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Jan 1, 2024 · 8 Lina Wertmüller: Seven Beauties (1976) Lost to John G. Avildsen for Rocky. Lina Wertmüller was the first woman to receive a Best Director nomination, and she was recognized for helming Seven Beauties, a 1975 Italian film.
- 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 · The first woman to win a directing Oscar is Kathryn Bigelow, who was recognized for “Hurt Locker” in 2010. Only four other women directors have even been nominated for a directing Oscar.
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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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Dec 10, 2021 · 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 was reported in the Italian press....
May 9, 2011 · On March 7, 2010, Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for her movie The Hurt Locker, about an American bomb squad that disables explosives in Iraq...
