Search results
People also ask
Who was the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar?
When was the first woman nominated for Best Director?
Who was the first American woman director nominated for an Oscar?
How many women have won an Oscar for directing?
Dec 10, 2021 · Dec. 10, 2021, 7:07 AM PST. By Variety. Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to score a best director nomination at the Academy Awards, died on Thursday in Italy. She was 93. Wertmüller’s death...
- 1976 - Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties. It took 48 years for the Academy to nominate its first female director. Though women have been directing since at least 1896 (when the French filmmaker Alice Guy started making films) Hollywood did not let many women make movies.
- 1993 - Jane Campion for The Piano. The next female director nominated would come 17 years later. Again, it would not be an American director nominated but the New Zealand-born Jane Campion.
- 2003 - Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation. A decade later, the first American woman director was nominated, 75 years into Oscars history, when Sofia Coppola got a nod for her Lost in Translation, which sees Scarlet Johansson's young woman bond with Bill Murray's aging actor in Tokyo.
- 2009 - Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker. The first woman won Best Director, meanwhile, 81 years into Oscars history, as Kathryn Bigelow surprised many by defeating Avatar, directed by her ex-husband James Cameron, to both Best Picture and Best Director.
Oscars: Who Was The First Woman To Be Nominated For Best Director? Chloé Zhao's and Jane Campion's Oscar wins for Best Director are historical, but it took almost a decade for a woman to be nominated in the category.
Nominated First woman to be nominated in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Score). 1953: Sylvia Fine (lyrics) The Moon Is Blue "The Moon Is Blue" Nominated Shared with Herschel Burke Gilbert (music). 1959: Sylvia Fine (music & lyrics) The Five Pennies "The Five Pennies" Nominated 1960: Dory Langdon (lyrics) Pepe
Mar 27, 2022 · When the 2022 Academy Award nominations were announced in February, Campion — the lone woman among the directing nominees this year — became the first woman to be nominated twice for the...
- tracy.brown@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Mar 11, 2024 · When Lily Gladstone was nominated for the lead actress Oscar for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” she sparked a wave of hope inside and outside Hollywood that she would become the first Native...
Jan 23, 2024 · By Kristian Burt. The nominations for the 2024 Oscars are out, and women directors have made history. Of the 10 films nominated for b est pi cture, three were directed by women — "Past...
