![]() A full list of the nominees and winners can be found here. The other five women are Lina Wertmuller for “Seven Beauties” (1976), Jane Campion for “The Piano” (1993), Sofia Coppola for “Lost in Translation” (2003), and Greta Gerwig for “Lady Bird” (2017). This is the first time that two women have been nominated at the same time for this award. Two of those women were in 2021 (Chloé Zhao for Nomadland and Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman”). ![]() In fact, only 7 women have ever been NOMINATED for the Best Director award. That is 2 women directors since the award started in 1927, just shy of a century ago. The Hurt Locker (2008) directed by Katherine Bigelow is the only film directed by a women to win an Academy Award for Best Director, until 2020 when Chloé Zhao won for Nomadland. ![]() Natalie Portman has worked with 2 female directors on feature films and she was one of them. Ellen Pompeo hadn’t worked with a single female director until she was cast on Grey’s Anatomy. Gillian Anderson notes that she has worked on between 30 and 40 films, but has only worked with probably 3 women directors. In this vein, Marg Helgenberger notes that she acted in 265 episodes of CSI, but that she can count on one hand the number of female directors who directed an episode. I didn’t see that happening for any of my women friends at all. I started to watch my male peers being celebrated and beloved filmmakers. After graduating, she shot her first feature film within a year. While in film school, the students were 50/50 women and men. Maria Giese’s experience of becoming a director is powerful and eye-opening. Virginia Woolf was famous for her work as a writer, so seeing her on screen even in a fictional atmosphere inspired me to keep writing. It was a woman writer and women readers on the screen. That’s why seeing a film like The Hours was powerful for me. I even toyed with the idea of going into that field before I realized that it would involve, you know, science and clearly, I’m more on the artistic side of things. Personally, I loved CSI as a kid, and even now, though finding it to watch is hard. Helgenberger even mentions that women are half the workforce in the forensic science field now. She wasn’t typecast into a girlfriend role, but was a lead character. They loved the show and the strength of her character. Marg Helgenberger, who plays Catherine Willows in CSI, spoke about the power that her role had on young women and girls. Seeing strong women in the forensics field on screen opened the floodgates for women getting involved in the real life forensic science field. The amount of girls taking up archery increased beyond that of adult men. It was extremely prevalent after Brave and The Hunger Games were released. Lesli Link Latter, Director of Homeland TV seriesĪt one point, the film discusses a phenomenon called The CSI Effect. It’s unusual seeing women as complicated, able to make mistakes, able to be funny and sexual, and troubled. Geena discussed how big of an impact starring in this film had on her life. It was written by Callie Khouri, who was tired of women only being objects in media. The first film reflected on is Thelma and Louise, starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon. It is powerful, not only in its primary use of women voices, but also in its recognition of the fact that most media consumed worldwide is produced in the United States, which often has a misogynistic take. Shonda Rhimes, Geena Davis, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Oh, and many others open the film. The documentary opens with some of the most powerful female voices in the media industry discussing those experiences and the importance of including women in media.
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