"2009, the critics’ group have agreed with the Academy on six occasions: Steven Soderbergh for ""Traffic"" (2000), Clint Eastwood for ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), Ang Lee for ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005), Martin Scorsese for ""The Departed"" (2006), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), and Kathryn Bigelow for ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009). Oscar winner denoted by * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking."
"history. Of the 55 films that have been awarded Best Film, 24 have also been awarded Best Director. The first one to achieve this was Ingmar Bergman, whose film ""The Silence"" won the Best Film award at the first 1st Guldbagge Awards. The last one who achieved this was Magnus von Horn through his film, ""The Here After"" at the 51st Guldbagge Awards (2015). The first woman who won the award for Best Director was Marianne Ahrne, for the film ""Near and Far Away"" (1976). Besides her, only nine women have ever been awarded for Best Director: Suzanne Osten for"
"who became the first female director to be nominated for an Academy Award with ""Paw"", Susanne Bier, the first female director to win a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and a European Film Award, and Lone Scherfig, whose films have been nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTAs and a European Film Award. The oldest Danish film award is named Bodil Award after Bodil Ipsen and Bodil Kjer, and the Alice Award, which is award to the best female director at the Copenhagen International Film Festival is named in honor of Alice O'Fredericks. In the silent era French women"
"and the depth of her work."" Campion was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2016 New Year Honours, for services to film. Jane Campion Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. Campion is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is the first—and thus far, only—female filmmaker in history to receive the ""Palme d'Or"", which she received for directing the acclaimed film ""The Piano"" (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"announced during the awards ceremony on March 7, 2010. Kathryn Bigelow made history as the first female to win the Oscar for Best Director. ""Up"" became the second animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" was the first such film to achieve this feat. Best Adapted Screenplay winner Geoffrey Fletcher was the first African American winner of a screenwriting Oscar. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The Academy held its 1st Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 14, 2009, during which the following awards were presented."
"nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (""The Bad and the Beautiful"" and ""Hans Christian Andersen"", both with six). This occurred again at the 79th Academy Awards. Shirley Booth became the last person born in the 19th century to win an Oscar in a Leading Role. She is also the first woman in her 50s to win the award, at the age of 54 (the second woman in her 50s to win, Julianne Moore, was 54 when awarded at the 87th Academy Awards). John Ford's fourth win for Best Director set a record for the most wins"
"Jane Campion Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. Campion is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is the first—and thus far, only—female filmmaker in history to receive the ""Palme d'Or"", which she received for directing the acclaimed film ""The Piano"" (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the second daughter of Edith (née Beverley Georgette Hannah), an actress, writer, and heiress, and Richard M. Campion, a theatre and"
"6518 Hollywood Blvd. The Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival gives out the Lois Weber Award in her honor since 2017. Lois Weber Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director. She is identified in some historical references as ""the most important female director the American film industry has known"", and among “the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films"". Film historian Anthony Slide has also asserted, ""Along with D.W. Griffith, Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects"
"to director Aleksandr Dovzhenko and collaborated with him on his later films, including ""Michurin"" (1949), for which she was awarded a Stalin Prize. For ""The Chronicle of Flaming Years"" she won the Best Director award at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR when she turned 80. Yuliya Solntseva Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (; 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet actress and film director. As an actress, she is known for starring in the silent sci-fi classic ""Aelita"" (1924). She is the first female winner of the Best Director Award"
"Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American director, producer, and writer. Covering a wide range of genres, her films include ""Near Dark"" (1987), ""Point Break"" (1991), ""Strange Days"" (1995), """" (2002), ""The Hurt Locker"" (2008), ""Zero Dark Thirty"" (2012), and ""Detroit"" (2017). With ""The Hurt Locker"", Bigelow became the first woman to win any of the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director. She also became the first woman to win the"
"the Academy Awards, there have been 11 female documentary directors that have won Oscars for Best Documentary Feature. Barbara Kopple received two of those awards with her films ""Harlan County, USA"" (1977) and ""American Dream"" (1991). Yvonne Smith's film ""Adam Clayton Powell"" (1990) was nominated as well, making her the first African American producer to be nominated for 'Best Documentary Feature'. The Center of the Study of Women in Television and Film has dedicated 18 years to the study of women in the film industry. An annual report is created, discussing how women have contributed to as filmmakers. Most of"
"Alice Award The Alice Award was a Danish film award presented annually at the Copenhagen International Film Festival to the Best Female Director. The award was named after Danish director Alice O'Fredericks (1899–1964) who, with 72 feature films, is the most productive film director in Danish cinematic history, and her 1950 film ""The Red Horses"" remains Denmark's greatest audience success. The award was created by the international network of Women in Film and TV and presented at the Copenhagen festival for the first time in 2004. The intent of the award is to draw attention to the lack in the"
"of ""The Eyes of Laura Mars"". Ziskin was married to writer Alvin Sargent from 2010 until her death. Laura Ziskin Laura Ellen Ziskin (March 3, 1950 – June 12, 2011) was an American film producer, known as the Executive Producer of the romantic comedy ""Pretty Woman"" (1990) and as the first woman to produce the Academy Awards telecast alone, producing the 74th Academy Awards (2002) and the 79th Academy Awards (2007). Ziskin was born and raised in a Jewish family in the San Fernando Valley, California, the daughter of Jay Ziskin and Elaine Edelman. Jay was a psychologist and lawyer"
"Academy Award for Best Actress The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in ""7th Heaven"", ""Street Angel"", and """". Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible"
"Frances Marion Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens, November 18, 1888 – May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos. She was the first writer to win two Academy Awards. Marion was born Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, to Len Owens and Minnie Benson. She had an older sister, Maude, and a younger brother, Len. Her parents divorced when she was ten, and she lived with her mother. She dropped out of school at age 12,"
"Kimberly Peirce Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American feature film director, best known for her debut feature film, ""Boys Don't Cry"" (1999), which won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hilary Swank's performance. Her second feature, ""Stop-Loss"", was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Her most recent feature film, ""Carrie"", was released on October 18, 2013. She is a Governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and a National Board member of the Director's Guild of America. Peirce was born on September 8, 1967, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Sherry and Robert A."
"Awards, six Hispanic/Latino directors have been nominated a total of eight times in this category with four wins among them. Academy Award for Best Director The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with the award being split into ""Dramatic"" and ""Comedy"" categories; Frank Borzage and Lewis Milestone won"
"Best Art Direction and has been nominated for two more: Patrizia von Brandenstein Patrizia von Brandenstein (born April 15, 1943) is an American production designer. She was the first woman to win an Academy Award for production design and has been nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction. She has shown versatility in creating sets for both lavish historical films and glossy contemporary fare. She was born in Arizona to German Russian emigrant parents. Her education abroad closed with two years as an apprentice at the famed Comédie Française. She started with the off-Broadway scene of 1960s"
"Susanne Bier Susanne Bier (, born 15 April 1960) is a Danish film director. She is best known for her feature films ""Brothers"", ""After the Wedding,"" the Academy Award-winning ""In a Better World"" and the TV miniseries ""The Night Manager"". Bier is considered one of the greatest living film directors and she is the first female director to win a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and a European Film Award. Susanne Bier was born to a Jewish family in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 15, 1960. Her father's family, Rudolf Salomon Baer (born 1930), emigrated from Germany to"
"uniformly skilled four-member cast"". Jenson is the sister of classical violinist Dylana Jenson. Vicky Jenson Victoria ""Vicky"" Jenson (born 1960) is a film director of both live-action and animated films, and has been said to be ""one of Hollywood's most inspiring female Directors"". She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation including ""Shrek"", the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, giving rise to one of Hollywood's largest film franchises. Jenson began painting animation cells at the age of 13. She attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and California State University Northridge. She ""started"
"Tony wins. At the age of thirty-two years and thirty-eight days, Damien Chazelle became the youngest person to win Best Director; Norman Taurog was only two hundred and twenty-two days older than Chazelle when he won Best Director for the 1931 comedy ""Skippy"". Kevin O'Connell finally ended the longest losing streak in Oscar history after 20 unsuccessful nominations for sound mixing, winning for ""Hacksaw Ridge"". ""Moonlight""s Dede Gardner became the first woman to win twice for producing, following her previous Best Picture win for ""12 Years a Slave"". Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double"
"Janet Gaynor Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American film, stage and television actress and painter. Gaynor began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century-Fox) in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era. In 1929, she was the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: ""7th Heaven"" (1927), """" (1927), and ""Street Angel"" (1928). This was the only occasion on which"
"Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received a record of four Academy Awards for Best Actress. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years"
"Academy Award for Best Director The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with the award being split into ""Dramatic"" and ""Comedy"" categories; Frank Borzage and Lewis Milestone won for ""7th Heaven"" and ""Two Arabian Knights"", respectively. However, these categories were merged for all subsequent ceremonies. Nominees are determined"
"Academy Award for Best Film Editing was created in 1934, Bauchens received one of the three nominations for her editing of ""Cleopatra"". She later won the Academy Award for ""North West Mounted Police"" (1940) and became the first woman to win the Oscar in that category. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing again twice, first for ""The Greatest Show on Earth"" in 1952 and then for ""The Ten Commandments"" in 1956. In total, Bauchens is credited with editing on 41 films directed by DeMille and on 20 films with other directors. Despite her long career and"
"Joi McMillon became the first African-American to be nominated for Best Film Editing since Hugh A. Robertson for ""Midnight Cowboy"", as well as the first black woman to be nominated for that award. Octavia Spencer became the first African-American actress to be nominated after having already won before. ""Moonlight"" became the first film with an all-black cast to win the Best Picture award. Additionally, the ceremony had the most black winners of the Academy Awards ever. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won the Best Foreign Language Film for ""The Salesman"", was revealed to initially be unable to attend the ceremony"
"Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress award was awarded for acting in a film, on May 16, 1929 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Academy Awards to Janet Gaynor for her role of Diane in ""7th Heaven"", Angela in ""Street Angel"" and The Wife - Indre in """". In theatre, it was first awarded on April 6, 1947 by the"
"Yuliya Solntseva Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (; 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet actress and film director. As an actress, she is known for starring in the silent sci-fi classic ""Aelita"" (1924). She is the first female winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes film festival in the 20th century and the first woman to win a directing prize at any of the major European film festivals, for the film ""Chronicle of Flaming Years"", a war drama about Russian resistance to Nazi occupation in 1941. Solntseva directed 14 films between 1939 and 1979. She was married"
"""Be better!"" However, Heston notes that by the time a scene is done, regardless of how hard it was to do, it always came off well: Fourteen actors won Oscars under Wyler's direction, including Bette Davis in ""Jezebel"" (1938) and her nomination for ""The Letter"" (1940). Davis summed up their work together: ""It was ""he"" who helped me to realize my full potential as an actress. I met my match in this exceptionally creative and talented director."" Other Oscar winners were Olivia de Havilland in ""The Heiress"" (1949), Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, ""Roman Holiday"" (1953), Charlton Heston in"
"Sarah Y. Mason Sarah Y. Mason (March 31, 1896 – November 28, 1980) was an American screenwriter and script supervisor. Mason was born Sarah Yeiser Mason in Pima, Arizona. She and her husband Victor Heerman won the Academy Award for best screenplay adaptation for their adaptation for the 1933 film ""Little Women"", based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. After that success, she and Heerman were the first screenwriters involved in early, never-produced scripts commissioned for what would become MGM's Pride and Prejudice (1940 film). Mason's career is also notable as she was one of the first in Hollywood"
"Golden Globe Award for Best Director The Golden Globe Award for Best Director has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943. Having won all four of his nominations, Elia Kazan has been honored most often in this category. Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, David Lean, Miloš Forman, and Oliver Stone tie for second place with three wins each. Steven Spielberg has had the most nominations (twelve) and has received the award twice. Barbra Streisand is the only woman to"
"Lois Weber Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director. She is identified in some historical references as ""the most important female director the American film industry has known"", and among “the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films"". Film historian Anthony Slide has also asserted, ""Along with D.W. Griffith, Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies."" Weber produced an"