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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Academy_Award_for_BestAcademy Award for Best Production Design - Wikipedia

    The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. [1] This change resulted from the Art Directors' branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) being ...

  2. www.newsweek.com › oscars-women-directors-winnerAll the Women Nominated for Best Director at the Oscars

    • 1976 - Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties. It took 48 years for the Academy to nominate its first female director. Though women have been directing since at least 1896 (when the French filmmaker Alice Guy started making films) Hollywood did not let many women make movies.
    • 1993 - Jane Campion for The Piano. The next female director nominated would come 17 years later. Again, it would not be an American director nominated but the New Zealand-born Jane Campion.
    • 2003 - Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation. A decade later, the first American woman director was nominated, 75 years into Oscars history, when Sofia Coppola got a nod for her Lost in Translation, which sees Scarlet Johansson's young woman bond with Bill Murray's aging actor in Tokyo.
    • 2009 - Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker. The first woman won Best Director, meanwhile, 81 years into Oscars history, as Kathryn Bigelow surprised many by defeating Avatar, directed by her ex-husband James Cameron, to both Best Picture and Best Director.

  3. womenandhollywood.com › guest-post-the-productionGuest Post: The Production Designer Gender Gap | Women and ...

    Four women have won the award in the Oscars’ 89-year history (including Catherine Martin, who has won twice for her work on her husband’s films). Since the first woman was finally nominated (and won) in 1983 — Ana Asp for “Fanny and Alexander” — there have been 170 Production Design nominees, and of those only 16 percent have been ...

  4. www.studiobinder.com › blog › academy-award-for-bestAcademy Award for Best Production Design — Winners Ranked

    Apr 18, 2021 · Academy Award for Production Design • Minimalist Production Design in ‘Julius Caesar’. Cedric Gibbons won more Academy Awards for Best Production Design than any other production designer in history. For his work on Julius Caesar, Gibbons won his 10th of 11 Oscars. Check out the minimalist production design in Julius Caesar this next clip.

  5. screenrant.com › oscars-best-director-femaleAll 7 Female Directors Nominated For The Best Director Oscar ...

    Jan 1, 2024 · The Best Director category is notorious for snubbing women, a resolution anyone could come to just by looking at the past 95 awards ceremonies. However, some have slipped through the cracks and received praise for their filmmaking efforts, and one woman has even been nominated twice, 29 years apart. The nominees for the upcoming 96th Academy ...

  6. variety.com › lists › best-picture-women-directedAll Oscars Best Picture Nominated Movies Directed by Women

    Feb 14, 2024 · Five years have included two films directed by women among the best picture nominees: 2009, 2010, 2020, 2021 and 2023. Women also produced seven of the 10 nominated movies. Those include Stone ...

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  8. www.indiewire.com › awards › industryOscars: Jane Campion First Woman Nominated Twice for Best ...

    Feb 8, 2022 · In the Academy Awards’ 94-year history, only seven women have ever been nominated for Best Director alongside Campion: Lina Wertmüller (1976′s “Seven Beauties”), Sofia Coppola (2003′s ...