The Women's Image Network (WIN) Awards 14 NOMINATIONS Announced -- Women's Image Network

The WIN Awards 14

Sept. 19, 2012 - PRLog -- The Women's Image Network (WIN) Awards are a blend of participating comics, musical performers and entertainment industry executives and artists together with powerful and poignant advertising, film and television clips.

As WIN works to level the playing field for all women, it invites the public to advance its mission and will invite people to participate in its second GIVE US THE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK auction. A few weeks before the awards show, WIN will hold a public, online auction called GIVE US THE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK in which it will auction dozens of personally designed and signed T-shirts created by current and former celebrity nominees, friends and winners. Proceeds will benefit the programs of WIN, a 501c3 non-profit charity founded in 1987.

The WIN Awards 14 Nominees:

Comedy Series
Desperate Housewives (ABC)
Up All Night (NBC)
Veep (HBO)
Parks & Recreation (NBC)
Whitney (NBC)

Actress Comedy Series
Amy Poehler Parks & Recreation
Whitney Cummings Whitney
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Veep
Christina Applegate Up All Night
Lily Tomlin Eastbound & Down

Made for Television Movie
Five (Lifetime)
The Girl (HBO)
Hemingway & Gellhorn (HBO)
Of Two Minds (Lifetime)
Game Change (HBO)

Actress Made for Television Movie
Patricia Clarkson Five
Nicole Kidman Hemingway & Gellhorn
Kristin Davis Of Two Minds
Sienna Miller The Girl
Jeanne Tripplehorn Five
Julianne Moore Game Change

Film / Show Directed By A Woman
Nicole Holofcener Enlightened
Lesli Linka Glatter The Newsroom
Susanna White Boardwalk Empire
Lena Dunham Girls

Documentary Film
E! True Hollywood Story: Giuliana Rancic (E! Entertainment)
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now (HBO)
True Hollywood Story Joan & Melissa (E! Entertainment)
E! Entertainment Special: LeAnn Rimes (E! Entertainment)

Feature Film & Actress Feature Film
TBA

Film / Show Written By A Woman
Vanessa Taylor Hope Springs
Tina Fey 30 Rock
Gwyneth Hughes The Girl
Barbara Turner (& Jerry Stahl)
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Lena Dunham Girls
Raelle Tucker True Blood

Show/Film Produced By A Woman
Whitney Cummings Whitney
Amanda Jenks, Helena Ely (Head of Production), Genevieve Hofmeyr, Lucy Richer (Executive Producer BBC) & Leanne Klein (Executive Producer) The Girl
Jennifer Aniston, Paula Wagner, Marta Kauffman, Kristin Hahn & Francesca Silvestri Five
Emily Spivey Up All Night
Teri Kennedy Best Ink
Chelsea Handler Chelsea Lately

Reality Series
Whale Wars (Animal Planet)
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO Sports)
River Monsters (Animal Planet)
Best Ink (Oxygen)
Pit Bulls and Parolees (Animal Planet)

Drama Series
Scandal (ABC)
Grimm (NBC)
Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
Smash (NBC)
The Newsroom (HBO)

Actress Drama Series
Emilia Clarke Game of Thrones
Kelly Macdonald Boardwalk Empire
Katharine McPhee Smash
Olivia Munn The Newsroom
Debra Messing Smash

Advertising
“Blind Spot” Leo Burnett
“Push Girls” Sundance Channel
“Raccoon” Leo Burnett
“Breathe Easy” Grey New York
“Best Job” W+K, Portland
“Release The Hounds” Venables Bell & Partners
“Wayne” Venables Bell & Partners
“What Will You Gain When You Lose?” Leo Burnett “Mean Stinks” Leo Burnett
“School Play” Venables Bell & Partners

About WIN & The WIN Awards
In addition to creating The WIN Awards show, WIN has also produced The WINFemme Film (aka The WIN Film) Festival and an ABC Primetime Special entitled 50 YEARS OF FUNNY FEMALES.

Women's Image Network, (WIN) & The WIN Awards show encourage and applaud media artists who create dimensional female film and television images advancing equal rights, gender equality and dignity. But WIN doesn't simply put on an awards show that applauds excellence, this event serves as powerful advocacy tool. WIN supporters know that until women and girls everywhere are liberated from poverty and injustice, world peace, security, and sustainable development is jeopardized.

Since 1993, the non-profit corporation Women's Image Network has produced The WIN Awards to honor outstanding individuals in politics, business, music and the media who promote gender parity through their creativity and leadership. Women's Image Network, (WIN), produces The WIN Awards to thank those who advance opportunities for women by creating dimensional female media images. While The WIN Awards began in 1993 to present awards to outstanding film and television individuals they awards have grown into a juried awards show in which networks and studios submit work on a competition basis.

Each year since 1993, in addition to celebrating an illustrious honoree, the film studios, advertising agencies and television networks enter The WIN Awards to compete for a tribute in one of its twelve categories.

Moreover, The WIN Awards have previously been chaired by Susan Sarandon, Sid Ganis and Jane Fonda while a few former WIN Award honoree recipients include: Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Senator Barbara Boxer, Lily Tomlin, Lauren Bacall, Jane Campion, Elizabeth Guider, Lynn Redgrave, Diane Ladd, Lauren Shuler Donner, Catherine Hardwicke, Christine Lahti and Gurinder Chadha.

Former participants, hosts and presenters include: Selena Gomez, Emille Hirsch, Mickey Rooney, Francis Fisher, Jane Lynch, Carl Reiner, Rachel Weisz, Katy Holmes, Seth Rogen, Emily Mortimer, Sara Rue, Miranda Richardson, Sally Hawkins, Meryl Streep, Lea Thompson, Harry Shearer, Kathy Griffin, Paula Poundstone, Wendy Liebman, Robert Redford, Pierce Brosnan and Mary McDonnell, among many others.

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