You'd never know that women in Hollywood are still struggling for parity with men, looking at the sea of females that filled the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton hotel on Thursday night, on hand for the annual Women in Film Crystal and Lucy Awards. But as Jane Fleming, the longstanding group's president pointed out, "only twenty percent of films are produced by women, and only two percent of movies are shot by female cinematographers."

Those slightly grim stats didn't put a damper on the WIF celebration, however, as fabulous females from all disciplines of film, television, and video gathered to honor their best.

Kristen Chenoweth led the raucous proceedings, cracking jokes and showing off her amazing singing voice; but she scared us a little when she chortled, "Isn't Steven Spielberg hot?"

He blushed at that as the audience, including his wife Kate Capshaw, roared; but in a ballroom teeming with women, he actually did count as one of the hot men on hand. Harvey Weinstein and Mike Medavoy, two more of the token power-broking Hollywood males in the audience, did not!

Of course, the night was all about honoring women who have achieved great things on the Hollywood scene. From Shonda Rhimes, the African-American creator/executive producer of "Grey's Anatomy" (she received the Lucy Award, along with "the women of Grey's Anatomy" including Kate Walsh, Chandra Wilson, and Sara Ramirez, who joined her onstage) to cinematographer Uta Briesewitz who took home the Kodak Vision Award, the night teemed with talent.

Blythe Danner inaugurated the Paltrow Mentorship Award, given to A-list producer Kathleen Kennedy, while Nicola Maramotti of the MaxMara clothing empire handed Emily Blunt the MaxMara Award as the breakthrough star of the year. Emily wore a silver beaded MaxMara dress; in fact, half the women in the room seemed to have raided Maramotti's closet, including Chenoweth, Danner, Wilson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Maggie Grace, Michelle Trachtenberg, Regina King, and Cheryl Hines.

Renee Zellweger looked fantastic in her slim strapless cream dress, and got all choked up as Weinstein sang her praises and presented her with the evening's highest honor, the Crystal Award.

Diane Keaton wore her trademark slacks and got raunchy when she awarded her "Something's Gotta Give" writer-director Nancy Meyers the group's Dorothy Arzner Award, but it was Meyers herself who got the biggest laugh of a laugh-filled night with her classic remark about the state of women in Hollywood today:

"What's up with those women in Hollywood who try giving women a bad name? The ones who think it's okay to drink and drive, and they don't wear underwear? I understand burning your bra, but it is NOT okay not to wear underpants!"

Seems perhaps we DO still have a long way to go in Tinseltown, doesn't it?