The Academy Women’s Luncheon is a lovely, warm annual celebration of women in the industry that gathers many of Hollywood’s most influential people on the picturesque rooftop of the Academy Museum.

“Wait, this is all women?! So sick!” Marty Supreme star Odessa A’Zion exclaimed when she entered the space on Nov. 4. It is sick – a gathering of women excited to raise each other up over a chic lunch, capped with a motivational speech from a notable actor. Usually, the keynote speaker is polite and uplifting. But at this year’s event, Kirsten Stewart had other plans. “We can be stoked today if we point out the elephant in the room: there are too few of us,” she said.

Stewart opened her speech by talking about her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water , before turning to her

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