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"The All-Time Greatest Films Directed by Women". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Follows, Stephen; Kreager, Alexis; Gomes, Eleanor (May 2016). "Cut Out of the Picture: A study of gender inequality amongst film directors in the UK film industry" (PDF). Directors UK. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 5, 2021.
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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 ...
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]
1995 Coûte que coûte (At all costs); director: Claire Simon – documentary; 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
Jamie Babbit; Héctor Babenco; Lloyd Bacon; Clarence G. Badger; John Badham; Bae Yong-Kyun; Cindy Baer; Prince Bagdasarian; King Baggot; Nadeem Baig; Prano Bailey-Bond
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]
The Woman King is a 2022 American historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies.