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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 ...
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 ...
[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.
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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Seven Samurai (1954) topped the BBC poll of best foreign-language films as well as several Japanese polls.. Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951. [3]