Whether the strong likelihood of a nod for Dunkirk meant the studio allotted more of its award season budget for Wonder Woman in both major categories, or instead focused the budgeting on lobbying for Nolan as a Best Director pick, remains to be seen. But all indications are that Warner gave Wonder Woman a strong push, and so far it's paid off with the previously mentioned attention from many award season orgs and shows.

“We’re starting, and it’s starting with these extraordinary actresses and brave ladies,” he said. “We, as men, have got to be part of it, you know? We started it, so we have to be part of the solution.”

Speaking on the red carpet at the world premiere of his new animated film “Early Man”, the British star was asked about reports of a significant pay gap between Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams for reshoots on “All the Money in the World”. “It’s incredibly important and I think that it’s been a long time coming, and I think the fact that last year three of the top films were female-led films is showing there is change but there is a huge amount of change needed yet. It’s sort of systemic I think,” Redmayne said.

"Movies don’t just emerge fully formed from the ether; they’re the result of the labor of hundreds and often thousands of people. Most of those people are men. For example: The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative looked at 900 movies released over nine of the past 10 years and found that only 34 women had worked as directors on those films. If women aren’t in key creative roles — say, if they’re being drummed out of the industry by pervasive, top-to-bottom sexism — then it’s not surprising that the resulting work is skewed. In other words, for every gratuitous sexualizing shot of a woman in a film, there is (almost always) a guy deciding to shoot it that way."

Patrick may have ended her career in obscurity, but her Gill-man went on to become a horror movie icon “that was immediately and forever associated with the 1950s,” writes Steve Kronenberg in Universal Terrors. Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro became obsessed with the Gill-man after he saw the movie as a boy. “I would draw the Creature riding on a double bicycle with Julie Adams [the film’s bathing beauty] having an ice cream, a triple-cone ice cream,” del Toro said in an NPR interview..

“What’s amazing about our station and fantastic about Seattle in general is we have three awesome women who are very strong within our station itself, and some of them are in positions of power. But if you look at Seattle, it has one of the highest percentages in the nation of women in firefighting, so that was a really important aspect to me in thinking about setting the spinoff.”

Contreras-Sweet has put together a group of investors, which include women from Silicon Valley as well as Lantern Asset Management, which would take a 51 percent stake in a reorganized TWC, assume the current company’s debts and also set up a litigation fund to handle any claims not covered by insurance. Contreras-Sweet's plan would include installing a female-majority board to oversee the company.

In a year in which the entertainment industry was rocked by harassment scandals, women’s stories have become more important than ever before. But even as waves of claims exposed destructive male behavior, toppled long-protected gatekeepers and finally, desperately insisted that women be believed, the slow but necessary shift toward greater representation of female voices took several important steps forward in 2017 with a wellspring of films featuring challenging, complex heroines who demanded to speak their truth without caring whether audiences liked what they had to say, or how they said it.

They found that male characters tend to be portrayed in higher positions of power and with more agency than female characters. Even after controlling for the disparity in number of roles, screen time, and quantity of dialogue between males and females, males consistently scored higher across all genres. Interestingly, this bias held true even for movies with female casting directors and screenplay writers.

Hollywood’s feminists have previously been accused of representing an elitist group, who are far removed from the struggles of ordinary, less glamorous women. The Time’s Up movement is a serious attempt to counter these accusations through showing solidarity with working women of all backgrounds and ethnicities.