#GAReads | Women Made Them. Viewers and Critics Liked Them. No One Nominated Them.

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“Women Made Them. Viewers and Critics Liked Them. No One Nominated Them.”:

Elizabeth Cantillon has worked in Hollywood for three decades, first as an executive at Sony Pictures, where she helped steer the James Bond franchise, and now as a producer. In other words, she has seen it all.

But the current Oscar race has left her slack-jawed. Where are the women?

“It’s like ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’” Cantillon said on Tuesday, after female directors and films starring women were largely A.W.O.L. from the list of Golden Globe nominees. The Screen Actors Guild was similarly exclusionary on Wednesday, leaving out Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” and Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell.” Academy Awards handicappers predict that female filmmakers will also be sidelined when Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 13.

Read Nicole Sperling and Brooks Barnes’ full article at The New York Times here…