Recently, I spent an evening with the human dynamo that is Lee Daniels. Lee directed the movie Precious, which came to our screens last year. And we are SO LUCKY that it did. A miracle of a movie. The performances are evisceratingly good, the writing pitch perfect, the cinematography like heaven… I wept so hard. I felt like the note from Lee at the end of the picture “for precious girls everywhere” was written directly to me. And I’m sure thousands of other women feel the same. Lee was in London to promote Precious, and I hosted a screening of the movie, inviting as many award voters as my address book held! It should win a truckload of awards. Although its success is in no way dependent on that … its success is in how it will inform, influence, heal and help generations of people. Sometimes I bemoan the fact that the powerful medium of film doesn’t do enough to educate and inform; to change the world. But Precious does just that. (Photo by Getty Images)