Luckily, we can say that some women have been nominated for (and even took home) the Best Director Oscar, and even for films that became Best Picture Oscar winners. In either instance, the list is ...

"Women Talking" and "The Woman King ... likeliest woman to make it into the intensely competitive director’s race. Like previous Oscar-contending auteurs Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young ...

The 2025 Oscar nominations have yet to be announced, and despite knowing the winners and nominations ... categories like Best Director, which has had 3 total wins by women since the beginning ...

Seven women have been nominated for director in Oscars history, producing only three winners — Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker” (2009), Chloé Zhao for “Nomadland” (2020 ...

Naturally, the next step in Oscar history would be majority female nominees in the category. It might just happen. There are three women in our top 10 for Best Director based on the combined ...

The Best Director award is one of the most coveted — and at times, hot button — trophies at the Academy Awards From lighting to set choice to casting, artful and meticulous directors are the ...

Although women make up half of all film school graduates, the best director Oscar has nominated only ... a sorority of trailblazers, prize winners, household names, and indie darlings.

The Oscar nominations revealed Tuesday did not include any female directors, extending a trend across this season’s awards landscape. It means the modest streak of women winning the Directing ...

In 2009, Kathryn Bigelow made cinematic history with her intense war drama “The Hurt Locker,” becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Her groundbreaking ...