Both Jill and Barbara have undertaken international travel during 2023. One of those countries was Italy. This month’s newsletter features movies set in Italy or where Italy plays an important role. Click here to read the newsletter.

Honorary Oscars are customarily given during the fall before the Academy Awards ceremony. The awardees for 2024 have been announced. They are actress Angela Bassett, editor Carol Littleton, and director Mel Brooks. Michelle Satter will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Click here to read the newsletter.

It is June. The kids are out of school and summer is upon us. For this month’s newsletter, we focus on some movies where summer is used as a plot device.

Each year in May, the U.S. celebrates Mother’s Day. Thus, we decided in this month’s newsletter to feature some iconic movies where motherhood was fundamental to the story.

EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major American art awards. To date, only eighteen people have achieved EGOT status.

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, March 12 in a largely controversy-free event. Click here to read the newsletter.

The Academy Award nominations have been announced!

Each year during the Academy Awards, a montage of photos is shown of those who passed away since the previous Oscar ceremony. Two of those photos in 2023 will mourn Angela Lansbury and Louise Fletcher.

People have a fascination with horror movies and psychological thrillers. The psychological rationales vary, but primal fears trigger adrenaline, endorphins, and dopamine. Women have contributed to some of the highest-ranked movies of all time in these genres.

Five quarters memorializing women are being launched each year beginning in 2022 and continuing through 2025. The honorees for 2022 include Maya Angelou, Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, and Adeline Otero-Warren. The fifth quarter in the American Women Quarters program which began shipping in late October 2022 features Anna May Wong.