Sing, songwriter, actress and astute businesswoman Dolly Parton died in August 2026. We celebrate her many accomplishments in this newsletter along with two other women who combined singing and acting careers – Barbra Streisand and Queen Latifah.

School has already started in some parts of the country, and all the students will be back by September. Movies, especially coming-of-age movies, often highlight students in or just graduated from school.

The first woman nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, Marjane Satrapi, recently passed away. In her memory, this month’s newsletter focuses on her and other women nominated for that Oscar category.

Summer is coming! To celebrate, we honor two women from our book named June – June Mathis and June Foray – two giants in Hollywood history.

In April, we profiled some of the earliest of the 25 films selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2025. In this month’s newsletter, we are going to take a look at a few of the later selected films and the women associated with them.

The 25 films selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress have been announced, spanning the years from 1896 (a one minute short) to 2014 (The Grand Budapest Hotel).

The 98th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, March 15, 2026. Out of twenty-two possible categories, women were nominated in nineteen and won Oscars in thirteen of them.

The Academy Award nominations have been announced! The entertainment community and film fans around the world will turn their attention to the 98th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 15, to learn who will receive the highest honors in filmmaking.

Congratulations to all the 2026 Golden Globe Award winners! An honorary Golden Globe Award is also given annually for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment” and is named after its first recipient – The Cecil B. DeMille Award.

The two-part Wicked movie series features two strong female leads: Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West for those of your who watched the 1939 version of the Wizard of Oz movie every year during your childhood) and Ariana Grande-Butera as Glinda, the Good Witch.