Women in Film’s 7th Annual Pre-Oscar Party

Women and Film threw its annual intimate cocktail party feting the female Academy Award nominees to kick off Oscar weekend on Friday evening.  

The 7th annual event was co-hosted by WIF President Cathy Schulman and award-winning actress Helen Mirren at luxe West Hollywood eatery Fig & Olive.

Over 30 nominees were in attendance including Sunday night’s Best Supporting Actress winner Lupita Nyong’o who brought her mother, Dorothy, as well as June Squibb and Julie Delpy.

Other honorees in attendance included Adruitha Lee (Makeup and Hairstyling, Dallas Buyers Club), Caitrin Rogers (Documentary Feature, 20 Feet from Stardom), Dede Gardner (Best Picture, 12 Years a Slave), Dorothy McKim (Short Film – Animated, Get a Horse!), Emma Tillinger Koskoff (Best Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street), Gabrielle Tana (Best Picture, Philomena), Gloria Pasqua-Casny (Makeup and Hairstyling, The Lone Ranger), Jehane Noujaim (Documentary Feature, The Square), Jennifer Lee (Animated Feature Film, Frozen), Jeremy Kleiner (Best Picture, 12 Years a Slave), Joanne Woollard (Production Design, Gravity), Joey McFarland (Best Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street), Kirsikka Saari (Short Film – Live Action, Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?), Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Music – Original Song, Frozen), Kristine Belson (Animated Feature Film, The Croods), Lauren MacMullan (Short Film – Animated, Get a Horse!),  Lydia Dean Pilcher (Documentary Feature, Cutie and the Boxer), Melisa Wallack (Writing – Original Screenplay, Dallas Buyers Club), Michael De Luca (Best Picture, Captain Phillips), Nicholas Reed (Documentary Short Subject, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life), Rachel Winter (Best Picture, Dallas Buyers Club), Robbie Brenner (Best Picture, Dallas Buyers Club), Robin Mathews (Makeup and Hairstyling, Dallas Buyers Club), Sara Ishaq (Documentary Feature, Karama Has No Walls), Selma Vilhunen (Short Film – Live Action, Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) and Signe Byrge Sørensen (Documentary Feature, The Act of Killing).

Additional attendees at the event, which was sponsored by Perrier-Jouët, M•A•C Cosmetics & MaxMara, included Arielle Kebbel (The Vampire Diaries), Cary Elwes (Psych), Cloris Leachman (Raising Hope), Gabourey Sidibe (American Horror Story), Gale Harold (Defiance), Elisabeth Röhm (American Hustle), Jaime King (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For), John Demsey (Chairman of the M·A·C AIDS Fund and Group President, The Estee Lauder Companies Inc.), Joely Fisher (Fatal Acquittal), Kate Flannery (The Office), Kelly Bensimon (The Real Housewives of New York City), Lake Bell (The Million Dollar Arm), Melanie Brown (Recording Artist / TV Personality), Sarah Paulson (12 Years A Slave), Mandy Moore, Riza Aziz (Producer, The Wolf of Wall Street), and more.

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