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I'm going to translate a series of articles that Stefán Karl wrote for the news website of Kvennablaðið, unfortunately Kvennablaðið has been discontinued and the site no longer exists.

But thankfully, the articles that Stefán Karl wrote were archived on archive.org and as a way to archive them further, I'm going to translate all of them.

Something to note first, while the text is intact, a lot of the images weren't archived properly so they're lost, I'm also going to leave some misspellings as is in the articles just for the sake of archiving.

This is part 1 of 8:

Original article: https://web.archive.org/web/20150325155620/http://kvennabladid.is/2014/01/20/heidursverdlaun-eru-ekki-fyrir-konur/

Honorary awards are not for women

Published on 20 Jan 2014 Tags: honorary award • Hollywood • Actresses • Discrimination • Oscars. television • Stefán Karl

Since 1938, the Hollywood Film Academy has awarded several select individuals an honorary award at the Academy Awards for their contributions to the film industry. The festival is actually divided into the main festival, which we know well and is televised live, but first there is another festival is held shortly before where other branches of the film industry compete for awards in categories that are not considered a reason to broadcast. It should be noted that these categories are nevertheless important elements in excellent filmmaking.

But if we just take a look at the main festival and look at the division of the awards, a number of interesting things come to light. The first to receive the actual honorary award was W.D Griffith, who at the time had produced over 500 films, both short and full-length, and was therefore well-deserved.

Now, 78 years later, and about the same number of honorary awards later, only ten adult women have been awarded the coveted honorary award, including nine actresses. Very few female child stars such as Judy Garland and Shirley Temple have received statues of honor (miniature statuette) for their acting.

This certainly raises the question of whether there were only a few women that worked in Hollywood? Are women being discriminated against here? No answer is available, but insiders at the Academy have argued that this is simply because not as many women have been involved in the development of the film industry from the beginning. And because women don't have the same responsibilities within the business as men.

Others have sharply criticized this, arguing that women are less productive and less powerful than men, and in fact many women are in the most powerful positions in Hollywood.

Here are the women who have received the honorary award from the beginning:

The list of men can be found all over the internet and it's not on the agenda to list them all here. But to make it easier for the academy to choose and for our own information, we can look at a great list of outstanding women who should all receive the Academy Award for their contribution to film, acting, production, directing or screenwriting, to just name a few.

The first list is of women who are still alive, the second list is of women who all have passed over the great mist without having received the coveted statue of honor. These lists are certainly not exhaustive and no doubt there are names that some disagree with and others may want to add more names. Let's look at these names and honor women in Hollywood and don't forget that without them the film industry would be much poorer.

Here are some women artists in various branches of the film industry who are still alive, some in full swing, who haven't received honorary awards:

Danielle Darrieux, Doris Day, Michèle Morgan, Julie Andrews, Julie Christie, Joan Fontaine, Eleanor Parker, Eva Marie Saint, Joanne Woodward, Catherine Deneuve, Claire Bloom, Mia Farrow, Vanessa Redgrave, Marsha Hunt, Liv Ullmann, Micheline Presle, Shirley MacLaine, Isabelle Huppert, Goldie Hawn, Deanna Durbin, Isabelle Adjani, Debbie Reynolds, Maureen O’Hara, Leslie Caron, Julie Harris, Susan Sarandon, Gena Rowlands, Claudia Cardinale, Bibi Andersson, Machiko Kyo, Faye Dunaway, og Angela Lansbury,Gina Lollobrigida, Anouk Aimée, Ellen Burstyn, Sissy Spacek, Jane Alexander, Diane Keaton, Marsha Mason, Piper Laurie, Karen Black, Ann-Margret, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone, Shirley Jones, Liza Minnelli, Valentina Cortese, Jane Powell, Cicely Tyson, Carroll Baker, Samantha Eggar, Silvia Pinal, Debra Winger, Sarah Miles, Margaret Ménégoz, Kathleen Kennedy, Jeanne Moreau, Nicole Garcia, Monica Vitti, Barbra Streisand, Lee Grant, Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, Barbara Hammer, Lina Wertmüller, Anne V. Coates, Harriet Frank Jr., Glenn Close, Joan Fontaine, Eleanor Parker, Jane Alexander, Isabelle Huppert, Agnès Varda, Danielle Darrieux, Mia Farrow, Maureen O’Hara. Olivia de Havilland, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson, Luise Rainer, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, Jessica Lange, Barbara Kopple, Thelma Schoonmaker, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Barbra Streisand and more and more.

Deceased women artists:

Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Hepburn, Jill Clayburgh, Jennifer Jones, Jean Simmons, Rosalind Russell, Marlene Dietrich, Janet Gaynor, Alida Valli, Simone Signoret, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Paulette Goddard, Anna Magnani, Ava Gardner, Mae West, Miriam Hopkins, Ginger Rogers, Patricia Neal, Janet Leigh, Susan Hayward, Dolores del Rio, Norma Talmadge, Anne Baxter, Joan Bennett, Edwige Feuillère, Lilli Palmer, and Kay Francis. In addition to Constance Bennett, Ann Sheridan, Lana Turner, Ann Harding, Constance Talmadge, Irene Dunne, Colleen Moore, Jean Arthur, Anne Bancroft, Judy Garland, Norma Shearer, Annie Girardot, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Anna Neagle, Merle Oberon, Joan Blondell, Pola Negri, Eve Arden, Mary Astor, Sylvia Sidney, Claire Trevor, Corinne Griffith, Margaret Leighton, Alice Faye, Jane Wyman, Grace Kelly, and Ruth Chatterton, Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, Constance Cummings, Nancy Carroll, Margaret Lockwood, Giulietta Masina, Edith Evans, Clara Bow, Silvana Mangano, June Allyson, Agnes Moorehead, Ann Todd, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Susannah York, Gloria Stuart, Jeanne Crain, Margaret Rutherford, Thelma Ritter, Gladys Cooper, Simone Simon, Ann Miller, Fay Wray, Aline MacMahon, Mary Boland, Marjorie Main, Dame May Whitty, Lois Weber, Alice Guy, Theda Bara, Pauline Frederick, Dorothy Gish, Alice Joyce, Mae Marsh, Viola Dana, Clara Kimball Young, Ida Lupino, Dorothy Arzner, Anne Bauchens, Dede Allen, Barbara McLean, Betty Comden, Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Bess Meredyth, Dorothy Farnum, Ruth Cummings, Jane Murfin, Jeanie Macpherson, Lenore J. Coffee, Anita Loos and many countless, countless more.

Happy Oscars!

Stefán Karl Stefánsson

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Bibi Andersson: Sweden’s Wild Strawberry (1935-2019)

Bibi Andersson, the iconic Swedish actress, who died at the age of 83 on 14 April 2019, will forever be remembered for her stage and screen collaborations with Ingmar Bergman.

The great Swedish director discovered her while directing a commercial, in which the 15-year-old had to kiss a swineherd 100 times to get a bar of Bris soap. After a single scene in Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), he went on to cast her in 12 further features.

Seen from the vantage of 2019, the extraordinary actresses who came to prominence in the films of Ingmar Bergman — Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, and the sunny and anguished, incandescent and heartbreaking Bibi Andersson, who died Sunday — enjoyed a relationship with their director that was rooted in a 20th-century male-gaze ethos.

Bergman was famously obsessed with these women: with their faces, their personae, the dramatic possibilities they opened up to him. He carried on off-screen romantic relationships with most of them (including Bibi Andersson), and in his movies he placed them on a grand pedestal of extravagant expression. The pedestal was framed not with a medium or long shot but with a starkly penetrating close-up. You could say that Bergman used the camera to probe their very being.

For much of her early career, Andersson was essentially the Swedish Doris Day, as her “professional innocent” came to symbolise “simple, girlish things”. Bergman exploited this image in The Seventh Seal, in which she escapes Death as part of the surrogate Holy Family, and played against it in Wild Strawberries (both 1957), which saw Andersson double up as Victor Sjöström’s treacherous lost love and a pipe-smoking hitcher.

Bibi shared the best actress prize at Cannes as an unmarried mother weighing up her options in the director’s Brink of Life (1958). But it was Vilgot Sjöman who shattered the demure myth, as Andersson followed a Berlin festival prize for The Mistress (1962) with the incestuous saga My Sister My Love (1966).

Such performances prompted Hollywood offers, with Andersson performing solidly as the mother of an Apache son in Duel at Diablo (1966), the wife of a Russian colonel in John Huston’s The Kremlin Letter (1970), whistleblower Steve McQueen’s supportive spouse in the Ibsen adaptation An Enemy of the People (1978), and an ice age survivor alongside Paul Newman in Robert Altman’s Quintet (1979).

But Andersson was always more at home in her native Scandinavia, following a poised cameo in Gabriel Axel’s Babette’s Feast (1987), with best supporting actress triumphs at the Swedish Guldbagge awards for Shit Happens (2000), Elina (2002) and Arn: The Knight Templar (2007), in which she plays a scheming mother superior.

But it was in movies like “Wild Strawberries” or “Persona,” Bibi Andersson projected the spark of her inner fire and dismay, etching it onto the consciousness of everyone who watched her. She revealed what it was now possible for a woman to feel. Were the emotions new? In a way. But as much as that, showing them was new. And that was the change. She was the actress as alchemist.

RIP Bibi Andersson

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