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By Dino-Ray Ramos

With production grinding to a halt in the face of the coronavirus, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory. To offer a better sense for how, The Hollywood Reporter is launching a regular series that focuses on how Hollywood's top writers, actors, directors, executives and more are living and working in these challenging times.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic that is currently overwhelming the healthcare system, protective gear and surgical masks are a hot commodity and many public figures are coming together to do their part in helping the medical community obtain more supplies. One of those people is film director Lulu Wang, known for The Farewell.

Director Lulu Wang, who won best feature for The Farewell at this year’s Independent Spirit Awards, celebrated her 37th birthday two weeks later by bartending for 300 fans. Announced the night before on Twitter, the event, held at noted Melrose Avenue fine dining restaurant Auburn (where her younger brother, Anthony, is a sous chef), was structured so that a drink order also bought a patron the opportunity to ask a question of the filmmaker.

Tomorrow is International Women's Day, so we're celebrating a little early by honoring some of the most iconic women who are changing film! As Hollywood is slowly starting to include more diverse voices, we've been seeing far more female directors, writers and producers finally have their names up in lights.

Rose McGowan is not among the many fans of Natalie Portman's look.In case you missed it, Portman like Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), and Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers) embroidered onto it. "I wanted to recognize the women who were not recognized for their incredible work this year in a...subtle way," she said on the red carpet.

Rose Mcgowan was not a fan of Natalie Portman’s “offensive” red carpet tribute to Hollywood’s female directors at the Oscars.

If you still haven't watched The Farewell, Lulu Wang's bittersweet film about a woman who returns to China after her grandmother has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, now is the perfect time to do so. The movie, which just took home the award for Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards, is streaming on Amazon Prime as of Feb. 12.

The Texas festival runs from March 13-22

SXSW has added a spate of new speakers to its 2020 conference lineup.Damon Lindelof, Lulu Wang, St. Vincent, Janelle Monáe and Michael Moore are among the keynote speakers who will attend the festival in Austin from March 13 to 22.Fresh off the release of critically acclaimed HBO drama Watchmen, Lindelof will speak with composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross about their collaboration on the music for the show.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Natalie Portman used the Oscars red carpet to make a statement about the female directors snubbed in the 2020 nominations, by having their names embroidered onto her cape.

Natalie Portman made a poignant message on the red carpet at this year’s Academy Awards as she sported a Dior cape embroidered with the names of every woman who wasn’t nominated at the ceremony.The actress, who herself has won an Oscar, revealed she wanted to recognise women in a “subtle” way as she took to the red carpet in the outfit which featured names including Little Women director Greta Gerwig and director Lulu Wang.

By Denise Petski

Making a statement. Natalie Portman stepped onto the Oscars red carpet ready to spread a message on Sunday, February 9.

Natalie Portman made a statement on the Oscars red carpet, with her Dior cape embroidered with the names of women who directed movies last year — and weren’t nominated for the 92nd Academy Awards.

Lulu Wang‘s “The Farewell,” a film snubbed by the Academy Awards, won Best Feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards (Image courtesy A24)

The Farewellwon the Spirit Award for best feature at Saturday's Film Independent Spirit Awards.The film's director, Lulu Wang, accepted the award and gave an impassioned acceptance speech, speaking about the importance of those with power on Hollywood to hire more female filmmakers."There's been a lot of conversation this year about how to encourage more women to be in film or get more women into the conversation," Wang said. "And I just have to that we don't have to encourage women.

LOS ANGELES — Chinese-American director Lulu Wang’s movie “The Farewell” won the top prize at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, while Adam Sandler was named best actor and made fun of his exclusion from Sunday’s Oscars.

The Farewell actress Zhao Shuzhen won her first Spirit Award at Saturday's Film Independent Spirit Awards.However, the film's director, Lulu Wang, accepted the honor on behalf of the actress, who wasn't able to leave her native China due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Lulu Wang’s poignant family drama The Farewell has taken the top prize at the 35th Film Independent Spirit Awards.

The 35th annual Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent cinema, are currently underway in Santa Monica. 

By Tom Grater

At the 15th annual Final Draft Awards on Tuesday, Lulu Wang was presented with the New Voice Award for Film by Parasite director Bong Joon Ho, where she flipped the script and revealed how much his work has influenced her own projects.After Bong, through his translator, called her film The Farewell "one of themost beautiful and delicate films of last year, and I'm not just saying as an Asian filmmaker — I'm saying this as a fellow director," Wang accepted her award on stage at the Paramount

Hollywood outcry is growing over Oscar nominations in the best director category, which again ignored women filmmakers on Monday. Instead of nominating Greta Gerwig for “Little Women, Lulu Wang for “The Farewell,” or Marielle Heller for “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opted to honor five male directors.

In a year when 10.6% of the top 100 highest-grossing films of the year were directed by women — a record level, according to a study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative — absolutely none of them were recognized by the Academy during the Oscars nominations on Jan. 13.

Here's some news to fuel your fire this Monday morning: The Academy announced the and Beyoncé and all the talent she infused into The Lion King didn't make the cut. Oh, neither did (), Lupita Nyong'o (Us), Awkwafina (The Farewell), Zhao Shuzhen (The Farewell), Taron Egerton (Rocketman), the entire cast of Parasite, and a host of women directors including Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), and Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers).

Female directors have once again been shut out from the Oscars, while Jennifer Lopez, Robert De Niro and Taron Egerton were also snubbed by the Academy.

Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” and Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” both flopped in China with dismal $261,000 and $212,000 opening weekends, respectively, according to data from Maoyan. 

“This is the only award show that matters. Best night of my life. I love it here,” Olivia Wilde quipped while accepting for Best Female Director at the 3rd annual Hollywood Critics Awards on Thursday night.

History shifted one joyful, mournful, comical bit tonight at the 2020 , as became the first woman of Asian descent to win the award for best lead actress in a musical or comedy movie.Looking like a glowy, sexy, Elizabethan mime, the 31-year-old accepted the award for her role in The Farewell, directed by Lulu Wang. The win marks multiple firsts—a history-making first for at the Golden Globes, as well as Awkwafina’s own first Golden Globe nomination, and first-ever dramatic role.

Awkwafina made history at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night (January 5, 2020) by becoming the first actress of Asian-American descent to win an award in the Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy category.

Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Todd Phillips, Fernando Meirelles and Lulu Wang discussed storytelling in a changing industry, inclusivity in filmmaking, distribution and the Netflix model and more on The Hollywood Reporter's Director Roundtable.Beginning Sunday, Jan.

Awkwafina just made history at the Golden Globes. The actress won best lead actress in a comedy for her performance in The Farewell, becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win the Golden Globe in that category.

Say hello to Golden Globe winner Awkwafina.