Sentences with phrase «nominated films directed by women»

For all of the times the Academy has nominated films directed by women for Best Picture, the directors have declined except for four times: Lina Wertmuller in 1976, Jane Campion in 1993, Sofia Coppola in 2002, and Kathryn Bigelow in 2009.

Not exact matches

It's the kind of costume drama that BAFTA usually eats up, about an important historical event, and an excellent film to boot, except of course, it's about a black woman, and directed by a black woman, so why would it be nominated?

I think I'm a little behind on my directed by women and silent film goals, but I watched some films I'd been meaning to watch for years and lots of Oscar nominated and winning films leading up to the Oscars this Sunday.

Nominated for Best Political Documentary were The Reagan Show, directed by Sierra Pettengill (and Pacho Velez), and An Inconvenient Truth: Truth to Power, directed by Bonni Cohen (and Jon Shenk), as well as 11/8/16, the nationwide election day documentary that was filmed by a consortium of 18 filmmakers, seven of whom are women.

Also, a majority of the few studio films that are directed by women tend to be comedies or light dramas, which are not the types of films that often get nominated for Academy Awards.

A number of films over the past several years that were directed by women were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, a category which allows for more nominees.

Disobedience is directed by acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, of the films The Sacred Family, Christmas, The Year of the Tiger, and Gloria previously, plus Oscar - nominated A Fantastic Woman most recently.

The Tenth Anniversary of AFI?s 100 Greatest Movies List got us to thinking, especially when we noticed that of 400 films nominated for AFI?s list, only 4.5 were directed by women.

The festival world is far ahead of the industry (only 8 of last year's top 100 films at the box office were directed by women) and the Academy Awards (where Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman ever nominated for best director this year).

20 actors were nominated for leading and supporting roles, but only four of the performers were recognized for films written or directed by women - Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird and Octavia Spencer and Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water.

(One additional note on Best Supporting Actress to segue into surprises: Mary J. Blige is not only the first person ever nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song in the same year, but the first actor Oscar - nominated for a film directed by a woman of color, Mudbound's Dee Rees.)

Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier has already proven herself a force in films, becoming the first — and so far only — woman to direct two films nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (she wrote and directed 2006's After the Wedding and 2010's In a Better World).