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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
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 ...
First woman of color to direct a film to be nominated for Best International Feature Film. 1995: Marleen Gorris: Antonia's Line: Won First woman to direct a film to win for Best International Feature Film. 1996: Nana Jorjadze: A Chef in Love: Nominated Berit Nesheim: The Other Side of Sunday: Nominated 1997: Caroline Link: Beyond Silence ...
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.
The overall percentage of women employed as directors of the top-grossing Hollywood films has hardly budged over the last 20+ years despite assumed progress in the industry, a new report shows.
One-third of features films approved for support by France’s National Cinema Centre (CNC) in 2022 had a women at the helm for the first time in history, according to figures released by the body ...
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 criticised in recent years for failing to recognise female directors. [9] Of the 257 individual directors nominated in the history of the award, only 9 have been women; [10] and only 3 of the 75 winners have been women. [11]