award season

The cutest pics from the lead-up to Hollywood's biggest night!

In a week heavily marked by awards season announcements including the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute nominations, Kristen Stewart and The Runaways, Stargate: Universe's Ming Na, Emmy Rossum and Rene Russo lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties making headlines in The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.

Awards season? More like Carol season.

Let's hope Emmy recognizes Tatiana come awards season!

Carol is taking award season by storm this year, and we couldn't be happier about it. 

Movie awards season may have ended with last month’s Oscars but GLAAD Awards season is just beginning. Earlier this week the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation announced that Naya Rivera would cohost the awards in New York City. Now, GLAAD has announced, among other juicy tidbits, that Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice creator Shonda Rhimes will receive the Golden Gate Award while Glee star Dianna Agron will host the GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco, according to a release from GLAAD.

Claire Danes’ Carrie Mathison in Showtime’s riveting Emmy award-winning series, Homeland, returns for Season 2 a beaten woman.

Hollywood’s most celebrated & fearless female film stars of the year posed for a beautiful, dynamic cover marking awards season is officially underway.

Awards season is in full swing and Sunday the members of the Screen Actors Guild paid homage to - what else? - themselves at the SAG awards. A few of the usual suspects landed the “actor” statue while the SAGS produced a couple of upsets in an awards’ season that has thus far been pretty lackluster. Regardless of who won or lost, plenty of women looked stunning on the red carpet and / or picking up their awards. Here are several of SheWired’s favorite actresses including Viola Davis, Sofia Vergara, Naya Rivera, Michelle Williams, Emily Blunt, Glenn Close, bisexual Amber Heard, lesbian Jane Lynch and more.

And this year I couldn’t be more excited about awards season’s kick-off with comedy divas Amy Poehler and Tina Fey pairing to host the Golden Globes on January 16.

American Horror Story fanatics never fear! FX has renewed Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s twisted series for a third season, and its current, award-winning star Jessica Lange will be back for the next season. The second season of the creepfest American Horror Story: Asylum is currently about halfway through its season and costars out actress Sarah Paulson as a lesbian journalist imprisoned in a mental institution circa the 1960s. The series also stars Chloe Sevigny as a nymp, Lily Rabe as repressed nun in love with a former Nazi doctor (James Cromwell) and so much more.

Awards' season is officially over, culminating with last week's Academy Awards ceremony during which Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz nabbed top prizes. Here is the definitive list of our Top 10 Women of the 2009 Academy Awards based on your votes.  Anne Hathaway, Freida Pinto, Cate Blanchett, Maris Tomei, Taraji P. Henson, Angelina Jolie are just a few of the superb thespians who also don't mind playing lesbian.

Lisa Cholodenko, her hit film The Kids Are All Right, the Natalie Portman starrer Black Swan and openly gay director John Cameron Mitchell are now certified players during the coming film awards season with numerous nominations for 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Annette Bening earned a nomination for playing one half of a lesbian couple in Cholodenko's film while Natalie Portman's ballerina with lesbian tendencies landed her a nod for best female lead.

It’s not often that LGBT film fest faves and awards’ season converge, but for 2011, the year-end race to Oscar offers three LGBT themed films released in theaters for your consideration this week, and they may also end up Oscar contenders. So grab your bucket o’ popcorn and settle down to Pariah, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Albert Nobbs.