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    "articleBody": "Taylor Swift will be handed the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the annual Women in Entertainment gala, and the person giving it to her is Barbie director Greta Gerwig. The organizers announced the honor on November 11, naming Lifetime as the event’s founding sponsor and Lilly as its title sponsor. The award is meant for trailblazers and philanthropists in entertainment and media, according to the announcement. It carries the name of one of Hollywood’s most powerful executives, which makes the choice of a pop songwriter worth a closer look. Who Sherry Lansing is Lansing, now 82, started out as a bit-part actor in 1970, appearing in the John Wayne western Rio Lobo, before deciding she would rather learn the business from the inside. Her rise was steep: 1980: At 35 she became president of production at 20th Century Fox, the first woman to run production at a major studio. 1987: As a producer she earned a best picture Oscar nomination for Fatal Attraction. 1992 to 2004: She chaired Paramount’s film group, a stretch that included Forrest Gump, Braveheart and Titanic. 2007: The film academy gave her the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her cancer research work. She also co-founded the Stand Up To Cancer initiative and, since 2023, has chaired the board of Universal Music Group, the company behind much of the modern record business. That music link gives an award in her name a natural bridge to Swift, who in recent years has turned business decisions about her own catalog into part of her public story. Another honor in a crowded year The new award caps a run of recognition for Swift in 2026. In June, at 36, she entered the Songwriters Hall of Fame as its youngest female member, with Steven Spielberg introducing her at the New York ceremony. Only Stevie Wonder entered younger. “It was instinctual. No one taught me how to do it,” she said of her songwriting that night, before thanking her family for moving her from Pennsylvania to Nashville as a tween. She later picked up a Nashville honor too, as we covered when she joined the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift has also been popping up in film and TV conversations this month; actor Carrie Coon recently praised Swift’s impression of her Gilded Age character Bertha Russell. The Women in Entertainment night joins a busy awards season that already saw Charlize Theron take the Icon Award at the Academy Museum gala in October, where Swift was among the guests photographed. Why Gerwig fits the night Gerwig writes the films she directs, and Swift writes the songs she sings. Pairing them puts two women known for authorship, not just performance, on the same stage. The organizers have not said in the announcement what Swift will speak about, and no other details of her appearance were released. At the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala in June, she told young writers: “You really have to prioritize what you love, down to your very core. Because you’ll need that.” Further reading Wikipedia: Sherry Lansing Image: Vixy13, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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