It's Women's History Month and we salute the female POV.

The Batman rules but so is Catwoman; the struggle of women DPs; the Ukraine invasion from the eyes of a female documentarian - and much more. Week of March 7th-13th, 2022 WORLD BOX OFFICE: THE BATMAN RULES Robert Pattinson’s new career chapter as the Caped Crusader is off to a roaring start as The Batman opened domestically with $128.5 million, scoring as the pandemic period’s second-biggest bow. Combined with its $120 million offshore the film made a whopping $248.5 million debut worldwide. [Read more]( PHOTO GALLERY: ZOE KRAVITZ'S STYLE IS PURE PURR-FECTION Zoë Kravitz. Purrr-fectly cast as Catwoman to Robert Pattinson's Batman, the sexual tension is palpable on screen. The costume has always evoked fetishism, the softness of a cat, with the claws that can maim. [READ & SEE MORE ON OUR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PAGE]( [Read more]( NO BAT WITHOUT A CAT- THE STARS THAT WERE CATWOMEN Catwoman’s story began alongside the Caped Crusaders in the very first comic Batman #1 (DC Comics, 1940). Since then, there’s been no shortage of remarkable performances throughout the years. We look back at the actresses who played the fierce feline famous for her whip and wit. [READ & SEE MORE ON OUR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PAGE]( [Read more]( AND THERE'S MORE: IN MEMORIAM: AIDA TAKLA-O'REILLY, HFPA PRESIDENT, 1931-2022[]( The Hollywood Foreign Press Association mourns the passing of Dr. Aida Takla-O’Reilly, a longtime member of the group who twice served as its president. With a highly engaged tenure spanning 8 different decades, Aida wasn’t merely a valuable fount of institutional memory and industry perspective, but someone who sought to ignore and push through the constraints of societal barriers. [Read More]( UKRAINE NOW, AS TOLD BY DOCUMENTARIAN IRYNA TSILYK As the world holds its breath watching Russia continue its assault on Ukraine she talks to the Golden Globes Around the World podcast series about her gut-wrenching experience of discovering life imitating art. [Read more]( WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA_ STILL A STRUGGLE If the film industry has been and continues to be, a male-dominated world, the cinematography field seems closed even tighter to women. [Read more]( [READ & SEE MORE ON OUR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PAGE]( THE STYLE OF THE INDIE SPIRIT AWARDS Different takes center stage. Let’s look at how the stars incorporate an individual choice and Spirit to stand out from the crowd. [Read more]( OUT OF THE ARCHIVES, 1993: [S]( SPIELBERG]( The seeds of [Schindler's List]( "I had come to the end of my patience with the ethnic cleansing, that terrible word being used in Bosnia, but I was at the end of my rope with the Holocaust deniers who in 1990 began to talk more." [Read More]( Copyright © *2021* *HFPA, All rights reserved. Cover photo by © Greg Williams Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( [Instagram](