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"Study: Women Film Directors Saw Their Numbers Shrink in 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Randall, Melissa (March 13, 2023). "The Best Female Directors: Celebrating Trailblazing Films & TV Shows". New York Film Academy. Smith, Anna (27 November 2019). "Top 100 films directed by women: What is the 'female ...
1896 La fée aux choux; director: Alice Guy-Blaché; one of the first narrative (fiction) films; 1911 Bufera d'anime; director: Elvira Notari; 1912 Algie the Miner; director: Alice Guy-Blaché(uncredited) first western directed by a woman. 1914 The Merchant of Venice; director: Lois Weber; the first full-length feature film directed by a woman
Women directed just over a third of TV episodes in 2019 and 2020, according to the Directors Guild of America. Now, initiatives from producers and directors like Ava DuVernay are hoping to create ...
A. Beth Aala; Gay Abel-Bey; Jennifer Abod; Fathia Absie; Ally Acker; Devin Adair; Catlin Adams; Joey Lauren Adams; Anita W. Addison; Marilyn Agrelo; Peggy Ahwesh ...
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.
For example, on films with at least one woman director, women made up 71% of the writers, whereas on films with strictly male directors, women made up only 14% of the writers.
Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. [7] [8] The award has been critised in recent years for failing to recognise female directors. [9] Of the 252 individual directors nominated in the history of the award, only 8 have been women; and only 3 of the 75 winners have been women. [10]
Overall, women accounted for 22% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and cinematographers working on the 250 top-grossing films. That was a decline from 24% in 2022.