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Kapitel (For Women: Chapter 1); writer and director: Cristina Perincioli – award-winning documentary fiction on a women's strike in Berlin; 1972 Sambizanga; director: Sarah Maldoror – feature film about the liberation movement in Angola; 1972 The Heartbreak Kid; director: Elaine May; 1972 The Other Side of the Underneath; director Jane Arden
The percentage of female writers (11.8%) and producers (22%) can be seen as high compared to female directors (7.5%). Of the 7.5% of female directors, three of them were African American and one was Asian. [32] For the top 100 films every year from 2007 until 2015, of the 800 films, 4.1% were directed by females. [32]
"Study: Women Film Directors Saw Their Numbers Shrink in 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Randall, Melissa (March 13, 2023). "The Best Female Directors: Celebrating Trailblazing Films & TV Shows". New York Film Academy. Smith, Anna (27 November 2019). "Top 100 films directed by women: What is the 'female ...
The biggest year for best picture noms for movies produced by women was 2019, delivering eight films with female producers attached, including Kwak Sin-ae, who would become the first woman of ...
In 2019, the BBC polled 368 film experts from 84 countries to name the 100 best films by women directors. The top three named were (in ascending order) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, directed by Chantal Akerman; Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda; and The Piano, directed by Jane Campion. Varda was the most-named ...
The limp excuse that there just aren't enough good films made by women to crack the upper echelons of awards contention hasn't held water for a long time, but 2018 beat it into oblivion.
Jamie Babbit; Héctor Babenco; Lloyd Bacon; Clarence G. Badger; John Badham; Bae Yong-Kyun; Cindy Baer; Prince Bagdasarian; King Baggot; Nadeem Baig; Prano Bailey-Bond
Four directors have twice won for films that did not win Best Picture: Frank Borzage, George Stevens, Ang Lee, and Alfonso Cuarón; John Ford did so three times. The Coen Brothers are the only siblings to have won the award. [111] Lina Wertmüller was the first woman nominated in the category, for Seven Beauties (1976).