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WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers covers biographical material of individuals involved in the process of making motion pictures, including people in the film industry such as actors, directors, crew, and others who may be listed in the motion picture credits of a film.
WikiProject Women brings Wikipedia users of all genders, sexual orientations, geographic locations, and personal backgrounds together to discuss and collaborate on coverage of women's content across Wikipedia.
Women artists comprise visual and performance artists. This project was inspired by WikiProject Women scientists. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers, which includes works by women writers, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance, which includes women dancers and choreographers.
History - Women in Film. Leading the fight for gender equity in Hollywood since 1973. WIF’s History is a Timeline of Historic Activism and Hollywood Firsts. Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color to win the Best Directing Oscar for 2020’s.
- Margaret Booth // The First Film Editor
- Verna Fields // Mother Cutter
- Melissa Mathison // Mother of E.T.
- Leigh Brackett // Queen of The Space Opera
- Thelma Schoonmaker // Scorsese's Not-So-Secret Weapon
- Dorothy Arzner // Inventor of The Boom Mic
- Edith Head // Film Fashion Pioneer
- Alice Guy // The World's First Female Director
- Lois Weber // Political Provocateur
- Alma Reville // Lady Hitchcock
stayforthecredits// Tumblr Because of the hands-on nature of film editing, early Hollywood considered it women's work, like sewing. "Cutters" were often working-class women willing to take low pay to be a part of filmmaking. But despite the sexism surrounding them, this position allowed these female film lovers a unique place to make critical choic...
The Missouri-born Fields was introduced to moviemaking when her father, Sam Hellman, moved the family to Hollywood to pursue his passion for screenwriting. She started out as a sound editor, but by 1960 had begun to edit feature films. She went on to be a major influence on several major filmmakers, cutting such career-defining films as George Luca...
Getty Images This Los Angeles native might be best known for being the wife of Harrison Ford from 1983-2004, but Melissa Mathison's greatest contribution to cinema is actually crafting the screenplay for one of the most beloved sci-fi movies of all time, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Mathison was with Ford on the set of Raiders of the Lost Ark in 19...
Wikimedia Commons// Public Domain As a young woman, she got her start writing science fiction and pulp crime fiction, both genres of literature that were looked down on as lowbrow. But Brackett didn't care about perception, nor mind that some thought her nickname "The Queen of The Space Opera" was a slam. Instead, she stood up for the genre she ado...
Getty Images Though she is arguably the most famous film editor working, Schoonmaker originally intended to work in politics. But having grown frustrated when her anti-apartheid opinions ruffled feathers in job interviews with the U.S. government, she answered a newspaper ad that offeredon-the-job training as an assistant film editor. While taking ...
Getty Images She got her foot in the door as a typist for Paramount Pictures in 1919. And by 1927, Arzner had made her first of 20 films with Fashions for Women. She was one of a handful of women directing films in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the first woman to join the Director's Guild of America. While others struggled with the medium's trans...
Getty Images Her fashion sense defined decades of American cinema, but before she was draping starlets in the most elegant dresses to hit the silver screen, this step-daughter of a mining engineer earned her Master of Arts degree in romance languages and worked as a school teacher. She began taking art classes, and decided to apply for a job as a s...
Wikimedia Commons// Public Domain Before American filmmakers like D.W. Griffith had even touched a motion picture camera, this Paris-born pioneerwas laying the groundwork for narrative film's visual language, and inspiring future auteur Alfred Hitchcock. After witnessing the Lumière brothers' demonstration of their cinematograph, Guy implored her b...
Wikimedia Commons// Public Domain A protégé of Alice Guy's, this Pennsylvania-born filmmaker became the first American woman to helm a full-length feature film with 1914's The Merchant of Venice, though she co-helmed it with her husband W. Phillips Smalley. But Weber soon earned a racier historical marker, becoming quite possibly the first non-porn...
Getty Images You know Alfred Hitchcock. Even his silhouette has become iconic. But few know how much his work and persona were shaped by his wife. Reville got her start in movies serving tea to the studio elite of England's production scene. But through the 1920s and '30s, this diligent and observant film lover worked her way up to director's assis...
Mar 8, 2019 · Here are 10 incredible women who changed the face of film. Thelma Ritter. One of the most remarkable character actors in the 50s, Thelma Ritter brought great depth and development to even the...
Oct 28, 2019 · Women played essential behind-the-scenes roles as the American movie industry was taking off, Margaret Talbot writes. What happened?
