Female directors

Despite a best picture, comedy nom for Greta Gerwig's "Lady Bird," the HFPA stuck with an all-male group for its best director nominations.

Greta Gerwig has filmed a remake of “Little Women,” Louisa May Alcott’s classic book about four humble sisters named Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy growing up outside Civil War–era Boston.

The Oscar nominations may not reflect it, but there were plenty of excellent movies with female directors released last year.

The film-maker talks to Alexandra Pollard about growing up gay at a time before the internet, male privilege in cinema, and why Wonder Woman changed her life

Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an award-winning American writer, producer and director with several multi-genre films under her belt.

Here's a look at the women who were silenced long after the silent film era ended. These are the groundbreaking female filmmakers of early Hollywood and beyond.

10 Black Female Directors Making Major Moves - In recent years, we’ve come to realize visibility doesn’t only matter in front of the camera, we need women and people of color behind the scenes calling the shots, particularly from the director’s chair. That’s exactly what these 10 Black women are doing, whether on the set of cable and network TV shows or feature […] The post 10 Black Female Directors Making Major Moves appeared first on Seeing Butterflies .

Lina Wertmüller can't fathom "what took so long" for the academy to honor her. But she's grateful she'll soon receive an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards.