Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet among top 50 UK female power players

PanARMENIAN.Net - A list of the 50 British female power players boasts 11 names from front of camera including Helena Bonham Carter, Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Kate Winslet, Maggie Smith and Tilda Swinton, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Also making the list in the talent category is Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford, the latest James Bond girl Naomie Harris, comedian and tv writer Miranda Hart, TV presenter, writer and comedian Sue Perkins and TV journalist and presenter Kirsty Wark.

Emma Watson, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, and recently cast to star in Sofia Coppola's latest pictureThe Bling Ring, is arguably one of the few glaring omissions from a list of the top 50 most powerful British women working in film and television.

And there is also no room for actress Kate Beckinsale, Emily Watson, Rachel Weisz, Gemma Arterton, Anna Friel, Rosamund Pike or Emily Blunt on the list.

Britain's Women in Film and TV industry organization published the list as part of International Women's Day with the aim of celebrating women who have impacted the film and tv industries in the U.K.

To get on the list, a spokesperson for WFTV said the list, draw up with the help of two U.K. trade publications Broadcast and Screen International, included such elements as power to get a project greenlit, impact on the viewing habits of the public in the U.K. and abroad, influence on broadcast or film culture, and even financial success.

The list of 50 names places 21 executives, 14 producers/directors and four screenwriters alongside the 11 names from in front of the camera.

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