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1935 Robin Hood (animated film); director: Joy Batchelor; 1935 Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will); director: Leni Riefenstahl; 1936 Craig's Wife; director: Dorothy Arzner; 1937 The Bride Wore Red; director: Dorothy Arzner, a Hollywood studio feature film starring Joan Crawford; 1938 Olympia (1938 film); director: Leni Riefenstahl
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.
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 ...
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.
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The film examines gender inequality in the Hollywood film industry, interviewing women actors and filmmakers including Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Geena Davis, Taraji P. Henson, Shonda Rhimes, and Joey Soloway. In the latter part of the film the groundbreaking work of the Original Six is recognized and five of the Original Six are interviewed.
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 Gerwig: Lady Bird: Nominated 2020 [note 1] Chloé Zhao: Nomadland: Won First woman of color to win and be ...
[1] [2] With the exception of long-time silent film director Lois Weber, from 1927 until her retirement from feature directing in 1943, Arzner was the only female director working in Hollywood. [3] [4] [5] She was one of a very few women able to establish a successful and long career in Hollywood as a film director until the 1970s.