No women nominated for Best Director at this year’s Academy Awards

Only five female directors have been nominated a total of five times for the Academy Award for Best Director, and only one – Kathryn Bigelow – has won. (Image Courtesy: The Hill).

Even though Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019) was nominated for Best Picture as well as Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s Academy Awards, the filmmaker herself was not nominated for Best Director, nor were any other women, according to The Hill. 2020 marks the third year in a row no women have been nominated in the category, despite the fact that more than ten percent of the top films in 2019 were directed by women, the most in more than a decade. Women of color are even more underrepresented; out of two hundred seventy-three nominations over the last thirteen years at the Golden Globes, Oscars, Directors Guild of America, and Critics’ Choice Awards, Ava DuVernay was the only female director of color to be nominated.

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