Women's Image Network Awards

Stuart founded the non-profit company Women's Image Network (WIN) to see women attain parity encouraging media makers to create dimensional female media images. In 1993, Stuart created and produced "THE WIN AWARDS" show.

Now in its 15th year, "The WIN Awards" will enjoy its inaugural broadcast in 2013.

Working for WIN, Stuart has secured participation from Susan Sarandon, Jane Fonda, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Senator Barbara Boxer, Lily Tomlin, Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, Maria Arena Bell, Lauren Bacall, Jane Campion, Elizabeth Guider, Lynn Redgrave, Cheryl Hines, Diane Ladd, Lauren Shuler Donner, Catherine Hardwicke, Christine Lahti, Gurinder Chadha, Mickey Rooney, Jane Lynch, Selena Gomez, Bruce Vilanch, Robert Redford, Pierce Brosnan, Carl Reiner, Will Sasso, Rachel Weisz, Seth Rogen, Sara Rue, Lea Thompson, Harry Shearer, Kathy Griffin, Melissa Peterman and Mary McDonnell, among many others.

Stuart's first network television show (the result of her very first TV pitch), was a primetime special she both created and Executive Produced for ABC entitled "50 YEARS OF FUNNY FEMALES" starring John Ritter, Annie Potts, Debbie Allen, Pam Stone and Paula Poundstone.

Moreover, Stuart delivered this show to ABC fully client-supplied, and secured fortune 500 and fortune 100 brand partners: Sears, Honda, Universal Studios, Colgate Palmolive and 7UP. Stuart's previous full-length documentaries include "I THINK I CANNES" featuring a who's who of Hollywood and "WHERE SCIENCE & SPIRIT MEET". Stuart also created and produced the "JUNGLE RESCUE" pilot to save America's captive exotic animals and two series pilots entitled "I SPA" featuring Laraine Newman and "GET INTO MY SHORTS" with Jason Alexander.

Stuart produced and in 2013, First Run Features theatrically released, her full-length documentary film, "BERT STERN: ORIGINAL MADMAN".

With friend and fellow season producer Andrew Sugerman ("CONVICTION", "PREMONITION") in 2013, Stuart launched Enthuse TV a company that produces live events and content for all media distribution including broadcast and cable television, broadband and mobile.

Along with fellow environmentalist JR Getches, in 2013 Stuart founded the community THE ANIMAL NETWORK an online source serving animal lovers and activists.

Emmy Award-winning Best Actress (and 6 times nominated) Mariette Hartley has established herself as an enduring star on stage (straight plays, musicals and an autobiographical one woman show), in 5 television series including "Peyton Place", "Courthouse" and "W.I.O.U.", countless television movies and talk shows and more than a dozen feature films. Mariette has also won 3 Clio awards, advertising's highest honor, hosted "Wild About Animals", "Healthy Solutions", and "The CBS Morning Program".

She is the award-winning national spokesperson for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and received an ``honorary doctorate from Ryder college. Additionally, she received the Woman of Achievement Award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Birth and her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Her autobiography, "Breaking The Silence" was a best seller in hard cover and paperback. Through her many charitable activities, she has become one of the top motivational speaker in the country.

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ARTHUR HILLER
Former DGA president, President (4x) Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (4x), director, Alan Smithee

(Burn Hollywood Burn)Carpool, The Babe, Married to It, Taking Care of Business, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Outrageous Fortune, The Lonely Guy, Teachers, Romantic Comedy, Author! Author!, Making Love, The In-Laws, Nightwing, Silver Streak, W.C. Fields and Me, The Man in the Glass Booth, The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, The HospitalLove Story, The Out-of-Towners, Popi, Tobruk, Tiger Makes Out, Penelope, Promise Her Anything, Americanization of Emily, "Addams Family, The" TV Series, Wheeler Dealers, Miracle of the White Stallions, This Is Rugged Land "Dick Powell Show, "Barbara Stanwyck Show"", The "Thriller" TV Series, "Naked City" TV Series, The Careless Years, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV Series, "Gunsmoke" -TV Series

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HENRY JAGLOM
Writer/Director: Rainbow Film Company

A Safe Place, Tracks, Sitting Ducks, Can She Bake A Cherry Pie?, Always But Not Forever, Someone To Love, Eating, Venice/Venice, Always, New Year's Day, Eating, Venice/Venice, Deja Vuˆ, Last Sumer in the Hamptons, Baby Fever, Festival

Henry Jaglom trained with Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio and performed in off-Broadway theatre ("The Uncommon Denominator") and cabaret ("The Compass Theatre") before coming to Hollywood in the late 1960's. Under contract to Columbia Pictures, he guest-starred on T.V. shows ("Gidget", "The Flying Nun") and was featured in a number of films ("PSYCH-OUT," "THE 1000 PLANE RAID)" including ones directed by Jack Nicholson ("DRIVE, HE SAID") Dennis Hopper ("THE LAST MOVIE") and Orson Welles ("THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND"), then directed each one of them in return.

Although Jaglom's film-making career began in the cutting room (when he helped edit the 1969 hit "EASY RIDER"), his roots are firmly planted in acting and he has co-starred in four of his own key films.

"I try to in one way or another tell the truth about our emotional lives up on the screen. I'm just not very interested, I'm afraid, in car chases, gun fights, special effects or invasions from other planets."

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NORMAN JEWISON
Film Director

Moonstruck, Other People's Money, Agnes Of God, Soldier Story

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ALAN LANDSBURG
CEO, The Landsburg Company, television producer
Nightmare In Columbia, Mother's Right:The Elizabeth Morgan Story, The Lottery-Country Justice

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SHERRY LANSING
Chairman, Paramount Pictures- Motion Picture Group

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LAUREN LLOYD
Producer
The Butcher's Wife, Dream Lover, Mermaids, Freddy Got Fingered, Drop Zone, Fires Witin

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BRYAN LOURD
Agent - Creative Artists Agency

CLIENTS: Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, etc

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DAN LUPOVITZ
Producer
Simpatico, The Velocity of Gary. Search and Destroy, Mrs. Cage, Late for Dinner

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AMANDA MACKEY
Top Casting Director

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LAURENCE MARK
Producer
Working Girl, Center Stage, Hanging Up, Finding Forrester, Riding in Cars with Boys, Bicentennial Man Anywhere But Here, Simon Birch, Object of My Affection, Deep Rising, As Good As It Gets, Oliver Twist, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Jerry Maguire, Cutthroat Island, Tom and Huck, Gunmen, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,The Adventures of Huck Finn, One Good Cop, True Colors, Mr. Destiny, Sweet Bird of Youth(TV),Cookie, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Black Widow

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JAYNE MEADOWS
Actress

The Story of Us, James Dean: A Portrait, Casino, "High Society", City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, City Slickers II, "Bold and the Beautiful, Player, The as herself, City Slickers, Murder by Numbers, Parent Trap Hawaiian Honeymoon, Masterpiece of Murder, Alice in Wonderland, Queen of Hearts, Da Capo, Ratings Game,"It's Not Easy", Miss All-American Beauty, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Gossip Columnist, Sex and the Married Woman, "Meeting of Minds" James Dean, Norman... Is That You?, "Medical Center", Now You See It, Now You Don't, "Steve Allen Comedy Hour, The", "Art Linkletter Show, The" Regular, College Confidential, It Happened to Jane, "Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret", David and Bathsheba, Fat Man, Enchantment, Luck of the Irish, Lady in the Lake, Dark Delusion, ... aka Cynthia's Secret, Song of the Thin Man & Undercurrent.

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CARROLL NEWMAN
Television producer

Wild Flower, Runaway Father

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PETER NEWMAN
Film producer

Swimming To Cambodia, zebrahead, Smoke, The Secret of Roan Inish, Sacetruckers, Dogfight, Interstate 60, Veeck As In Wreck, When the Sky Falls, 24 Hour Woman, The, And She Was, Janis, Lulu on the Bridge, Strike!

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STUART OKEN
Film / TV producer

Dead Poet's Society, Blossom, Empty Nest, Golden Palace, Nurses, Woops, Herman's Head, , Freejack, Impromptu, Queens Logic & About Last Night

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BONNIE PALEF
Writer/director/producer
Marvin's Room, Moonstruck, Parents, Agnes of God, Marvin's Room, The Cemetery Club

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SARAH PILLSBURY
Film producer

Films:
Desperately Seeking Susan, River's Edge, Eight Men Out

Sarah Pillsbury, a native of Minnesota, received her bachelor's degree from Yale. She moved to Los Angeles in 1974 where she began her career working in documentaries as associate producer on THE CALIFORNIA REICH (nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature) and attended UCLA film school.

In 1976, she co-founded the Liberty Hill Foundation to support progressive organizing in Los Angeles. In 1979, she produced Ron Ellis' BOARD AND CARE, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Subject.

Pillsbury joined forces with Midge Sanford in 1981 to form Sanford/Pillsbury Productions. Together they have produced eight feature films: DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, RIVER'S EDGE, EIGHT MEN OUT, IMMEDIATE FAMILY, LOVE FIELD, HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT, JOYRIDERS and THE LOVE LETTER. Additionally, they have produced four television films including the Emmy Award-winning HBO film AND THE BAND PLAYED ON.

Pillsbury continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Liberty Hill Foundation, as well as the Board of Directors of Artists for a New South Africa. This year, she joined the Board of Trustees of Occidental College. She is on numerous advisory boards, including the Minnesota Film Board, the Minnesota Independent Film Fund and the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. She is a member of the Social Venture Network and Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities.

Pillsbury has two children, Nora, 15, and Will, 11.

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POLLY PLATT
(Former Production Designer), Producer

Evening Star, Bottle Rocket, I'll Do Anything, Say Anything, The War of the Roses, Broadcast News

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PEGGY RAJSKI
Producer

Used People, Little Man Tate, The Grifters (co-producer), Brother From Another Planet, Matewan, Home For The Holidays

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ALEX ROSE
Film producer

Frankie & Johnnie, Nothing In Common, Norma Rae

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ALYSE ROSENBERG
-Executive Producer/Writer/Director

READY OR NOT (Showtime Series)- (creator), THE WHITNEY GIRLS, HOME LIFE , KISS 'n TELL, RUBY'S HAT, DO, I DON'T , 32 DOUBLE-A, & VIRTUAL MOM.

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FRED SCHEPISI
Film director
Russia House, A Cry In The Dark, Six Degrees of Separation, Plenty, Roxanne

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LINDA SHAYNE
Film writer/director

For The Love of Einstein, Little Ghost, Undercover Kid, From Across The Heart, Babes Like Us, TV-Sweet Dreams, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Princess Gwenivere & Her Jewel Riders

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LAUREN SHULER-DONNER
Producer

X-Men, Any Given Sunday, You've Got Mail, "Babes in the Wood", Bulworth, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, Volcano, (executive, Assassins... aka Day of Reckoning, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, The Favor. Free Willy, Dave, Radio Flyer, Three Fugitives, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Ladyhawke, Mr. Mom, Thank God It's Friday

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PAULA SILVER
Paula Silver currently serves as president of Beyond the Box Productions. This film marketing maven and film producer may be best known for creating the extraordinary marketing plan for the feature film Big Fat Greek Wedding. Paula was its marketing strategist and developed a marketing plan that relied heavily on grass roots and localized publicity strategy, and one that has continued to sustain its position as the longest running film in theatrical release.

When working for Walt Disney studios, Paula created the award-winning marketing campaign for Mr. Hollands' Opus, which revitalized 'grass roots' marketing for the film industry, and contributed to that film's $90 million box office take.

Paula served as President of Marketing and Publicity at Columbia Pictures Worldwide where she supervised a staff of over 100 people, managed a $480 million annual advertising budget and oversaw the development and implementation of marketing campaigns for over 18 major motion pictures each year including Boyz in the Hood, My Girl, Dracula, Prince of Tides and A League of Their Own among many others. Those campaigns were especially noteworthy because they succeeded in attracting a much broader audience than the studio's initial, primary demographic targets.

Paula has applied her communication skills outside the entertainment industry. She coined the slogan 'ONLY ELEPHANTS SHOULD WEAR IVORY' for the National Wildlife Foundation, creating a Public Service Campaign.

A passion for the arts, Paula is active in organizations and foundations promoting the arts and social well being. She created and currently sits on the board of The Mr. Hollands' Opus Foundation, the Dr. Keith Black's Brain Trust, the Morning Star Commission, Hillel, and The White House Project. She is on the board of the Women and Film Foundation. Her special interest in teen issues motivated Paula to organize and facilitate the First National Girls Conference, 'Girls Speak Out', at the UN in 1997. Paula's biggest creation are her daughter and twin sons.

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GEORGE STEVENS Jr.
Writer/director/producer

Thin Red Line, Bad City Blues, Kennedy Center Honors, Christmas In Washington, Separate But Equal

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ALLYN STEWART
Film producer

Driving Miss Daisy I Dreamed of Africa, Madeline, Bliss, Friends at Last

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CATHLEEN SUMMERS
Film producer

Stakeout 1-2, Sandlot, Dogfight, Vital Signs, Mystery Date

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ELLEN TRAVOLTA
TV/Film/Stage Actress

Mel, Passions, The Basket, "General Hospital", "Charles in Charge" (series regular), Circle of Violence: A Family Drama, "Joanie Loves Chachi", "Number 96", Human Experiments, Elvis, "Makin' It", Are You in the House Alone?, Grease, Courage and the Passion, "Wheels", President's Mistress, Intimate Strangers, Cover Girls.

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LILI FINI ZANUCK
Director/Producer-72nd annual Oscar presentation

The Sting, Jaws, The Verdict, Cocoon,Rush, Driving Miss Daisy, Clean Slate, Wild Bill, Mulholland Falls & Decalogue.

An Oscar-winning producer with a talent for finding and transforming unconventional material into box-office champions, Lili Fini Zanuck stands out in the motion picture industry as one of its most creative producer-directors.

Zanuck established her reputation for extraordinary taste and tenacity with her very first film, Cocoon, and fortified her stature with an Academy Award for her third effort, 1989's Best Picture of the Year, Driving Miss Daisy. Together, these two movies have grossed in excess of $200 million, garnered 6 Oscars out of 11 nominations between them, and twice led to Zanuck being labeled "Producer of the Year."

Lili Zanuck was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, raised throughout Europe, attended college in Northern Virginia and began her professional career as a research assistant at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Her move to Los Angeles in 1977 proved to be both a professional and personal turning point in her life when, soon after her arrival, she met and married producer Richard D. Zanuck.

At the urging of David Brown, her new husband's then partner in The Zanuck/Brown Company, Zanuck began working as a part-time researcher on a project in pre-production at the time, The Island, based on the novel by Peter Benchley. Crediting the producers with giving her an invaluable "intensive internship program," Zanuck gradually became involved with the company full-time, acting as production assistant and coordinating various behind-the-scenes activities on Neighbors, starring John Belushi and Dan Ayckroyd, and on the multi-Oscar nominated The Verdict, starring Paul Newman and directed by Sidney Lumet.

After two and a half years of "hands on" production work, Zanuck began tapping new, non-mainstream sources of material for the company - soliciting work from never before produced writers and cultivating working relationships with little known agents. Her unconventional approach led to her discovery and the company's subsequent optioning of an unpublished science fiction manuscript "about aliens and old people" which she personally oversaw through every stage of development over a four year struggle to get the film made. Co-produced by Zanuck, Cocoon was released in 1985 to critical and box-office acclaim, and went on to win Academy Awards for Don Ameche as Best Supporting Actor and for Best Visual Effects, and earned the Zanucks and David Brown the title "Producer of the Year" by the National Association of Theater Owners. Two years later, the entire cast was reassembled for the film's successful sequel Cocoon: The Return. In 1988 Zanuck and her husband formed the Zanuck Company in partnership with entrepreneur Jerry Perenchio. With the same perseverance that brought Cocoon to the screen, the producers struggled to find a home for another "unlikely" project - their new company's first endeavor, Driving Miss Daisy, starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman and Dan Ayckroyd, written by Alfred Uhry and directed by Bruce Beresford.

Although based on Uhry's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Driving Miss Daisy's commercial value as a feature film was considered by many to be questionable. All skepticism was proven wrong, however, when the humorous tale of an elderly Jewish matron and her black chauffeur earned 9 Academy Award nominations and won Oscars for Best Picture of the Year, Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Achievement in Makeup. It was also named "Best Picture of the Year" (Best Musical or Comedy category) by the Hollywood Foreign Press and the National Board of Review, and the Zanucks were named "Producers of the Year" by the Producers Guild of America. Honored internationally as well, it won two Golden Bears at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for Best Picture by the British Film Academy. As successful as it was celebrated, Driving Miss Daisy has grossed more than $100 million and ranks as one of the most profitable films in Warner Bros. history.

Firmly established as an award-winning producer, Zanuck made her directorial debut with the compelling drama Rush in 1992. Based on the best-seller by first-time author Kim Wozencraft, Rush starred Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh as two undercover narcotics officers facing their own struggle with drugs, and featured rock legend Gregg Allman in a classic film performance. Rush went on to win enormous critical praise for Zanuck's unyielding direction and the film's outstanding performances. The score, composed by Eric Clapton, became one of the most acclaimed of the year with the Rush soundtrack being certified Gold and the single "Tears in Heaven," Platinum. In addition, it was voted both Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the Grammys in 1992. Zanuck recently directed a music video, Pilgrim, for and starring Eric Clapton.

Zanuck directed an episode of the multi-Emmy winner From The Earth To The Moon, a joint production of Tom Hanks, Imagine Entertainment and Home Box Office, a 12-part miniseries based on the Apollo Space Program, which first aired in April 1998. Produced with the cooperation of NASA, this was the biggest, most extensive original programming venture in HBO history.

Zanuck's other producing credits with Richard D. Zanuck include Rich In Love which reunited the Driving Miss Daisy creative team of the Zanucks with director Bruce Beresford and writer Alfred Uhry; Clean Slate, a comedy starring Dana Carvey and Valeria Golino, directed by Mick Jackson ("The Bodyguard"); Wild Bill, Walter Hill's fact-based look at the legendary frontiersman starring Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges; and Mulholland Falls, a drama set in the fifties about a team of elite L.A. police officers, directed by Lee Tamahori, featuring an all-star cast including Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri and John Malkovich.

The Zanuck Company joined forces with Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood to produce True Crime, a suspense thriller based on Andrew Klavan's best-selling novel, in which Eastwood stars and directs. And, in collaboration with HBO, the Zanucks are developing Decalogue, consisting of ten one-hour films, each based on one of The Ten Commandments of the Bible, set in contemporary Los Angeles.

This year, Richard and Lili Zanuck will be producing the 72nd annual Oscar presentation, airing March 26th. This marks the first time a woman has produced this show.

Active in civic and philanthropic endeavors as well, Zanuck is on the Board of Governors for the L.A. Music Center and is a member of its Blue Ribbon panel, for whom she produced the first annual Winterfest 1987 - a fund-raising event to benefit all of the center's resident companies. A former chairman of the board of trustees of the Carlthorp School, the oldest non-sectarian private school in Santa Monica, Zanuck is also involved with the Institute for Blood and Cancer Research.

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PHYLLIS STUART, Founder