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On Friday night, WIF kicked off festivities for Oscar weekend with its annual WIF Oscar Nominees Party, celebrating the 75 women, both in front of and behind the camera, who have been nominated for an Academy Award this year. Standing apart as the only event throughout awards season that celebrates all the women nominees, the annual event has since 2007 celebrated the belief that collaboration between women, nonbinary and trans people is the best way to ensure more films are made by and for these identities. The WIF Oscar Nominees Party was presented by Max Mara with support by Major Sponsor ShivHans Pictures and Champion Sponsor Johnnie Walker (presenting partner of WIF’s 50th Anniversary campaign). The event took place at Catch Steak LA in Los Angeles and was designed and produced by Event Eleven.
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2024 Academy Award® nominees in attendance included Danielle Brooks (Actress in a Supporting Role, The Color Purple), Celine Song (Original Screenplay, Past Lives), Jeffrey Wright (Lead Actor, American Fiction), Luisa Abel (Makeup & Hairstyling, Oppenheimer), Trish Adlesic (Documentary Short, “The ABCs of Book Banning”), Maite Alberdi (Documentary Feature, The Eternal Memory), Raney Aronson-Rath (Documentary Feature, 20 Days in Mariupol), Suzi Battersby (Makeup & Hairstyling, GOLDA), Kaouther Ben Hania (Documentary Feature, Four Daughters), Nicky Bentham (Live Action Short, “The After”), Robbie Brenner (Best Picture, Barbie), Nazrin Choudhury (Live Action Short, “Red, White and Blue”), Stéphanie Clément (Animated Short, “Pachyderme”), Sandra Tapia Díaz (Animated Feature, Robot Dreams), Amy Durning (Best Picture, Maestro), Jacqueline Durran (Costume Design, Barbie), Sarah Greenwood (Production Design, Barbie), Elli Griff (Production Design, Napoleon), Jerusha Hess (Animated Short, “Ninety-Five Senses”), Rocío Jadue (Documentary Feature, The Eternal Memory), Tal Kantor (Animated Short, “Letter to a Pig”), Laura Karpman (Original Score, American Fiction), Claire Kaufman (Production Design, Oppenheimer), Ashra Kelly-Blue (Makeup & Hairstyling, GOLDA), Pamela Koffler (Best Picture, Past Lives), Lori McCoy-Bell (Makeup & Hairstyling, Maestro), Sara McFarlane (Live Action Short, “Red, White and Blue”), Ellen Mirojnick (Costume Design, Oppenheimer), Michelle Mizner (Documentary Feature, 20 Days in Mariupol), Yegane Moghaddam (Animated Feature, Our Uniform), Nisha Pahuja (Documentary Feature, To Kill a Tiger), Cornelia Principe (Documentary Feature, To Kill a Tiger), Denise Ream (Animated Feature, Elemental), Karen Ryan (Animated Feature, Nimona), Katie Spencer (Production Design, Barbie), Nadia Stacey (Makeup & Hairstyling, Poor Things), Thelma Schoonmaker (Editing, Killers of the Flower Moon), Karen Hartley Thomas (Makeup & Hairstyling, GOLDA), Jean Tsien (Documentary Short, “Island in Between”), Christine Turner (Documentary Short, “The Barber of Little Rock”), Christine Vachon (Best Picture, Past Lives), Diane Warren, (Original Song – “The Fire Inside,” Flamin’ Hot), Jacqueline West (Costume Design, Killers of the Flower Moon), Janty Yates (Costume Design, Napoleon), Julie Zackary (Animated Feature, Nimona), and more.
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Additional attendees included Eva Longoria, Abigail Spencer, Alok Vaid-Menon, AnnaSophia Robb, Bella Heathcote, Betsy Brandt, Brittany Snow, Cara Jade Myers (Killers of the Flower Moon), Charmaine Bingwa, CJ Perry, Dylan Mulvaney, Erika Alexander (American Fiction), Holland Roden, Delaney Rowe, Garcelle Beauvais, Gigi Gorgeous, Jameela Jamil, Jamie Chung, Jane Seymour, Jonathan Tucker, Kathy Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Kate Flannery, Kathryn Newton, Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key, Lake Bell (Actress, Director, WIF Board Member), Lili Reinhart, Mayan Lopez, Olivia Washington, Selenis Levya, Sharon Lawrence, Sherry Cola, Sian Heder, Tantoo Cardinal (Killers of the Flower Moon), Wendi McLendon-Covey, Zelda Williams, Zoe Lister-Jones, Amy Baer (WIF Board President), Cathy Schulman (WIF Board President Emerita), Christine D’Souza Gelb (Executive Producer, Past Lives), Domo Wells, Ellen Lewis (Casting Director, Killers of the Flower Moon), Gloria Calderon Kellett, Justine Conte (Co-Producer, Killers of the Flower Moon), Kirsten Schaffer (WIF CEO), Linda Yvette Chavez, Marianne Bower (Producer, Killers of the Flower Moon), Shivani Rawat (WIF Board / Founder & CEO of ShivHans Pictures), and more.
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40+ Oscar nominees were in attendance and all were honored on-stage and invited to say a few words and take part in WIF’s traditional Nominee class photo.
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Onstage, WIF CEO Kirsten Schaffer shared, “nNw reports from UCLA, USC and ReFrame released in the past few years illuminate the backslide of representation in front of and behind the camera. That combined with the cultural and political backlash women, transgender people, queer people, people of color are facing across the country means that our work as an organization and as a community is more important than ever.” She continued, “We’ve been here for 50 years doing this work, we’ll be here as long as it takes to achieve parity.”
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