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Lina Wertmüller was the first woman nominated in the category, for Seven Beauties (1976). Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the award, for The Hurt Locker (2009). Francis Ford Coppola is the only director to be nominated for each film of a trilogy, The Godfather trilogy, winning for the second film.
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Nominated First woman to direct a film to be nominated for Best International Feature Film. 1976: Lina Wertmüller: Seven Beauties: Nominated 1983: Diane Kurys: Entre Nous: Nominated 1984: María Luisa Bemberg: Camila: Nominated First Latina to direct a film to be nominated for Best International Feature Film. 1985: Agnieszka Holland: Angry ...
- 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.
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. Brenda Chapman for Brave (2012) First woman to be nominated for Best Animated Feature
YearFilm Title Used In NominationOriginal TitleAward Recipient (s)2023 (96th)The Zone of Interest2023 (96th)Past Lives2023 (96th)Anatomie d'une chute2022 (95th)Im Westen nichts NeuesApr 20, 2021 · Movies. Examining Lina Wertmüller, the First Woman Best Director Nominee. by Marya E. Gates. Apr 20 2021 • 10:55 AM. The Oscars made history by nominating two women for best director in the...
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...
Mar 27, 2022 · Lina Wertmüller, who died in December, became the first woman nominated in the category ever in 1977 for “Seven Beauties.” “Lost in Translation” director Sofia Coppola, “Lady Bird” director...
