Billie Awards
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The Billie Awards was an annual awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California
first held by the Women's Sports Foundation in 2006.
Winners
and Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer in the Entertainment category.
Winners
and Million Dollar Baby
in the Entertainment category.
Winners
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
first held by the Women's Sports Foundation in 2006.
2008 Billie Awards
Nominations for the third annual Billie Awards included Women in American Horse Racing and Generation IX in the Entertainment category.Winners
- Entertainment: Chak De! India
- Journalism: Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports
- Breakthrough and Innovation: Boom Boom Tap
- Outstanding Journalist: Lesley VisserLesley VisserLesley Candace Visser is an American sportscaster, radio personality, and sportswriter. Visser is the first female NFL analyst on TV, and the only sportscaster in history, male or female, who has worked on Final Four, NBA Finals, World Series, Triple Crown, Monday Night Football, the Olympics, the...
2007 Billie Awards
Nominations for the second annual Billie Awards included Watermarks (film)Watermarks (film)
Watermarks is a 2004 documentary directed by Yaron Zilberman that features women from the Viennese Hakoah swim team during the rise of fascism in 1930s Austria. The film describes the women's success as athletes leading up to the Anschluss of 1938 when the swimmers fled Austria to disparate...
and Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer in the Entertainment category.
Winners
- Entertainment: The Heart of the GameThe Heart of the GameThe Heart of the Game is a sports documentary about the Roosevelt Roughriders girls basketball team. The movie is centered around their star player Darnellia Russell and the Roughriders new coach Bill Resler.-Plot:...
- Journalism: Lady Caliphs by ESPNESPNEntertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
- Breakthrough and Innovation: MADE, MTVMTVMTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
Networks - Industry Leader: Ross Greenberg
2006 Billie Awards
Nominations for the first annual Billie Awards included Bend It Like BeckhamBend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...
and Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman...
in the Entertainment category.
Winners
- Entertainment: Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer TeamDare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer TeamDare to Dream is a 2005 sports documentary about the United States women's national soccer team. It describes the pivotal roles of Brandi Chastain, Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Kristine Lilly, and Joy Fawcett in the development of the team. These athletes also give interviews for the film...
- Journalism: Christine BrennanChristine BrennanChristine Brennan is an American sports columnist, TV and radio commentator, best-selling author and nationally-known speaker....
- USA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003... - Breakthrough and Innovation: Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?
- Industry Leader:Bud Greenspan – Cappy Productions