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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 nominated for Best Director. Emerald Fennell: Promising Young Woman: Nominated 2021: Jane Campion The Power of the Dog: Won First woman with multiple nominations in this category. 2023 ...
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]
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 ...
First woman to win Best Director. Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2009) First woman to be nominated for Best Director. Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties (1976) First woman to be nominated twice for Best Director (* = winner) Jane Campion for The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021)* First woman to win Best Animated Feature
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.
The nominations for the 2024 Oscars made history for women directors. Here's how Greta Gerwig, Celine Song and Justine Triet made history. Greta Gerwig becomes 1st woman director to have 3 best ...
Chloé Zhao was the first woman of color to win multiple Oscars in a single year; she won Best Director and Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards, honoring the films of 2020 and 2021. Frances McDormand co-produced with Zhao and won Best Actress for Nomadland, which makes them the first women to simultaneously win multiple Oscars.
It’s no secret that the Academy Awards has often functioned like a (white) boys’ club for American motion pictures. And while the Academy has tried to...