Full Coverage: Hollywood’s gender gap

Usually it takes a fundraising politician or a glittering awards show to convene competing studio executives and Hollywood agents in one room in Los Angeles.

As a viewer, I greet the arrival of a new film directed by a woman with anticipation.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has begun contacting female directors to investigate gender discrimination in Hollywood.

Illeana Douglas is struck by one omission on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American movies.

At one point, potential backers of the movie “Sicario” encouraged its screenwriter to rewrite the lead character as a man in order to attract a big-name male star.

Brie Larson’s new movie, “Room,” is sparking an urgent question among fall film festival audiences.

Meryl Streep has only one four-minute speaking scene in the movie “Suffragette,” but it is as a woman who was a catalyst for a movement, turn-of-the-century British suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst.

Nancy Meyers was not allowed on the set of her first movie without a male chaperone.

Lily Tomlin was driving down Moorpark Street in the Valley, talking about that time she ended up on the news for cutting down her eucalyptus trees.

When a U.S. senator praises a movie studio for hiring two women, a Hollywood issue has officially entered the wider conversation.

On Valentine’s Day two years ago, film director Maria Giese met with U.S.

Behind Reese Witherspoon’s back, Sofia Vergara was lowering her eyelids in a mock, come hither stare.

Julie Andrews will take the stage at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre on Thursday night for a 50th anniversary screening of “The Sound of Music,” where she’s appearing with Christopher Plummer, her costar in the beloved best picture-winning film at the opening night of the TCM Classic Film Festival.

When Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for directing in 2010, it looked to be a watershed moment for Hollywood’s premiere creative profession.

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the Oscar nominations in January, the absence of any minority group nominees in the acting categories — for only the second time since 1998 — triggered a backlash of criticism and threats of protest. ------------ FOR THE RECORD: Oscars diversity: In the Feb. 24 Section A, an article about an increase in minority presenters at the Oscars omitted the byline of Times staff writer Lorraine Ali, who co-reported the story with Rebecca Keegan. — ------------ But Sunday’s Academy Awards show boasted the most diverse group of performers and presenters in Oscars history, as 15 minority presenters, including Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Lopez, Viola Davis, Idris Elba, Kevin Hart and Oprah Winfrey, took the stage to deliver the evening’s awards.

‘Wild’ director Jean-Marc Vallee describes screening the film for its real-life subject, Cheryl Strayed.

Chemistry is one of the most essential but hard-to-describe parts of the filmmaking process.

For this year’s awards season, The Envelope brought together a unique group of actresses, including rising stars breaking through to the next level and established stars breaking out into new roles and challenges, each earning some buzz for their current films.

Laura Dern is having a mother of a year.

When director David Fincher cast Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl,” he asked that she model her performance as the movie’s mysterious missing wife, Amy Elliott-Dunne, not on another actress or well-known icon but on Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the willowy blond bride of John F.

Her first day on the Seattle set of the comedy “Laggies,” Keira Knightley noticed something unusual about her director, Lynn Shelton: She knew all the grips’ names.