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    Women in Film celebrates female Oscar nominees

    By SANDY COHEN | Associated Press – Sat, Feb 25, 2012

    WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Allison Janney celebrated their Oscar-nominated sisters at Women in Film's fifth annual pre-Oscar party.

    Of the year's nearly 200 Academy Awards nominees, 45 are women, said Cathy Shulman, president of Women in Film, Los Angeles.

    "You're the best of the best," she said Friday. "But you're only a quarter of the nominees."

    Women have consistently comprised less than 25 percent of annual Oscar nominees, Shulman said, "and it's important we work together to increase that statistic."

    Paltrow co-hosted the party at Cecconi's restaurant, where Oscar nominees and other female filmmakers gathered to talk shop, sip Champagne and celebrate their achievements.

    "We're smarter than men and better than men," Paltrow said. "I raise an imaginary glass to all the nominees."

    Paltrow's mother, Blythe Danner, was also among the night's guests.

    Shulman highlighted longtime Martin Scorsese editor Thelma Schoonmaker and flame-haired costume designer Sandy Powell as "part of the over-10-times club." Both are nominated this year for their work on "Hugo," and each has three Oscars already.

    The event's only agenda was to mingle and celebrate. Selena Gomez chatted with supporting actress nominee Octavia Spencer and "The Help" producer Brunson Green, while nominated co-star Jessica Chastain nibbled appetizers with friends.

    Nominees Viola Davis and Janet McTeer also joined in the festivities, along with female producers, composers, animators and documentarians. Also celebrating were actresses Shailene Woodley, Gabourey Sidibe, Jennifer Morrison, Jennifer Beals, Jena Malone and Ziyi Zhang.

    The 84th annual Academy Awards will be presented Sunday at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles and broadcast live on ABC.

    ___

    AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen is on Twitter: www.twitter.com/APSandy .

    ___

    Online:

    www.wif.org

    www.oscars.org

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    25 comments

    • Ebert
      Ebert  •  3 mths ago
      Paltrow can act, she can sing, and now she shows us she's a stand-up comedian!
      • Cedric Ortiz
        Cedric Ortiz 3 mths ago
        Paltrow can do none of these! She is famous due to her parents! I have failed to understand the attention given to her!
    • OhHenry
      OhHenry  •  3 mths ago
      You did all of them? Probably you did Rosy Palm and her five sisters.
    • pa_buzzcut
      pa_buzzcut  •  3 mths ago
      YAWN!
    • I said It
      I said It  •  3 mths ago
      Why did she toast with an imaginary glass? The bar cut her off?
    • jeray
      jeray  •  Seattle, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      I just looooove how all of these actors throw swank parties and pat each other on the back about how they look on TV. Its all for show, hey gwyneth!!! the real world doesnt give a shyte about you or your awards, do something with your life, besides pretending people care about YOU. Instead of the movie you were in.
    • jobim
      jobim  •  Englewood, Colorado  •  3 mths ago
      "We're smarter than men and better than men," what a truly moronic thing to say. not because it's true or not true - that type comparison can never be made. but because it's just another dumbs PC statement made so one group can feel better about themselves. . . she truly is an idiot
      • jeray
        jeray 3 mths ago
        agreed, and patting herself on the back for accomplishing what? pretending to be someone else? living off her mothers name? or glad that she got an award that doesnt mean anything outside of her world?
      • geniusandinsanitywalkdown ...
        geniusandinsanitywalkdown ... 3 mths ago
        Supposedly strong women are not afraid of a strong man (unlike the guest)
    • guest
      guest  •  3 mths ago
      Women in Film shows alot of class, and celebrates women who have achieved success in the Film Industry! there are also lots of men that support this cause, and are not threatened or jealous of successful beautiful women!
      • geniusandinsanitywalkdown ...
        geniusandinsanitywalkdown ... 3 mths ago
        It is true there are women who are not intimindated by a strong man (they dont whine and complain all the time rewfusing to give men credit for the good they have done, or complain of the ills women have done - those who value true equality are not blind to the faults of women or the accomplishments of men).
        .
        Feminists see the bad men do perfectly (and little if any of the good men have done) and are blind to the bad women do (though they see perfectly the good women do).
        .
        I would not call you a hater if you werent so oen sided about your hypocritical claims of just seeking equality
    • Intelligentdare
      Intelligentdare  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      women are beautiful , love em
    • Michelle
      Michelle  •  3 mths ago
      I'm looking foward to the acadamy awards..
    • G-
      G-  •  Newark, New Jersey  •  3 mths ago
      Its 2012 MOVE ON ALREADY..... why are so many women so miserable,jealous, and bitter. Understand one thing even if you get the things you want by #$%$ and complaining. The respect your ultimatly looking for from society WONT BE THERE. So continue to do things like feminists or grow up and start caring about humanity..getting the things you want will feel better when they are EARNED.
      • guest
        guest 3 mths ago
        fifty years retarded? insecure male with hate, and threatened by women! probably dresses in his mothers clothes!
      • geniusandinsanitywalkdown ...
        geniusandinsanitywalkdown ... 3 mths ago
        Strong women are not afraid of strong men (guest is NOT a strong woman - she sounds like a man hater to me)
    • Lexie
      Lexie  •  San Antonio, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      If you guys didn't wanna here about it why did you click on the story then?
    • Victoria
      Victoria  •  3 mths ago
      Don't look now, but your brutal side is showing....The quality of the comments made here by men here tends to bear out the truth of what Gwyneth said.
    • Mike
      Mike  •  Earth, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Because the men in film said "we still dont give a flying F%#& about the female categories... they should probably still be barefoot in some kitchen, and their awards should still be not recieving a beating for F%$#&*g up my dinner, or bringing me my beer too slowly."
    • geniusandinsanitywalkdown ...
      geniusandinsanitywalkdown ...  •  Tallahassee, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      So, you think you are smarter than men and that you are better than men
      .
      ("We're smarter than men and better than men," )
      .
      If you are so smart, why do you only get 25% of the oscars? Oh yeah, the world is out to get you (which is why you live longer, vote more and almost never die on the job while pretending to do equal work)
    • geniusandinsanitywalkdown ...
      geniusandinsanitywalkdown ...  •  Tallahassee, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Boohoo, we need to all shed a tear for the oscars women didnt get (and didnt deserve).......What nonsense (the oscars are already all about women and the men who love to be subserviant to them).
      .
      Is there gonna be a straight man in the house that night? unlikely (though many of them will drive the cars and keep the lights on - while the gay men pile in insults for straight men)
    • Val E. Forge
      Val E. Forge  •  3 mths ago
      Can you imagine the outcry if, say, Brad Pitt said, "We're smarter than women and better than women?" The battle cry of the hypocrite is "That's different!"
    • A Yahoo User
      A Yahoo User  •  3 mths ago
      They are failing to reproduce at replacement level, though. So ultimately there won't be a future for these womyn. Their genes are doomed.
    • darryl
      darryl  •  New Orleans, Louisiana  •  3 mths ago
      The book "Infidel" would make a good movie...Ayaan Hirsi Ali's life story is Amazing.
    • هاشم
      هاشم  •  Tehran, Iran  •  3 mths ago
      سلام
    • ZeuS
      ZeuS  •  3 mths ago
      No Gweneth, you are not smarter than us nor better than us. You are Sad products of BAD legislation that forces us to "include" you. You are Inferior! It is a shame that you Sad Sack Old HAGS include Selina. She is young, beautiful, and more talented than the lot of you combined. Hollywood is no more than a bunch of "Light in the Loafers" liberals kissing their own soiled behinds these days. You and your "FILTH" would never have made it in more conservative, talent requisite, moral times! You don't have any talent so Shut Up! Ha! Ha!
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