGirl) obtained what appear to be photos of the Amazons from Justice League. Gone are the breastplates, the armored knee-high boots, and the ab coverage. (Seriously, where’s the ab coverage?) Instead, we have Zeus’ elite group of legendary women warriors lounging around in something more akin to that infamous Princess Leia slave costume.

“Why mess with perfection?” asked Kimi on a blog post calling out the change. “Oh, right. The all-male team of directors and executive directors wanted women to fight in bikinis.” Justice League is directed by Zack Snyder, and the new costumes appear to be designed by Michael Wilkinson, instead of Hemming.

Kimi’s post spread like wildfire, and photos of the alleged new costumes quickly caused an uproar on social media. “In case you wonder: Here’s a picture of how the Amazons looked in Wonder Woman…next to pic how they look in Justice League,” wrote @Rosgakori in a viral tweet. “First designed by Lindy Hemming, second by Michael Wilkinson. Some steps backwards, methinks.”

Other users chimed in, with Melissa Silverstein, artistic director of the Athena Film Festival, calling it “a fantastic example of the difference between the male and female gaze” in another widely circulated tweet.

Since the photos surfaced, it appears as though the redesigned costumes may be for a flashback to a past era of Themyscira, making it a literal “step backward.” And social media stands divided on whether the present-day Amazonians in Justice League have more revealing costumes than the ones we saw in Wonder Woman, as shown in the tweets below.

We’ll have to wait for the film or officials photos to be released in order to know for sure what the Amazons’ costumes look like. (We’ve reached out to representatives for comment and will update this post once we’ve heard back.) But given the record-breaking numbers Wonder Woman pulled in last year, angering this fan base might not be the best idea.

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James Cameron Just Doubled Down on His Troubling Comments About 'Wonder Woman'


Last 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! I’m not saying I didn’t like the movie but, to me, it’s a step backward.”

Jenkins herself responded to Cameron’s comments on Twitter, writing,”[His] inability to understand what Wonder Woman is, or stands for, to women all over the world is unsurprising as, though he is a great filmmaker, he is not a woman…. If women have to always be hard, tough, and troubled to be strong, and we aren’t free to be multidimensional or celebrate an icon of women everywhere because she is attractive and loving, then we haven’t come very far, have we?”

Of course, Jenkins hit the nose on the head with her response. Wonder Woman was directed by a woman, removing the male gaze that is often present with female characters in action films. Yes, Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) is physically beautiful, but her attractiveness isn’t commodified in a gratuitous, tongue-wagging way.

Unfortunately Cameron still doesn’t view it this way. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he doubled down on his comments, essentially saying Gadot’s conventional beauty prevents Wonder Woman from being progressive.

“Yes, I’ll stand by that,” he said. “I mean, [Gadot] was Miss Israel, and she was wearing a kind of bustier costume that was very form-fitting. She’s absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. To me, that’s not breaking ground.”

Cameron says his original comments were in the context of talking about a female lead in one of his own popular franchises, The Terminator: Sarah Connor, played by Linda Hamilton. He says Hamilton’s portrayal of Sarah in 1991 was a breakthrough because there wasn’t “anything sexual about her character.”

“[She] was about angst, it was about will, it was about determination,” he said. “She was crazy, she was complicated…. She wasn’t there to be liked or ogled, but she was central, and the audience loved her by the end of the film.”

Here’s the thing, though: Gadot’s Wonder Woman is complicated, too. The fact that she’s wearing a tight uniform—which was just the Wonder Woman costume—doesn’t negate the nuanced character development we witnessed on screen.

It’s troubling that Cameron still contends Gadot’s Wonder Woman was treated like a sex object because many critiques of the film point to the contrary. Yes, Hamilton’s performance in The Terminator was groundbreaking, but so is the fact that we finally saw a female superhero on film not manipulated by the male gaze. She wasn’t an object, plain and simple. Jenkins made sure of that. It’s extremely possible for female characters to be “hot” and angsty and complicated all at once.

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The 'Wonder Woman' Set Was Largely Comprised of Women—and It Made a 'Noticeable' Difference


The 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 audiences when it hit theaters this past June. Plus, the fact that we finally saw women in superhero films not being manipulated by the male gaze was so exciting.

The Wonder Woman ensemble agrees. In this new behind-the-scenes exclusive clip, the cast reveals that their shooting experience would’ve been entirely different if Jenkins, a woman, wasn’t at the helm.

“Wonder Woman was something that, all of her life, Patty was very passionate about and she was very opinionated about her,” Gadot said.

It’s this passion that led to Wonder Woman’s creatively open set, which Robin Wright, who plays Antiope in the film, found liberating.

“It was so refreshing to work with a woman who was so open and available and excited by all that everyone brought,” Wright said. “You’re surround by 180-something women on the set. You think that energy wasn’t different? It was noticeable.”

Watch the clip for yourself, below:

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That energy was transferred to audience members, too. Wonder Woman‘s impact was astronomical. One kindergarten teacher wrote that the film caused several of her female students to find their superhero potential. One viewer found comfort in Wonder Woman’s realistic-looking thighs—and she wrote a now-viral Tumblr post about it. This movie pushed the feminist dial forward in many ways. We’re a better world because of it.

And now you can watch it whenever you want. Wonder Woman hits DVD stands today.

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Gal Gadot Just Shared the Funniest 'Wonder Woman' Bloopers on Instagram


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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 Wonder Woman mixed in with the many, many shots of Diana being a badass warrior.

But none of those scenes even compare to the silliness that took place behind-the-scenes on set. Gadot just posted a few Wonder Woman outtakes of herself and Chris Pine on Instagram over the weekend, and they’re hilarious. (I mean, they should be—bloopers are funny by definition.) The video is especially great, though, because it’s such a stark contrast to the no-nonsense Diana Prince we watched kick butt in the film.

It’s amazing: Even when they’re tripping, bumping into each other, and spilling ice cream all over their hands, Gadot and Pine are still two of the hottest people alive. Watching these two slam into each other while trying to fit into a door is a work of art, to be honest. In fact, they each deserve Oscars based on this blooper reel alone. Check it out for yourself, below:

“Okay, first, you can see why Chris’s nickname for me was giggle Gadot?,” Gadot captioned the video. “And how Patty and I could communicate with no words. Instead just weird sounds & head movements.. I LOVE to laugh and I ABSOLUTELY enjoyed filming every second of the movie about the Amazonian princess.”

Our only complaint? We wish we had more bloopers! It’s a good thing the Wonder Woman DVD comes out September 19. This is just a small teaser of the funnies to come.

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