Diane Warren – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

SPOTLIGHT December 2024: DIANE WARREN, Revered and Prolific Songsmith

November 30, 2024January 8, 2025 Leslie Combemale bess kargman, Celine Dion, cher, Diane Warren, diane warren relentless, gaga, H.E.R, oscar, paul mccartney, Ringo starr, songwriter, Songwriters Hall of Fame, spotlight

Diane Warren is an artist who even early in her career was called “the most important songwriter in the world”. So far, Warren has been nominated for an Oscar fifteen times in five different decades, and in 2022 garnered an Academy Honorary Award. She is part of the fabric of popular music in a way that transcends genre and gender, with a list of accomplishments that include being the first songwriter, male or female, in the history of Billboard magazine to have seven hits by seven different artists on the charts at the same time. Many of her melodies have a longevity not shared with the films in which they appear. She is quirky, straightforward, mouthy, curse-y and is always herself, whether she’s on the red carpet, attending the Governor’s Ball, or visiting the rescued farm animals living at her self-financed animal sanctuary in Malibu.

News

WEEK IN WOMEN: Diane Warren honored by Songwriters Hall of Fame – Brandy McDonnell reports

June 12, 2024June 13, 2024 Brandy McDonnell Diane Warren, Johnny Mercer Award, Songwriters Hall of Fame, the week in women, twiw

A 15-time Oscar nominee for best original song, Diane Warren has been named the 2024 recipient of the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She will receive the esteemed honor at the the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala, slated for June 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The Johnny Mercer Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, is exclusively reserved for a songwriter or songwriting team who has already been inducted in a prior year and whose body of work is of such high quality and impact that it upholds the gold standard set by the legendary Mercer.

Reviews

TELL IT LIKE A WOMAN – Review by Jennifer Green

February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 Jennifer Green Anne Watanabe, Cara Delevingne, catherine hardwicke, compilation, Diane Warren, Eva Longoria, Jacqueline Fernandez, jennifer hudson, Lucia Puenzo, marcia gay harden, margherita Buy, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Mipo Oh, taraji p. henson, Tell It Like a Woman, We Do It Together

Marketed around its concept of stories by and about women, this compilation of shorts was co-produced by the non-profit organization We Do It Together, which promotes gender parity in film and media. The stories mostly revolve around women in crisis, which provides narrative drama but doesn’t feel universal or representative of women’s lives in general. While there’s plenty of diversity across the shorts in terms of race, ethnicity and nationality, the focus begs the question of why the film didn’t opt for more diversity in stories and tone. Being a woman doesn’t have to mean overcoming constant crises, does it?