Luckily, we can say that some women have been nominated for (and even took home) the Best Director Oscar, and even for films that became Best Picture Oscar winners.

Winning the Academy Award for best picture requires succeeding through a combination of factors. Winning the Academy Award for best director, though, is the Academy’s way of pointing directly at ...

Throughout the 97-year history of the Academy Awards, only seven women have been nominated for the Oscar for Best Director.

It's that time of year again. After months of campaigning and voting amid serious fan debates, the 2025 Oscars nominations are in – and now it's time to predict who will take home an Academy ...

All five Academy Award nominees for Best Director on Thursday — Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, Sean Baker for Anora, Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, James Mangold for A Complete Unknown, and ...

Christopher Nolan, the auteur behind such classic films as The Dark Knight, Memento, Inception and Dunkirk, won the Academy Award for Best Director on Sunday night for his latest masterpiece ...

Coralie Fargeat was nominated for the best directing Academy Award for "The Substance." She's only the ninth woman to be nominated.

Academy Award voters love actors who take on historical figures, much like last year's best actor award winner. Cillian Murphy won the Oscar for best actor for his role as theoretical physicist J ...

Kathryn Bigelow, winner of Best Director award for "The Hurt Locker," poses in the press room at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, March 7, 2010, in Hollywood, Calif.

Coralie Fargeat accepts the award for best original screenplay for "The Substance" during the 30th Critics Choice Awards on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP ...