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- 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.
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 Oscar...
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Jan 1, 2024 · Only seven female directors have been recognized at the Oscars, with only three winning in the Best Director category. Greta Gerwig is a strong contender for the Best Director nomination at the 96th Academy Awards, given her successful film "Barbie."
- Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties) Lina Wertmüller had nine feature-length directing credits under her belt, two of which she directed under male pseudonyms, before she became the first woman to be nominated by the Academy for Best Director in 1977.
- Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation) Ten years after The Piano earned Jane Campion a Best Screenplay win (but a Best Director loss – more on that later), history would prove to repeat itself.
- Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) Anticipation for the 2010 Oscars proved to be an exciting time, especially for the Best Director category with Lee Daniels (the second Black director to receive a nomination, for his historical drama The Butler) and The Hurt Locker helmer Kathryn Bigelow (the fourth woman to be nominated in the category) among the year’s nominees.
- Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) Greta Gerwig’s Academy Award nomination for Best Director in 2018 was a big deal, and not just because she was the fifth woman to earn the nod.
- Children of a Lesser God (1986) Randa Haines. Film: “Children of a Lesser God” (1986) Distributed by: Paramount Pictures. Written by: Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff (based on “Children of a Lesser God” by Mark Medoff.
- Awakenings (1990) Penny Marshall. Film: “Awakenings” (1990) Distributed by: Columbia Pictures. Written by: Steven Zaillian (based on “Awakenings” by Oliver Sacks)
- The Prince of Tides (1991) Barbra Streisand. Film: “The Prince of Tides” Distributed by: Columbia Pictures. Written by: Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston (based on the novel “The Prince of Tides” by Pat Conroy)
- The Piano (1993) Jane Campion. Film: “The Piano” Distributed by: Miramax Films. Written by: Jane Campion. Produced by: Jan Chapman. Synopsis: In the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
Mar 24, 2022 · How many women have won best director at the Oscars? In its 94-year history, just two women have been named best director at the Academy Awards (so far) – Kathryn Bigelow and Chloe Zhao.
Mar 24, 2022 · To this day, only seven women have been nominated, and only two have won. After Wertmüller, nearly 20 years passed before the next woman was nominated: Jane Campion, for The Piano, in 1994...
