Women of Vision Awards

Women in Film & Video DC ⟩ Women of Vision Awards

The WIFV Women of Vision Awards celebrate women’s creative and technical achievements in media. WIFV Executive Members nominate women for these awards.

We look forward to celebrating the 2025 Women of Vision Awards on April 3 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.  We will be announcing the honorees in January.  We look forward to seeing you there.

WIFV presented the 2024 Women of Vision Awards to Sylvia Bugg, Chief Programming Executive and General Manager of General Audience Programming at PBS, E. Samantha Cheng, documentarian, journalist, and founder of Heritage Series, LLC, and Marielle Heller, award-winning director, writer and actor, on Thursday, May 23, 2024 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.  The program, moderated by Ann Hornaday, Film Critic, The Washington Post, provided significant time for the honorees to share their expertise, and adventures, including clips and audience Q&A! Thanks to the 2024 sponsors – Blackmagic Design, Interface Media Group, Maryland Film Office,  OCTFME, the Virginia Film Office, and WETA.

We are delighted and honored to recognize these trail blazers!

Women of Vision Award Recipients

2024
Sylvia Bugg
E. Samantha Cheng
Marielle Heller
Moderator: Ann Hornaday

2023
Abby Greensfelder
Lynda Obst
Vonnya Pettigrew
Moderator: Neda Ulaby

2020
Melissa Houghton

2017
Julie Dash
Moderator: Leslie Foster

2016
Christine Vachon
Moderator: Giovanna Chesler

2015
Joan Darling
Dawn Porter
Moderator: Elizabeth Blair

2013
Penny Marshall
“Penny Marshall Charms Avalon audience” in dc outlook – Read the article here.  See some of the photos here.

2012
Shirin Ghareeb
Agnieszka Holland
Margaret Parsons
Christine Weber
Emcee:  Gwen Tolbart

2011
Maryanne Culpepper
Cecilia Domeyko
Mickey Green
Laura Possessky
Emcee: Cynne Simpson

2010
Patricia Aufderheide
Grace Guggenheim
Connie Day-McClinton
Emcee: Maureen Bunyan

2009
Constance Chatfield-Taylor
Sharon Sloane
Sheila Smith

2008
Patty Duke
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Susan Lacy
Linda Maslow
Emcee: Maureen Bunyan

2007
Susie Coelho
Patricia Finneran
Barbara Kopple
Deborah Redmond
Andrea Sims
Emcee: Andrea Pennington, MD

2006
Diana Ingraham
Beth Mendelson
Laureen Ong
Nina Gilden Seavey
Daphne Maxwell Reid
Emcee: Eun Yang

2005
Stephanie Antosca
Jennifer Cortner
Carrie Fisher
Carol Flaisher
Brooke Bailey Johnson
Emcee: Lark McCarthy

2004
Lynda Carter
Phylis Geller
Jennifer Lawson
Penny Lee
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter
Emcee: Doris McMillon

2003
Ruby Dee
Amy DeLouise
Ricki Green
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Carole Simpson
Emcee: Pat Lawson Muse

2002
Debra L. Lee
Rosemary Reed
Catherine Wyler
Emcee: Maureen Bunyan

2001
Jean Picker-Firstenberg
Aviva Kempner
Sharon Stone
Aida Takla-O’Reilly
Emcee: Carole Simpson

2000
Tipper Gore
Gwen Ifill
Wendie Malick
Judith McHale
Roseanne Barr
Bonnie Nelson Schwartz
Emcee: Renee Poussaint

1999
Sheila Brooks
Tyne Daly
J.C. Hayward
Tippi Hedren
Linda Ross
Emcee: Maureen Bunyan

1998
Sandy Cannon-Brown
Linda Ellerbee
Robin Smith
Susan Smith
Mary Steenburgen
Emcee: Rosemary Reed

1997
Ruth Pollak
Renee Poussaint
Cicely Tyson
Marilyn Weiner
Nancy Woodhull
Emcee: Judy Carter

1996
Maureen Bunyan
Michal Carr
Lee Grant
Sherry Jones
Emcee: Carole Simpson

1995
Kathy Bates
Elizabeth Campbell
Judith Dwan Hallet
Ruth Roland
Lesley Stahl
Emcee: Andrea Roane

1994
Ginny Durrin
Elise Reeder
Nina Rosenblum
Emcee: Susan King