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This is a list of female film and television directors. Their works may include live action and/or animated features , shorts , documentaries , telemovies , TV programs , or videos . Top
Kapitel (For Women: Chapter 1); writer and director: Cristina Perincioli – award-winning documentary fiction on a women's strike in Berlin; 1972 Sambizanga; director: Sarah Maldoror – feature film about the liberation movement in Angola; 1972 The Heartbreak Kid; director: Elaine May; 1972 The Other Side of the Underneath; director Jane Arden
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 ...
Sadly, in 2023, zero female filmmakers were nominated in the Best Director category. And in 2024, Barbie director Greta Gerwig was famously snubbed in the category.
The Director: Halina Reijn, the celebrated Dutch actress who turned to directing with the 2019 drama Instinct, starring Game of Thrones’s Carice van Houten.She then directed the pitch-perfect ...
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 ...
Female directors, writers, and producers made up 19% of the 1,365 people that it took to create the top 100 films in 2015. The percentage of female writers (11.8%) and producers (22%) can be seen as high compared to female directors (7.5%). Of the 7.5% of female directors, three of them were African American and one was Asian. [32]
Only four other women directors have even been nominated for a directing Oscar. Lina Wertmüller, who died in December, became the first woman nominated in the category ever in 1977 for "Seven ...