3 June, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 4 categories

A MOVEMENT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY…

She Said is a 2022 biographical drama film directed by Maria Schrader and written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, based on their 2019 book, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. The film stars Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as Twohey and Kantor, respectively, and follows their New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein‘s history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women. Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Jennifer Ehle, and Samantha Morton co-star, with Ashley Judd appearing as herself.

Directed by Maria Schrader, Screenplay by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Based on "She Said" by Jodi Kantor, and Megan Twohey, Produced by Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner, Starring: Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Jennifer Ehle, Samantha Morton, Ashley Judd, with Cinematography by Natasha Braier, Edited by Hansjörg Weißbrich, with Music by Nicholas Britell, Production companies: Annapurna Pictures, and Plan B Entertainment, and Distributed by Universal Pictures. (2022)

29 November 2022, Berlin: Director Maria Schrader comes to the premiere of her film "She Said". Photo Credit: Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images

Rebecca Lenkiewicz at the AFI Fest screening of "She Said" held at TCL Chinese Theatre on November 4, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Photo Credit: Mark Von Holden/Variety via Getty Images

"She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement" is a 2019 nonfiction book written by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, two New York Times investigative reporters who exposed Harvey Weinstein's history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women, a catalyst for the burgeoning MeToo movement. The book was published on September 10, 2019 by Penguin Press. Photo Credit: Amazon

Jodi Kantor (born April 21, 1975) is an American journalist. She is a New York Times correspondent whose work has covered the workplace, technology, and gender. She has been the paper's Arts & Leisure editor and covered two presidential campaigns, chronicling the transformation of Barack and Michelle Obama into the President and First Lady of the United States. Kantor was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for her reporting on sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein. Kantor is the author of the book The Obamas and She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement about the Harvey Weinstein investigation. She is a contributor to CBS This Morning and has also appeared on Charlie Rose, The Daily Show and The Today Show. Kantor was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018. Megan Twohey (/ˈtuːi/) is an American journalist with The New York Times. She has written investigative reports for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Twohey's investigative reports have exposed exploitative doctors, revealed untested rape kits, and uncovered a secret underground network of abandoned unwanted adopted children. Her investigative reports have led to criminal convictions and helped prompt new laws aimed at protecting vulnerable people and children. On October 5, 2017, Twohey and fellow New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor published a report about Harvey Weinstein detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations, and more than 80 women publicly accused Weinstein of sexually abusing or assaulting them. This led to Weinstein's firing and helped to ignite the viral #MeToo movement started by the American activist Tarana Burke. That work was honored in 2018, when The New York Times was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Kantor and Twohey won the George Polk award and were named to Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year. Twohey and Kantor subsequently authored a book which chronicled their report about Weinstein, titled She Said. The book was published in 2019, and adapted into a film of the same name in 2022. In addition to winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Twohey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2014. Photo Credit: Google Images

Carey Mulligan, and Zoe Kazan in a scene from the film, "She Said". Photo Credit: Universal Pictures (2022)

In October 2017, The New York Times and The New Yorker reported that more than a dozen women accused Weinstein of sexually harassing, assaulting, or raping them. Many other women in the film industry subsequently reported similar experiences with Weinstein, who denied "any nonconsensual sex". As a result of these allegations, Weinstein was dismissed from his production company, suspended from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He also resigned from the Directors Guild of America and was denounced by leading figures in politics whom he had supported. The Los Angeles Police Department opened a criminal investigation for alleged rape, and New York and London police began investigating other sexual assault allegations. On October 10, 2017, Weinstein's wife, Georgina Chapman, announced that she was leaving him; their divorce was finalized in July 2021. The sexual abuse allegations precipitated a wave of "national reckoning" against sexual harassment and assault in the United States known as the Weinstein effect. Compounded by other sexual harassment cases earlier in the year, the Weinstein reports and subsequent #MeToo hashtag campaign, which encouraged individuals to share their suppressed stories of sexual misconduct, created a cavalcade of allegations across multiple industries that brought about the swift ouster of many men in positions of power both in the United States and, as it spread, around the world. Photo Credit: Google Images

Patricia Clarkson in a scene from the film, "She Said". Photo Credit: Universal Pictures (2022)

Andre Braugher in a scene from the film, "She Said". Photo Credit: Universal Pictures (2022)

Jennifer Ehle in a scene from the film, "She Said". Photo Credit: Universal Pictures (2022)

Samantha Morton in a scene from the film, "She Said". Photo Credit: Universal Pictures (2022)

Ashely Judd in a scene from the film, "She Said". Photo Credit: Universal Pictures (2022)

The book was optioned in 2018, and the film was announced in 2021 as a co-production between Annapurna Pictures and Plan B Entertainment. Filming took place in New York with cinematographer Natasha Braier. During post-production, editing was completed by Hansjörg Weißbrich and the score was composed by Nicholas Britell.

The New York City Skyline featuring the Statue of Liberty.

Natasha Braier attends the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 08, 2020 in Santa Monica, California. Photo Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Hansjörg Weißbrich (born 6 February 1967) is a German film editor. He contributed to more than sixty films since 1995 including Colonia, Trade and Night Train to Lisbon. Phot Credit: Google Images

She Said (Original Motion Picture Score) is the score album to the 2022 film of the same name, based on the 2019 book by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, that stars Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as Twohey and Kantor, respectively, following their New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein's history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women. The film features original score composed by Nicholas Britell and cello performances by his wife Caitlin Sullivan. The album was released by Back Lot Music on November 18, 2022. Development "There are many parts of the film where I would tailor things to match the investigation, and to follow those really functional needs. But I think what really drew me to this was to explore the inner emotional world. And the wonderful outgrowth of that was getting to collaborate with Caitlin as the co-producer on the score — which is something we’ve never had the opportunity to do before." Nicholas Britell The score, composed by Nicholas Britell, had cello being the primary instrument for the film played by Britell's wife and classical cellist Caitlin Sullivan. He felt that "there was something about the sonic possibilities of what a cello can do that, intuitively, felt right". In addition to the cello, Britell also played piano and accompanied with a 15-piece string orchestra in New York City, where Sullivan performs both chamber and orchestral ensembles. Photo Credit: Wikipedia Commons

Nicholas Britell attends the red carpet event for "She Said" during the 60th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on October 13, 2022 in New York City. Photo Credit: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for FLC

She Said had its world premiere at the 60th New York Film Festival on October 13, 2022, and was released in the United States on November 18, 2022, by Universal Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the screenplay and the performances of Kazan and Mulligan. It was also named one of the best films of 2022 by the American Film Institute. However, it was a box office flop, grossing $13 million against a production budget of $32 million. The film was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mulligan and Best Adapted Screenplay for Lenkiewicz at the 76th British Academy Film Awards. It also earned Mulligan a Golden Globe Award nomination and Lenkiewicz a Critics’ Choice Award nomination.

Carey Mulligan attends the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2023 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 19, 2023 in London, England. Photo Credit: Samir Hussein/WireImage

Writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz attends the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2023 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 19, 2023 in London, England. Photo Credit: Gareth Cattermole/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA

The 76th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 19 February 2023, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2022, at the Royal Festival Hall within London's Southbank Centre. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2022. The nominations were announced on 19 January 2023 via a global livestream, hosted by actors Hayley Atwell and Toheeb Jimoh, from the arts charity's newly redeveloped HQ at 195 Piccadilly, London. The EE Rising Star Award nominees, which is the only category voted for by the British public, were announced on 17 January 2023. The German-language epic anti-war drama All Quiet on the Western Front received the most nominations with fourteen, tying the record set by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) as the most nominated non-English language film in the awards' history; winning seven of these, including Best Film, Best Director (Edward Berger) and Best Film Not in the English Language, the World War I epic set a new record for the most BAFTA wins for a non-English language film. The ceremony was co-hosted by Swazi-English BAFTA- and Academy Award-nominated actor Richard E. Grant and British television personality Alison Hammond, who also helmed the backstage interviews. Presenters Vick Hope and BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb hosted the red carpet pre-show. The broadcast aired on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and was simulcast globally in eight countries. Photo Credit: Wikipedia Commons

The nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay are: - Samuel D. Hunter for 'The Whale' - Kazuo Ishiguro for 'Living' - Rian Johnson for 'Glass onion: A Knives Out Mystery' - Rebecca Lenkiewicz for 'She Said' - Sarah Polley for 'Women Talking' Photo Credit: Critics Choice Awards Twitter

Carey Mulligan in a scene from the film, "She Said". Photo Credit: Universal Pictures (2022)

The nominees for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture are: Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness Carey Mulligan, She Said Photo Credit: Golden Globe Awards Twitter

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards Statues.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz for his adapted screenplay for 'She Said' Photo Credit: Wikipedia Commons

A Critics Choice Award for the winner in each category. Credit: Christopher Polk/Getty Images

She Said is the Featured Blog of the Month for June for its historical movement for accountability! You can expect to read a critique of the film discussing the Twohey and Kantor New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein‘s history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women. You can also read a recommendation of the 2019 book by reporters Kantor and Twohey. There is also a detailed review of the NYT article. You can also watch an interview with CBS Mornings’ Gayle King as she interviews Twohey and Zoe Kazan, who plays her in the 2022 film. There is also a Top Ten List to commemorate the film being a Featured Blog of the Month, and for She Said the topic of the list is My Top Ten Newsroom Movies! And finally as a Featured Blog of the Month film, you can watch the Official Trailer for the 2022 film and then plan on watching She Said tonight!