Women scored their first Oscar win for best director when Kathryn Bigelow won for her 2009 film "The Hurt Locker" at the 82nd Academy Awards. In her acceptance speech, Bigelow called her win "the ...

Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan won the Academy Award for best director, his first Oscar ever, on Sunday night. “I have so many people to thank,” Nolan said during his acceptance speech.

Only nine women have been nominated a total of ten times (with three wins so far) in the Academy Awards' 97-year history. The Substance's Coralie Fargeat is the latest female Best Director nominee ...

Sean Baker, winner of the awards for best original screenplay, best film editing, best director, and best picture for "Anora," poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at ...

'Nomadland' director Chloe Zhao breaks Oscars tradition by winning Best Director at the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. ... Bigelow remained the only woman to have won the Best Director Oscar.

Campion did not win the Best Director award, but did win for Best Screenplay. (Fun fact: The film was a young Anna Paquin’s very first acting role, and she won an Academy Award for Best ...

Regardless of who wins the Academy Award for Best Director this year when the Oscars are presented on April 25, the winner will be a veteran filmmaker. There are no first-time nominees, so there ...

Although Lubitsch was a three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director for the films The Love Parade, The Patriot, and Heaven Can Wait, he failed to ever win a competitive Oscar.

Chloé Zhao has become only the second woman to ever win the Academy Award for best director, accepting the prize at the 2021 Oscars.. The award was presented by last year’s winner, Bong Joon Ho ...

Eight standout films are up for the highly coveted best picture award at the 93rd Academy Awards this Sunday.. Director Chloé Zhao's drama "Nomadland" has dominated the category thus far during ...

Fargeat became the 10th woman nominated for the best director Oscar thanks to her 2024 film "The Substance" at the 97th Academy Awards. If she wins, she'll become the fourth woman to win the honor.