Muse Honours honors femmes

NY Women in Film and tv does what it really does best on Wednesday, honoring women in the market, by praising Claire Danes, Christine Baranski and Martha Stewart in the 31st annual Muse Honours for Vision and Achievement. Danes was selected on her body of labor, particularly her recent operate in the Showtime drama series "Homeland" and Cinemax telepic "Temple Grandin." Baranski may also be feted on her career accomplishments, including "The Great Wife," which gave her a homefield advantage because the CBS drama contacts in Gotham. Marcie Blossom, co-founder and co-prexy of The new sony Pictures Classics, and Nadine Schramm, prexy of Budd Businesses, will also be honorees. NYWIFT, that has a couple of,000 people representing the numerous faces from the NY-based entertainment biz, is striving to attain equality in the market. Although there's been notable progress for femmes recently -- in disparate areas in the raunchy- comedy success of "Bridesmaids" to director Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar win for "The Hurt Locker" -- there's still much try to be achieved, states Terry Lawler, NYWIFT's executive director. "It appears like for a long time every every now and then some lady -- through gargantuan efforts -- continues to be capable of making a movie after which it does not appear to level the playing area," Lawler states. "We are not where you want to be yet." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com