Academy Awards

...to pay attention to young women. FINALLY." In 2003, Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation screened at the Toronto Film Festival and ended up getting a best director Oscar nomination. As the Times' Michael Cieply notes: "She is one of...

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...in 2000. Were she to land an Oscar nod, she would be only the fourth woman to do so after Lina Wertmuller ("Seven Beauties," 1976); Jane Campion ("The Piano," 1993); and Sofia Coppola ("Lost in Translation," 2003). Campion and...

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...for directing a feature film 1976 Harlan County, U.S.A.; director: Barbara Kopple; Academy Award winner for best documentary feature; selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry 1978 Die allseitig reduzierte...

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...Sofia Coppola's for 2003's "Lost in Translation." Three women in the Academy Awards' 82-year history doesn't sound to Campion as if the movie industry should be patting itself on the back. "That's pretty slow progress," she said during a...

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She explains, "In 80 years, only three women have ever been nominated for a Best Director Oscar - Lina Wertmueller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola - and only two men of colour - John Singleton and Ang Lee, who won for Brokeback Mountain.

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...question deserves an answer, but unless we all ask, wea��ll never get one." And now Huttner hopes her campaign prompts Oscar bosses to reconsider their rules. She explains, "In 80 years, only three women have ever been nominated for a...

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No woman has ever won the Academy Award for Best Director and only three have been nominated: Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties in 1976, Campion with The Piano in 1993 and Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation in 2003. Campion...

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...movies starring Giancarlo Giannini. The last, and best-received of these, was 1975's Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Sette Bellezze), which earned 4 Academy Award nominations and was an international hit. Wertmuller was the first woman to...

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...four screenwriters (including the woman who would later famously break through the glass ceiling of the Best Director Oscar category, Lina Wertmuller), all (to varying degrees) seemingly bent on turning a routine mafia revenge potboiler into...

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