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1995 Antonia's Line; director: Marleen Gorris; Academy Award for best foreign film, the first time awarded to a female film director. 1995 Strange Days; director: Kathryn Bigelow; 1996 Fire; director: Deepa Mehta; 1996 Unstrung Heroes; director: Diane Keaton; 1996 White Men Are Cracking Up; director: Ngozi Onwurah
Academy Award for Best Director: Year Name Film Status Notes 1976: Lina Wertmüller: Seven Beauties: Nominated First woman to be nominated for Best Director. 1993: Jane Campion: The Piano: Nominated 2003: Sofia Coppola: Lost in Translation: Nominated 2009: Kathryn Bigelow: The Hurt Locker: Won First woman to win for Best Director. 2017: Greta ...
Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) Women Make Movies; The Alice Initiative; Film Fatales; FemaleDirectors.com (films on Netflix and Amazon) The Director List: Women Directors at Work at Cinefemme; Filmmakers at South Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET) (archive) Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University ...
Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color to win the award for best director with her film "Nomadland." The film stars Francis McDormand a woman who pursues a nomadic lifestyle in the United States.
The biggest year for best picture noms for movies produced by women was 2019, delivering eight films with female producers attached, including Kwak Sin-ae, who would become the first woman of ...
4. Kathryn Bigelow: The Hurt Locker (2009) And finally, we have a winner! Kathryn Bigelow, the fourth woman ever nominated for Best Director, was also the first woman to win.
Chloe Zhao is a Chinese born film director who is best known for her work in Hollywood. Zhao became the first Asian woman, the first woman of color and the second woman ever to win Best Director for her 2020 film Nomadland. In 2021 she directed the ensemble cast superhero film Eternals. She moved to Los Angeles from Beijing as a teenager.
From tentpole director Cathy Yan to Sundance breakout Radha Blank and more, put these female filmmakers on your radar right now. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support ...