In 100 years of the Oscars, Justine Triet is the 8th woman nominated for Best Director

On March 10th, when the 96th award ceremony of the Oscar, Justine Triet could win the Oscar for Best Director for Anatomy of a Fallwhich gained prominence last year by winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film tells the story of a writer suspected of having killed her own husband and pretending to Justine Triet the third woman to win the grand prize in the history of the French film festival. Before her, just Jane Campionwith The Piano, in 1993; It is Julia Ducournauwith Titanein 2021, had been winners.

Now, the production has led the filmmaker to become the 8th woman, in almost a hundred years of the Oscar’s existence, to be nominated in the Best Director category, and, to date, only three of them have taken home the statuette. Next, the Rolling Stone Brazil remembers the women who made history at the biggest cinema awards:

Lina Wertmüller, the first nominee

The first nomination of a woman in the Best Director category at the Oscars only took place in the 49th edition, almost half a century after the awards began. The precursor was the Italian Lina Wertmüllerby the film Pasqualino Seven Beautiesfrom 1975.

Despite the historic indication, women’s victory would still take many years to happen. In that year’s edition, Wertmüller lost the golden statuette to John G. Avildsen (1193-2017), for his work on Rocky: A Fighter (1976), the first feature in what would become a major franchise starring Sylvester Stallone.

Even with Lina Wertmüller nominated in 1977, it was only in 1994 that another woman was remembered in the Best Director category at the Oscars. In this ocasion, Jane Campion competed for the golden statuette for The Piano (1993) and, like its predecessor, it did not win the award, which went to Steven Spielberg per Schindler’s List (1993).

A decade after the appointment of Campionit was time to Sofia Coppola appear among the Oscar nominees for Best Director for his second feature, Encounters and Mismatches (2003), starring Bill Murray It is Scarlett Johansson. She didn’t win and, despite being one of the most prestigious directors in Hollywood, she hasn’t been nominated in the category again to this day.

Kathryn Bigelow, the first winner

In 2010, at the 82nd edition of the Oscars, the first victory for a woman in the category finally came. The owner of the feat was Kathryn Bigelowper War on Terror (2008), which also became the first film directed by a woman to win Best Picture in Oscar history.

In 2018, Greta Gerwig became the 5th woman to nominate for the Oscar for Best Director for Lady Bird: Time to Fly (2017). However, it was only in 2021 that Chloe Zhao became the second woman to win the Best Director category, with Nomadland (2020).

She made history by becoming the first non-white woman to win the category and her film led her to repeat the feat of Bigelow a decade earlier, when it won the statuette for Best Film, the most prestigious Oscar award.

The year 2021 was even more special because, for the first time in the history of the awards, a woman was not competing alone in the Best Director category: in addition to Chloe Zhaothe debutant Emerald Fennell had also been nominated by Beautiful Revenge (2020).

In 2022, more historic achievements: Jane Campion – last filmmaker nominated before Justine Triet – won the Best Director award for Attack of the Dogs (2021) and became the first woman to win the statuette twice, in addition to contributing to the first consecutive victory for women in the category.

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