Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male
director would have gone on to direct four of five
features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned
time that a female comic book
feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of
Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two
directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.