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It is no secret that men dominate most industries, especially the film industry. But after a summer of Greta Gerwig ‘s record breaking ‘Barbie’, here are 24 female filmmakers that have broken the mold and succeeded in an industry of men.
Lina Wertmüller
Lina Wertmüller was born in Italy in 1928. She studied theater at the Faculty of Arts in Rome. At the very beginning of her career, she became close to the highly acclaimed filmmaker Federico Fellini and was his assistant on ‘8 ½’ (1963).
‘The Basilisks’ (1961) was her first feature and she made her mark with the clandestine love affair tale of ‘The Seduction of Mimi’ (1972). Not long after, her most acclaimed work, ‘Seven Beauties’ (1975), premiered. The film follows the life of a not very successful crook who essentially makes his living out of “protecting” his seven sisters, who is arrested for murder and ends up in the army in World War II and then a German concentration camp.
Wertmüller earned a DGA Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for ‘Seven Beauties’ (1975). Even though Wertmüller was the first woman to be nominated for directing, she did not win an Oscar until she was a recipient of the honorary Oscar for her contribution to cinema.
Wertmüller has been nominated for 3 Academy Awards, 2 Cannes Film Festival, and 1 DGA Award. She made history by being the first woman nominated for an Oscar for best director.
Wertmüller is best known for her work in ‘Seven Beauties’ (1975), ‘The Basilisks’ (1963), ‘The Seduction of Mimi’ (1972), and ‘Love & Anarchy’ (1973). Additional credits include ‘Brother Sun, Sister Moon’ (1972), and ‘Swept Away’ (1974).
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Jane Campion
Jane Campion was born in New Zealand in 1954. Along with her brother and sister, Anna and Michael, Campion grew up participating in the world of New Zealand theater, as her parents founded the New Zealand Players theater company.
Drawn to the arts, Campion first graduated fron Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in Anthropology before she received a postgraduate diploma in visual arts for painting from the Sydney College of the Arts, at the University of Sydney.
After finding creative limitations of painting, she decided to try a new form of art , which led her to filmmaking. In 1983, she received a diploma in directing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
Campion is the second of five women nominated for the Oscar for Best Director with ‘The Piano’ (1994), but only won the award for the same category almost a decade later for her work in ‘The Power of the Dog’ (2022). Campion was also the first female filmmaker in history to receive the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival Award. She has been nominated for 3 BAFTAs, 2 Golden Globes and 2 DGA Awards for her achievement in directing.
Campion is known for her work in ‘The Piano’ (1993), ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ (1996) and ‘The Power of the Dog’ (2021). Additional credits include ‘Top of the Lake’ (2013-2017), ‘Holy Smoke’ (1999), and ‘In the Cut’ (2003).
Patty Jenkins
Patty Jenkins was born in the United States in1971. Jenkins began her career as a painter at The Cooper Union in New York City. As she transitioned to filmmaking, Jenkins was a First Assistant Camera (1st AC) in commercials for eight years. She then went to AFI for their Directing program, Class of 2000.
Jenkins wrote and directed her first feature film starring Charlize Theron called ‘Monster’ (2003). The film got many award nominations and wins, including 1 Academy Award nomination, 1 Golden Globe nomination, 1 BAFTA nomination, 1 Critics Choice Award nomination and 1 SAG nomination. The success of the film also guaranteed Jenkins many directorial opportunities, from commercials to Television shows.
Jenkins has made history by being the first woman to direct a major superhero film (‘Wonder Woman’). The blockbuster became one of Rotten Tomatoes’ highest-rated superhero films of all time.
Jenkins has been nominated for 1 Cannes Film Festival Award, 2 DGA Awards and 1 Primetime Emmy.
Patty Jenkins is best known for directing DCs’ box office record breaking film ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Wonder Woman 1984’, her debut Oscar-winning feature ‘Monster’, ‘The Killing’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Entourage’, ‘Betrayal’, ‘Exposed’, and ‘I Am the Night’.
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow was born in the United States in 1951. Before she became one of the most renowned female directors of all time, Bigelow was a painter. She took courses at the San Francisco Art Institute , she also received a scholarship from the Whitney Museum in New York and graduated from Columbia Film School.
Bigelow made her debut with ‘The Loveless’ (1982), but she stood out with the rather radical modernization of the vampire myth, ‘Near Dark’ (1987). In 2008, Bigelow directed the war drama ‘The Hurt Locker’, which follows U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The film received 9 Oscar nominations and won 6 of those nominations, including the Best Achievement in Directing, which made Bigelow the first female director to ever win an Oscar in the Best Director category. The film was also the most acclaimed and crowned film of 2010, with no less than 75 international awards. Following the success of ‘The Hurt Locker’, Bigelow focused on the theme of war and the Middle East for her next project called ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ (2012).
Kathryn Bigelow was nominated for 3 Academy Awards, 4 BAFTAs, 2 Critics Choice, 3 DGA Awards, 1 Primetime Emmy and 2 Golden Globes.
Bigelow is best known for her work in ‘The Hurt Locker’ (20090, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ (2012), ‘The Loveless’ (1982), ‘Strange Days’ (1995), ‘The Weight of Water’ (2000), ‘K-19: The Widowmaker’ (2002), ‘Wild Palms’ (1993), ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ (1998-1999), ‘Detroit’ (2017), and ‘Point Break’ (1991).
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Dee Rees
Dee Rees was born in the United States in 1977. She graduated from the NYU film program and was a fellow of the 2008 Sundance Screenwriting & Directing Lab.
Rees’ feature film ‘Pariah’ premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. ‘Pariah’ was actually Ress’ thesis film project at NYU, the short played at 40 film festivals around the world, winning many awards. At NYU, Rees was taught by Spike Lee, who became an active mentor of hers. In fact, Lee was an Executive Producer on the feature version of ‘Pariah’. The film received many award nominations including a GLAAD Media Award, 2 Sundance Film Festival Award, and 7 NAACP Image Award.
Dee Rees has been nominated for 1 Oscar, 1 Critics Choice Award, 1 DGA Award, 2 Primetime Emmys, and 1 WGA Award.
Rees is best known for her work in ‘Bessie’ (2015), ‘Empire’ (in 2015), ‘Masters of the Air’ (2024), and ‘Mudbound’ (2017).
Emerald Fennell
Emerald Fennell was born in England in 1985. She started as an actor. In fact, Fennell gained popularity as an actor after her roles in period pieces. Behind the camera, she became popular for being the showrunner for season two of the BBC thriller series ‘Killing Eve’ (2019). She made her directorial debut in 2020 with ‘Promising Young Woman’, which guaranteed her an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a nomination for Best Director.
Emerald Fennell has been nominated for 3 Academy Awards, 4 BAFTAs, 2 Critics Choice Awards, 1 DGA Award, 3 Primetime Emmys, 2 Golden Globes, 1 SAG, and 1 WGA Award.
Fennell is best known for her work behind the camera with ‘Promising Young Woman’ (2020), ‘Killing Eve’ (2019) and ‘Saltburn’ (2023). She is also known for her work in front of the camera with ‘Barbie’ (2023), ‘Anna Karenina’ (2012), ‘The Danish Girl’ (2015), ‘Call the Midwife’ (2013-2017) and ‘The Crown’ (2019-2020).
Chloe Zhao
Chloe Zhao was born in Beijing in 1982, and raised between Beijing. She attended boarding school in London and finished her studies at Los Angeles High School. She majored in politics at Mount Holyoke College. Zhao then attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Zhao’s first feature film, ‘Songs My Brothers Taught Me’ (2015) was set on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The film got nominations from important film festivals such as Sundance and Cannes. Her next film ‘The Rider’ (2017) was also acclaimed at festivals.
Zhao’s next project would change her life and her career forever. Her film ‘Nomadland’ swept the 93rd annual Academy Awards in 2021, winning best picture as well as best director, making Zhao the first woman of color to receive an Academy Award for best director and only the second woman to win that category in nearly a century – the first one being Kathryn Bigelow. The film also won Golden Globes and BAFTAs for best picture and best director.
Chloe Zhao has been nominated for 4 Academy Awards, 4 BAFTAs, 3 Critics Choice Awards, 1 DGA Award, 2 Golden Globes, and 2 Cannes Film Festival Awards.
Zhao is best known for her work in ‘Nomadland’ (2020), ‘Songs My Brother Taught Me’ (2015) and ‘Eternals’ (2021).
Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig was born in the United States in 1983. She attended an all-girls Catholic school in Sacramento (much like the protagonist in her debut feature ‘Lady Bird’ (2017)). She graduated from Barnard College with a degree in English and philosophy.
Gerwig gained popularity as an actor after her roles in ‘Frances Ha’ (2012) and ‘20th Century Women’ (2016). Behind the camera, she became popular for directing films such as ‘Lady Bird’ (2017) and ‘Little Women’ (2019). She made her directorial debut with a semi-biological coming of age story about a young girl finding her way in the world. ‘Lady Bird’ (2017) was nominated for 3 BAFTAs, 8 Critics Choice Awards, 4 Golden Globes, and 5 Academy Awards, including Best Director. Gerwig was also nominated for a DGA Award for her directing. Her next feature, ‘Little Women’ (2029), would also receive great praise.
In the Summer of 2023, Gerwig’s third feature, ‘Barbie’, became the highest-ever global haul for a live-action movie from a female director.
Greta Gerwig has been nominated for 4 Academy Awards, 3 BAFTAs, 8 Critics Choice Awards, 2 DGA Awards, 4 Golden Globes, and 3 WGA Awards.
Gerwig is best known for her work behind the camera with ‘Lady Bird’ (2017), ‘Little Women’ (2019) and ‘Barbie’ (2023). She is also known for her work in front of the camera with ‘Frances Ha’ (2012), ‘Jackie’ (2016), ‘20th Century Women’ (2016), and voice-over in ‘Isle of Dogs’ (2018).
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Niki Caro
Niki Caro was born in New Zealand in 1966. She graduated from Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts and got a diploma at Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology.
Caro‘s feature debut was ‘Memory and Desire’, but she gained popularity after her 2002 adaptation of Witi Ihimaera novel ‘Whale Rider’. Caro’s Hollywood debut was ‘North Country’, which received nominations for 2 Academy Awards, 2 Golden Globes, 2 BAFTAs, 2 Critics Choice Awards and 2 SAGs. In 2017, Caro directed ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ and in 2020 she directed the live action version of the Disney classic ‘Mulan’.
Niki Caro has been nominated for 1 BAFTA, 2 Cannes Film Festival Awards, and 1 DGA Award.
Caro is best known for her work in ‘Memory & Desire’ (1998), ‘Mercy Peak’ (2001-2004), ‘Whale Rider’ (2002), ‘North Country’ (2005), ‘Anne with an E’ (2017), ‘Mulan’ (2020), and ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ (2017).
Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay was born in the United States in 1972. Then she earned degrees in English and African American studies from UCLA.
In 2010, DuVernay directed her feature debut called ‘I Will Follow’. Her second feature film, ‘Middle of Nowhere’ (2012) won the award for Best Direction at Sundance Film Festival, making her the first African American woman to win Best Director at Sundance. DuVernay’s social commentary films ‘Selma’ (2014), ‘13th’ (2016) and current ‘Origin’ (2023) received critical acclaim as well as multiple awards.
Ava DuVernay has been nominated for 1 Oscar, 1 BAFTA, 1 Critics Choice Award, 1 DGA Award, 6 Primetime Emmys, and 1 Golden Globe.
DuVernay is best known for her work in ‘13th’ (2016), ‘When They See Us’ (2019), ‘Queen Sugar’ (2016-2022), and her most current project ‘Origin’ (2023).
Megan Park
Megan Park was born in Canada in 1986. She attended Oakridge Secondary School, in London, Ontario.
Park gained popularity as an actor after her roles in ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’ (2008-2013), ‘So Undercover’ (2012), and ‘A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song’ (2011).
Megan Park made her feature debut in 2022 with a coming-of-age film about a high schooler navigating the emotional fallout she experiences in the wake of a school tragedy, ‘The Fallout’. The film was nominated for 1 GLAAD Award, and 3 SXSW Film Festival Awards. Her follow-up film, ‘My Old Ass’, is to premiere in theaters on September 13, 2024. The film stars Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella and has been receiving praise during its festival run and seems to be a promising next step in Park’s career.
Megan Park is in the start of what will be a long career as a director and has been nominated for 2 SXSW Film Festival Awards.
Park is best known for her work behind the camera in her 2021 debut feature ‘The Fallout’ and her latest project ‘My Old Ass’ (2024). She is also known for her work in front of the camera with ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’ (2008-2013), ‘So Undercover’ (2012), ‘A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song’ (2011), ‘Imposters’ (2017), ‘The Lottery’ (2014), ‘What If’ (2013), ‘The Neighbors’ (2013-2014), and ‘Room’ (2015).
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Alice Wu
Alice Wu was born in the United States in 1970. She graduated from Los Altos High School. She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University and earned her B.S. and later her master’s degree in Computer Science.
Her feature debut, ‘Saving Face’, tells the story of a lesbian coming out in the Taiwanese American community, which is something Wu can relate to. The film received a GLAAD Award nomination that year. Her next feature was ‘The Half of It’ (2020), which also received a GLAAD Award nomination.
Alice Wu is in the start of what will be a very promising career as a director and has been nominated for 1 Tribeca Film Festival Award.
Wu is best known for her work in ‘Saving Face’ (2004) and ‘The Half of It’ (2020).
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Gina Prince-Bythewood was born in the United States in 1969. She attended UCLA’s film school.
Prince-Bythewood’s feature debut was ‘Love & Basketball’ (2000), which she wrote and directed. The film was very well received by the critics and the public. Eight years later, Prince-Bythewood directed her second film ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ , which received numerous awards, including a Critics Choice Award.
Gina Prince-Bythewood has been nominated for 1 BAFTA and 1 Critics Choice Award.
Prince-Bythewood is best known for her work in ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ (2008), ‘Love & Basketball’ (2000), and ‘The Woman King’ (2022).
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola was born in the United States in 1971.
In 1999, Coppola had her feature directing debut with ‘The Virgin Suicides’ (1999), which was well received in Cannes, with 2 Cannes Film Festival Award nominations. Her next feature would change her career and make her the respected director she is today. ‘Lost in Translation’ (2003) was critically acclaimed by the Industry and received various award nominations, from 4 Oscars, 8 BAFTAs, 5 Critics Choice Awards, 1 DGA Award, and 5 Golden Globes. The film won her the Academy Award for best original screenplay and got her a Best Director nomination at the Oscars.
Sofia Coppola has been nominated for 3 Academy Awards, 3 BAFTAs, 2 Critics Choice Awards, 7 Cannes Film Festival Awards, 2 DGA Awards, 1 Primetime Emmy, and 2 Golden Globes.
Coppola is best known for her work in ‘Lost in Translation’ (2003), ‘The Virgin Suicides’ (1999), ‘Marie Antoinette’ (2006), ‘A Very Murray Christmas’ (2015), ‘The Beguiled’ (2017), and her most recent project ‘Priscilla’ (2023).
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Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma was born in France in 1978.
In 2007, Sciamma made her feature debut with ‘Water Lilies’, which was nominated for 2 Cannes Film Festival Awards. Sciamma‘s fourth feature film, ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (2019) was very well received by the critics and the public. In fact, the film was nominated for 1 BAFTA, 1 Critics Choice, 3Cannes Film Festival Awards, 1 GLAAD Award and 1 Golden Globe.
Celine Sciamma has been nominated for 2 BAFTAs and 6 Cannes Film Festival Awards.
Sciamma is best known for her work in ‘Tomboy’ (2011), ‘Water Lilies’ (2007), ‘Girlhood’ (2014), and ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (2019).
Agnes Varda
Agnes Varda was born in Belgium in 1928. She studied art history at the École du Louvre, photography at the École des Beaux-Art and the Lycée et collège Victor-Duruy. Varda also received a bachelor’s degree in literature and psychology from the Sorbonne.
Varda’s feature debut was ‘La Pointe Courte’ (1954) and was praised by the Industry. With no film school or industry experience, Varda is considered the grandmother and mother of the French New Wave, a movement that changed French cinema forever.
Agnes Varda has been nominated for 2 Oscars (1 was honorary), 5 Cannes Film Festival Awards (2 honorary) and 1 DGA Award.
Varda is best known for her work in ‘Cléo from 5 to 7’ (1962), ‘The Creatures’ (1966), ‘Mur murs’ (1981), ‘Cinévardaphoto’ (2004), ‘Ydessa, the Bears and etc…’ (2004), ‘The Gleaners & I’ (2000), and ‘Vagabond’ (1985).
Lulu Wang
Lulu Wang was born in Beijing in 1983. Wang studied music and literature at Boston College. After finishing her degree, she moved to Los Angeles and worked as an intern for a film producer.
Wang’s feature debut was ‘Posthumous’ (2014) and her next feature was the acclaimed ‘The Farewell’ (2019), which received nominations for 1 BAFTA, 4 Critics Choice Awards and 2 Golden Globes.
Lulu Wang has been nominated for 1 BAFTA and 2 Sundance Film Festival Awards.
Wang is best known for her work in ‘The Farewell’ (2019), ‘Posthumous’ (2014), and ‘The Expats’ (2023-2024).
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Mira Nair
Mira Nair was born in India in 1957. She majored in sociology at Delhi University and attended Harvard University.
Nair’s debut feature film, ‘Salaam Bombay!’ was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988. In 2001, Nair directed ‘Monsoon Wedding’, which won a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Nair‘s next feature was an HBO original film, ‘Hysterical Blindness’ (2002), that received nominations for 7 Primetime Emmy and 2 Golden Globes.
Mira Nair has been nominated for 2 BAFTAs and 2 Cannes Film Festival Awards.
Nair is best known for her work in ‘Vanity Fair’ (2004), ‘Monsoon Wedding’ (2001), ‘The Namesake’ (2006), ‘ New York, I Love You’ (2008), and ‘Queen of Katwe’ (2016).
Lucrecia Martel
Lucrecia Martel was born in Argentina in 1966. She attended an Argentina film school named ENERC.
Martel’s feature debut was ‘The Swamp’ (2001), which received an award at the Sundance Film Festival. Since then she has managed to make three very personal feature films like ‘The Holy Girl’ (2004) and ‘The Headless Woman’ (2008).
Lucrecia Martel has been nominated for 2 Cannes Film Festival Awards and 1 Sundance Film Festival Award.
Martel is best known for her work in ‘Historias Breves 1’ (1996), ‘The Swamp’ (2001), ‘The Holy Girl’ (2004), ‘The Headless Woman’ (2008), and ‘Zama’ (2017).
Kasi Lemmons
Kasi Lemmons was born in the United States in 1961. She attended Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, she also attended UCLA and The New School of Social Research Film Program.
Lemmons’ feature debut was ‘Eve’s Bayou’ (1997), which received many awards, including a Critics Choice Award. In 2019, she directed the Oscar nominated film ‘Harriet’, starring Cynthia Erivo.
Kasi Lemmons has received 16 nominations at film festivals, such as Image Awards (NAACP) to Athena Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
Lemmons is best known for her work in front of the camera ‘Disconnect’ (2012), ‘Candyman’ (1992) and ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991). Behind the camera, Lemmons is known for her work in ‘Harriet’ (2019), ‘Eve’s Bayou’ (1997), ‘Talk to Me’ (2007), ‘Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker’ (2020), ‘Women of the Movement’ (2022), and her most recent work ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody’ (2022).
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Justine Triet
Justine Triet was born in France in 1978. She is a graduated from the Paris National School of Fine Arts.
Her first feature, ‘Age of Panic’ (2013) has been acclaimed as one of the best works of the latest new wave of French directors. Her most recent project, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ (2023), received several award nominations: 7 BAFTAs, 3 Critics Choice Awards, 3 Cannes Film Festival Awards, 4 Golden Globes and 5 Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay, which Triet won.
Justine Triet has been nominated for 2 Oscars, 3 BAFTAs, 3 Cannes Film Festival Awards and 1 Golden Globe.
Triet is best known for her work in ‘Age of Panic’ (2013), ‘Solférino’ (2009), ‘Victoria’ (2016), ‘Sibyl’ (2019), and ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ (2023).
Celine Song
Celine Song was born in South Korea in 1988. She got a masters in arts for playwriting from Columbia University.
Song’s debut feature completely changed her career. ‘Past Lives’ (2023) is one of the most critically acclaimed films of the past year, receiving over 200 award nominations, including 3 BAFTAs, 3 Critics Choice Awards, 1 DGA Award, 5 Golden Globes and 2 Academy Awards.
Celine Song has been nominated for 1 Academy Award, 2 BAFTAs, 1 Critics Choice Award, 1 DGA Award, 1 WGA Award, and 2 Golden Globes.
Song is best known for her work in ‘The Wheel of Time’ (2021) and the critically acclaimed ‘Past Lives’ (2023).
Emma Seligman
Emma Seligman was born in Canada in 1995. She studied film at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Seligman’s thesis film ‘Shiva Baby’ was selected for the 2018 SXSW Film Festival and later developed into a feature length project, starring the same lead actress from the short, Rachel Sennott. ‘Shiva Baby’ (2020) got Seligman a DGA Award nomination. Her next feature, ‘Bottoms’ came out in 2024 and has been critically acclaimed and a great success with the public, especially within the LGBTQIA+ community.
Emma Seligman has been nominated for 1 DGA Award and Sundance Film Festival Award.
Seligman is best known for her work in ‘Shiva Baby’ (2020) and ‘Bottoms’ (2023).
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