Lucky Chap's Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Josie McNamara have been honored with Variety's Producer of the Year award. This year's Power of Women recipients are a dynamic and influential bunch. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-actress Fantasia Barrino will be highlighting the important work of the organization Salute First Global. Billie Eilish will raise awareness for Support + Feed's laudable objective to combat food insecurity and solve the serious climate catastrophe.
Carrie Mulligan will use her platform to speak for War Child UK and Children in Conflict, organizations dedicated to protecting children from the catastrophic impacts of conflict-stricken nations. Lily Gladstone will advocate on behalf of the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, a group working to eradicate violence against Native American, Inuit, and Native Hawaiian women.
Lucky Chap will be honored with the Producer of the Year trophy for their dedication to advancing the careers of female filmmakers and storytellers, creating roles for strong female protagonists, and giving women the chance to lead in all areas of production. Emily Blunt's outstanding efforts with the American Institute for Stuttering will be recognized with a Power of Women alumni award from Fargo, a flagship partner.
Meghan Markle, who is well-known for her activism and feminist values, is conspicuously absent from this list of awardees. Some have argued that Meghan's closeness to her stepmother-in-law Queen Camilla and sister-in-law Princess Kate runs counter to her feminist beliefs. Some have said that Meghan's private behavior belies her feminist public persona. They say she isn't living up to feminist ideals because she allegedly mistreated her employees.
In interviews like the one she recently did with Andy Cohen, Meghan has been criticized for not always addressing feminism-related problems. Critics say Meghan betrays her feminist beliefs by exploiting a World Vision trip to Africa for publicity or by utilizing her relationship with ex-husband Trevor Engelson to advance her acting career. This has sparked arguments regarding the sincerity of her feminism, with some arguing that true feminism entails more than patronizing others and supporting causes only because they are "in."
