This is the perfect example of why we need not just wider onscreen diversity, but representation behind the scenes as well.

Of 16 nominated screenwriters at this year's 90th Academy Awards, only four were women. That’s a major step up from last year, when Allison Schroeder was the only woman nominated, for co-writing Hidden Figures. And while there’s plenty of attention on the lack of female directors being recognized, it’s also important to acknowledge the gender disparity in nominated screenwriters.

Women have always been a part of Star Wars. And the docu-series Looking for Leia wants to tell their stories.

It's been a big week for exciting trailers, especially when it comes to female-led movies.

CherryPicks is a Rotten Tomatoes-esque idea with an emphasis on putting women's voices at the center of discussions of art and entertainment.

Evan Rachel Wood has recently taken the fight against abusers to Congress, where she testified in favor of an expanded Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights, sharing her own history of abuse and assault. Which makes her most recent film project all the more incongruous...or perhaps not. Wood stars in a new film out today called Allure.

There's a great piece over at The Muse today about female characters in films from the recent past that were framed as either villains, or unsympathetic in relation to their male protagonists, as well as the way many of us, in our ignorant youths, totally bought into those narratives. That is, until we grew up to realize that those women were actually better than the male protagonists and deserved much more than to be maligned by their own plots.

Madonna is obviously a legendary performer, and has navigated entertainment both as a musical performer and as an actress pretty seamlessly. Her film directing, however, leaves something to be desired. Regardless, she's decided to give directing another go in order to bring the life of a truly compelling subject to the big screen.

With the Headless Women Project, Marcia Belsky "seeks to bring attention to the still standard practice of fragmenting, fetishizing and dehumanizing the images of women we see in film, TV, book covers, and advertisement."

There's a new pop culture test in town. Like the Bechdel-Wallace test and the Mako Mori test before it, The Kent Test, which was introduced yesterday to celebrate International Women's Day, seeks to offer a way to measure the participation of women in the stories we tell. More specifically, it seeks to provide a more in-depth measurement of how women of color are used and portrayed.

As a society, we have really turned against romance, chick-flicks, romantic comedies, and romantic dramas. Not just men, but also female movie viewers, who were once assumed to be the biggest audience for those films.

We're very used to seeing rape as a catalyst in film, either to spur a man's story, or to be a woman's backstory. The Light of the Moon is important precisely because it portrays rape as something that is sadly normal, something to be gotten through in the day-to-day, not as the catalyst for major events.

"I was on this island going, 'There's not enough women, where are they?' I was running around looking for them."

The Oscars are over, but the mission of inclusion that permeated the ceremony has only just gotten started. One of the evening's most egregious snubs was that of Dee Rees for Best Director and Mudbound for Best Picture. Still, we got to see Rees deliver a killer speech when accepting the Robert Altman Award for Mudbound at the Spirit Awards this weekend.

Frances McDormand was gonna damn near hyperventilate she was so thrilled to win the Best Actress Oscar this year for her role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. But she demanded that if she fell over, that the crowd should pick her up, because she had things to say. Holy hell, did she! Check out her speech after the jump.

Well, another awards season bites the dust. The 90th Academy Awards show happened last night, and this year's batch of Oscar statuettes now sit in the homes of their respective recipients. Here is the full list of winners, and while overall the evening was hugely inspiring for many reasons, there were some disappointments that I think are worth addressing.

First, let’s get one thing clear: Nakia is the hero of this movie.