Cinema in 100 years of Oscar, Coralie Fargeat is only the 9th woman nominated for best direction

This Sunday, March 2, when the 97th Awards Ceremony of the Oscar, CORALIE FARGEAT can take the Oscar for best direction for The substancelong starring Demi Moore (Indecent proposal) and Margaret Qualley (Types of kindness).

The film narrates the decline of the career of Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), who agrees to try a mysterious drug to try to solve your problem. At first glance, the substance has extraordinary properties, being able to replicate cells and temporarily generate a rejuvenated and improved version of it, in the form of Sue (Margaret Qualley). However, the girl soon begins to want to live her life, causing problems for Elisabeth.

This is the first indication of CORALIE FARGEAT To the category, and makes it only the 9th woman to be nominated for the best direction in almost 100 years of Oscar existence. Also, so far, only three of the nominees have taken the statuette home. Then the Rolling Stone Brazil Remember the women who made history in the biggest awards in cinema:

Lina Wertmüller, the first indicated

The first indication of a woman to the category of best direction in the Oscar only took place in the 49th edition, almost half a century after the beginning of the award. The precursor was the Italian Lina Wertmüllerfor the movie Pasqualino Seven Beauties1975.

Despite the historical nomination, the women’s victory would still take many years to happen. In that year’s edition, Wertmüller lost the gold statuette to John G. Avildsen (1193-2017), for their work in Rocky: A fighter (1976), the first feature of what would become a large franchise starring Sylvester Stallone.

Even with Lina Wertmüller nominated in 1977, it was not until 1994 that another woman was remembered in the best direction category in the Oscars. At the time, Jane Campion competed for the gold statuette for The piano (1993) and, like its predecessor, did not take to the prize, which went to Steven Spielberg put Schindler’s list (1993).

A decade after the indication of Campionit was the turn of Sofia Coppola appear among the Oscar nominees for best direction for their second feature, Encounters and mismatches (2003), starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. She did not win and, even though she was one of the most prestigious directors in Hollywood, has not been nominated again to the category to this day.

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Kathryn Bigelow, the first winner

In 2010, at the 82nd edition of Oscar, finally came the first victory of a woman in the category. The owner of the deed was Kathryn Bigelowby Terror (2008), who also became the first film directed by a woman winning the best film category in Oscar history.

In 2018, Greta Gerwig became the 5th woman to compete for the Oscar for best direction for Lady Bird: The Time to Fly (2017). However, it was only in 2021 that Chloé Zhao became the second woman to overcome the category of best direction, with Nomadland (2020).

She made history by becoming the first non-white woman to conquer the category and her film led her to repeat the achievement of Biletic A decade earlier, by winning the best film statuette, the most prestigious Oscar award.

The year 2021 was even more special because, for the first time in the history of the award, a woman did not compete alone to the category of best direction: besides Chloé Zhaothe debutant Emerald Fennell had also been indicated by Beautiful revenge (2020).

In 2022, more historical feats: Jane Campion won the best direction award for Dog -attack (2021) and became the first woman to win the statuette twice, and contributed to the first consecutive victory of women in the category.

Most recent indication

The last indication of a woman to the best direction category was to Justine Trietby Anatomy of a fallwhich gained prominence in the largest cinema awards by beating the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.

The film tells the story of a suspected writer of killing her husband, and made Justine Triet The third woman to win the big prize in the history of the French Film Festival. Before her, just Jane Campionwith The pianoin 1993; and Julia Ducournauwith TitaneIn 2021, they had been winning. Triethowever, did not overcome the Oscar.

Rolling Stone Brazil Cinema Special

The cinema is the subject of the new special printed of the Rolling Stone Brazil. In a magazine dedicated to seventh art lovers, we interviewed Francis Ford Coppolawhich reaches 85 years amid the release of his new movie, Megalópolisbold and millionaire endeavor financed by himself.

Unshable in the face of controversial reactions to the novelty, which took about 40 years to get out of paper, the filmmaker defends the boldness of being creative of the film industry and opens, in good Portuguese, the influence of Brazil on his new movie: “Joy”.

The special also brings conversations with Walter Salles, FERNANDA TORRES and Selton Mello on I’m still herea chat about soundtracks with the conductor João Carlos Martinsan exclusive list of the 100 best films in history (50 nationals, 50 international), another list of the 101 largest trails in the history of cinema, one warm for the Oscar 2025 and the radar of globe launches, Globo Filmes, O2 Play and O2 movies for the coming months.

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