Women's Image Network Awards

Women's Image Network
Dimensional Female Media Images Empower Everyone
Awarded for	Awards men and women who create dimensional female media images to advance gender parity.
Country	United States
Presented by	Women's Image Network Awards
First awarded	July 22, 1993
Official website	thewinawards.com

The Women's Image Network (WIN), founded in 1993 in the United States to promote gender parity by artist, actress, filmmaker Phyllis Stuart has produced The Women's Image Awards (AKA The WIN Awards), to celebrate men and women who create media which increases the value of women and girls. Stuart said the awards were designed to honor media artists and serve as media advocacy to expand the role of women in the world.

To that end, each year film studios and television networks submit (and the Women's Image Awards jury adjudicates) film and television, applauding the writers, directors, producers and actors whose work promotes the value of women.

While the Women's Image Awards are presented on a completion basis to film and television (and sometimes advertising and video game) professionals, WIN also honors deserving individuals who share its mission.

WIN presents its awards in Hollywood and relies on entertainment industry collaborations to draw audiences to excellent media.

The awards are a production of WIN, a 501c3 non-profit charity which has also supported other charities including The Mary Magdalene Foundation, Women’s Care Cottage, The Mission, Gilda’s Club, The American Cancer Society. WIN supports charities whose efforts range from fighting homeless, rehabilitating prostitutes, curing HIV/AIDS and cancer, eliminating poverty, biodiversity conservation and wild animal rescue. In some years, proceeds from the WIN Awards Gala have been used to fund other WIN events, such as in 2006 when the charity created the Day in the Life program designed to mentor at-risk girls.

Since its inception, WIN has benefited from guidance from seasoned industry professionals Current (a few former and deceased) WIN Advisory Board members include: Tamara Asseyev, Todd Black, Helen Gurley Brown, David Brown, Blake Edwards, Eizabeth Forsythe-Hailey, Elaine Hastings Edell, Mariette Hartley, Arthur Hiller, Henry Jaglom, Norman Jewison, Alan Landsburg, Sherry Lansing. Lauren Lloyd, Bryan Lourd, Dan Lupovitz, Amanda Mackey Johnson, Laurence Mark, Jayne Meadows, Baroness Kimberly Moore, Peter Newman, Bonnie Palef, Sarah Pillsbury, Polly Platt, Peggy Rajski, Alyse Rosenberg, Fred Schepisi, Linda Shayne, Lauren Shuler Donner, George Stevens, Jr., Allyn Stewart, Ellen Travolta and Lili Fini Zanuck.