A look back at women filmmakers at the Academy Awards. Coralie Fargeat earned her spot in the history books with her best director Oscar nomination this year for her film "The Substance." But how ...

Santi Visalli/Getty At the 49th annual Academy Awards, Italian filmmaker Wertmüller was the very first woman nominated for Best Director, for her World War II movie Seven Beauties.

The Oscars are a coveted award but some of Hollywood's greatest and most deserving directors have never won the prestigious award.

The Oscars 2025 Best Director race has some key Hollywood filmmakers in the mix. Here's who we predict will be nominated and win the Academy Award.

The 2025 Academy Awards concluded Sunday with Anora capturing five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Sean Baker) and Best Actress (Mikey Madison), in a star-studded ceremony hosted by ...

Christopher Nolan, the auteur behind such classic films as The Dark Knight, Memento, Inception and Dunkirk, won the Academy Award for Best Director on Sunday night for his latest masterpiece ...

Sean Baker has won best director at the Oscars for “Anora,” the story of a Brooklyn exotic dancer who marries the impetuous son of a Russian oligarch.

Academy Award voters love actors who take on historical figures, much like last year's best actor award winner. Cillian Murphy won the Oscar for best actor for his role as theoretical physicist J ...

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“Anora” won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards, closing out a fairy-tale Oscars night for Sean Baker’s raw and irreverent tale of a Brooklyn sex worker. “The Brutalist,” “Wicked ...

Kathryn Bigelow, winner of Best Director award for "The Hurt Locker," poses in the press room at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, March 7, 2010, in Hollywood, Calif.

97th Academy Awards - Show Quentin Tarantino, left, presents the award for best director to Sean Baker for "Anora" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.