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Mar 7, 2024 · The (very) brief Oscars history of women nominated for Best Director In the Academy Awards' 96-year history, only eight women have been nominated in the category. By Teodosia Dobriyanova on...
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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 1, 2024 · But it gets even more shocking: of those eight women, only three women have ever been awarded the Oscar for Best Director. And no one can tell us that there were no other good female directors apart from these.
First woman to be nominated for Best Production Design (Color). First woman with multiple nominations in production categories. First woman to be nominated in both production categories.
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."
Apr 18, 2021 · A complete list of every Academy Award for Best Production Design winner, plus the top 20 winners ranked with a look back at their work.
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