This list of media awards honoring women is an index to articles about notable awards honoring women. The list includes general, literary and music awards for women. It excludes awards for actresses, including film awards for lead actress and television awards for Best Actress, which are covered by separate lists.
Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
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United States | Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Woman Director | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Woman director [1] |
United States | Women's Image Network Awards | Women's Image Network | Women's Image Network Awards = Promoting outstanding media (created by both men and women), The Women's Image Awards advance the value of women and girls. Now in year 23, these awards are a production of Women's Image Network, and are also called The WIN Awards. | |
United Kingdom | Funny Women Awards [2] [3] | Funny Women | Women comedians |
United States | Gracie Awards | Alliance for Women in Media | Programming created for women, by women, and about women, as well as individuals who have made exemplary contributions in electronic media and affiliates [4] |
Pakistan | Hum Award for Best Model Female | Hum Network | Female model who has achieved outstanding recognition within the fashion industry [5] |
Chile | Lenka Franulic Award | National Association of Women Journalists of Chile | Career achievement in women's journalism [6] |
United States | The Matrix Awards | New York Women in Communications | Exceptional women in the fields of arts, advertising, entertainment, film, television, theater, books, broadcasting, magazines, newspapers, public relations and new media. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] |
United States | Women in Film & Video-DC Women of Vision Awards | Women in Film and Television International, Women in Film & Video | Women’s creative and technical achievements in media [15] |
United States | Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards | Women in Film and Television International | Women in communications and media [16] |
United States | Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award | Women's Caucus for Art | Women's achievements in the arts [17] [18] |
United States | Leading Ladies of Entertainment | The Latin Recording Academy | Women's achievements in the arts and science in the Latin entertainment field [19] |
Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
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Canada, United States | Carol Shields Prize for Fiction | Literature published in English (including translation) by North American women or non-binary writers. [20] | |
United Kingdom | Rose Mary Crawshay Prize | British Academy | Female scholars [21] [22] |
Australia | Barbara Jefferis Award | Australian Society of Authors | Best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society". [23] |
Thailand | Chommanard Book Prize | Bangkok Bank, Praphansarn Publishing House | Female literary talent [24] |
Australia | Davitt Award | Sisters in Crime | Australian crime fiction, by women, for both adults and young adults [25] |
United States | Lulu Awards | Friends of Lulu | Women-friendly and reader- friendly work in comics [26] |
United States | Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize | Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, University of Rochester | Fiction by an American woman [27] |
Canada | Marian Engel Award | Writers' Trust of Canada | Female Canadian novelist in mid-career for her entire body of work [28] |
Japan | Murasaki Shikibu Prize | City of Uji, Japan | Awarded annually to an outstanding piece of literature in Japanese by a female author |
Australia | Nita Kibble Literary Award | Kibble Literary Awards | Works of women writers of fiction or non-fiction classified as 'life writing'. [29] [30] |
Canada | Pat Lowther Award | League of Canadian Poets | Best book of poetry by a Canadian woman [31] |
Italy | Rapallo Carige Prize | Municipality of Rapallo, Banca Carige | New works by women writers in Italian [32] |
Canada | Room writing contests | Room (magazine) | Writers who identify as women or genderqueer [33] [34] [35] |
Germany | Roswitha Prize | City of Bad Gandersheim | Prize for literature that is given solely to women |
United Kingdom | SI Leeds Literary Prize | Soroptimist International of Leeds | Unpublished fiction written by Black and Asian women resident in the UK |
Mexico | Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize | Guadalajara International Book Fair | Book written in Spanish by a female author |
Australia | Stella Prize | Stella Prize | Writing by Australian women in all genres |
United States, United Kingdom | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize | Women who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre [36] |
United Kingdom | Warwick Prize for Women in Translation | University of Warwick | Translated work by a female author published in English |
United Kingdom | Women's Prize for Fiction | Women's Prize for Fiction | Best original full-length novel written in English [37] |
United Kingdom | Women's Prize for Non-Fiction | Women's Prize for Non-Fiction | Launching in 2023 for 2024 prize [38] [39] |