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The Women Podcasters Network proudly announces the winners of the 2025 Women Podcasters Awards, a community-powered, people’s choice-style celebration that honors the voices, stories, and growing influence of women in podcasting.

Celebrating Women in Podcasting

Now in its second year, the awards continue to spotlight the remarkable diversity and depth of women-led shows across genres—from business to wellness, science to storytelling.

The awards ceremony was hosted by Jennifer Henczel, Founder of the Women Podcasters Awards, Women Podcasters Network and Women in Podcasting Show.

"This event is designed to recognize women who are showing up with courage, bravely sharing their messages, building movements, and using their platforms to inform, inspire, and ignite change._ _From amplifying marginalized voices to exploring niche topics with depth and creativity, these women are raising the bar for what podcasting can achieve," said Henczel.

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Billy Wilder’s first big Oscar winner holds up as fine work in every respect, and serves as evidence of the writer-director’s moviemaking instincts at a time when he could do no wrong. Starring Ray Milland as a self-destructive alcoholic, Wilder and Charles Brackett manage to retain much of the sordid truth and nightmarish horror of the ordeal of would-be writer Don Birnham, who ducks his guilty self-loathing by taking to the bottle. It’s still a harrowing experience, with a sharp emotional kick. This new remastered edition carries a commentary by Joseph McBride. Co-starring Jane Wyman, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen and Phillip Terry; the scary music is by Miklos Rozsa.

The Lost Weekend

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1945 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 101 min. / Street Date November 24, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Douglas Spencer,...

MGM's show is a surprising powerhouse musical bio about the personality clash between an ambitious singer and the powerful enabler who wants her in his bed. Doris Day and James Cagney are at their best in an only slightly compromised telling of the real-life showbiz relationship of 'twenties star Ruth Etting and the domineering mobster Martin Snyder. Love Me or Leave Me Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1955 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 122 min. / Street Date September 13, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully, Harry Bellaver, Richard Gaines, Peter Leeds, Claude Stroud, Audrey Wilder, John Harding. Cinematography Arthur E. Arling Art Direction Urie McCleary, Cedric Gibbons Film Editor Ralph Winters Original Music Nicholas Brodszky, Percy Faith, George E. Stoll Written by Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart Produced by Joe Pasternak Directed by Charles Vidor

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

MGM's early CinemaScope musical bio holds up extremely well,...

Billy Wilder's widow, Audrey Wilder, on Tuesday donated Wilder's six Oscars and his Irving G. Thalberg award back to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which will include them in a forthcoming public display of one Oscar from each of the last 74 years. The brief ceremony preceded a scheduled screening of Wilder's first Oscar-winning picture, The Lost Weekend (1945), at the Academy's headquarters in Beverly Hills.