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Women in the Chair updated 3.15.10
Below, please find a list of filmmakers from around the world who are women, posted in honor of March being "Women’s History Month" and Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman ever to win an Academy Award for “Best Director."
WOMEN FILMMAKERS WORLDWIDE
1896-2010
Gilda de Abreu
Perry Miller Adato
Anita W. Addison
Carine Adler
Arantxa Aguirre
Yasmin Ahmad
Marianne Ahrne
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Peggy Ahwesh
Chantal Akerman
Barbara Albert
Karin Albou
Lexi Alexander
Stephanie Allain
Suzana Amaral
Tata Amaral
Alison Anders
Jane Anderson
Antouanneta Angelidi
Maya Angelou
Eileen Anipare
Annette Apon
Shamim Ara
Louise Archambault
Francesca Archibugi
Jane Arden
Asia Argento
Gillian Armstrong
Andrea Arnold
Karen Arthur
Natasha Arthy
Dorothy Arzner
Dinara Asanova
Martina Attile
Shona Auerbach
Jacqueline Audry
Shona Auerbach
Beth B.
Jamie Babbit
Paule Baillargeon
Josiane Balasko
Anne Bancroft
Rakhshan Bani-Etemaad
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Neema Barnette
Diana Barrie
Drew Barrymore
Sophie Barthes
Michal Bat Adam
Joy Batchelor
Kathy Bates
Jordan Bayne
Gabrielle Beaumont
Zoe Beloff
Maria Luisa Bemberg
Jessica Bendinger
Yamina Benguigui
Sadie Benning
Emmanuelle Bercot
Zaida Bergroth
Dori Berinstein
Juliet Berto
Troy Beyer
Susanne Bier
Kathryn Bigelow
Anna Biller
Patricia Birch
Antonia Bird
Jane Birkin
Simone Bitton
Maureen Blackwood
Laís Bodanzky
Virginia Bogert
Icíar Bollaín
Lizzie Borden
Shonali Bose
Muriel Box
Anja Breien
Catherine Breillat
Valerie Breiman
Zabou Breitman
Zana Briski
Tricia Brock
Katrina Holden Bronson
Katherine Brooks
Hilary Brougher
Jutta Bruckner
Mary Ellen Bute
Dominique Cabrera
Eliane Caffé
Sophie Calle
Jane Campion
Carla Camurati
Kat Candler
Saara Cantell
Corinne Cantrill
Dominique Cardona (aka Laurie Colbert)
Niki Caro
Ana Carolina
Ditsi Carolino
Alana Cash
Zoe Cassavetes
Liliana Cavani
Gurinder Chadha
Lina Chamie
Tanuja Chandra
Sylvia Chang
Joan Chen
Ayoka Chenzira
Mabel Cheung
Abigail Child
Lisa Cholodenko
Joyce Chopra
Zero Chou
Christine Choy
Věra Chytilová
Lisa Cholodenko
Michelle Citron
Shirley Clarke
Stacey Cochran
Leslie Cockburn
Essie Coffey
Isabel Coixet
Giada Colagrande
Kathleen Collins
Cristina Comencini
Martha Coolidge
Nicole Conn
Sopfa Coppola
Catherine Corsini
Michèle Cournoyer
Jill Craigie
Emma-Kate Croghan
Emmanuelle Cuau
Grace Cunard
Holly Dale
Joan Darling
Julie Dash
Byambasuren Davaa
Tamra Davis
Zeinabu Irene Davis
Gilda de Abreu
Camille de Casabianca
Régine Deforges
Storm de Hirsch
Donna Deitch
Julie Delpy
Paule Delsol
Anne de Marcken
Maria de Medeiros
Claire Denis
Betse De Paula
Maya Deren
Virginie Despentes
Catharina Deus
Marina de Van
Claire Devers
Katherine Dieckmann
Sr. Dominic Dipio
Assia Djebar
Nana Djordjadze
Sara Driver
Harriet Dodge
Dörris Dörrie
Isabelle Doval
Elissa Down
Martin Doyen
Germaine Dulac
Cheryl Dunye
Marguerite Duras
Tracey Edmonds
Christine Edzard
Judit Elek
Ingemo Engstrom
Ildikó Enyedi
Nora Ephron
Marie Epstein
Kim Evans
Heidi Ewing
Valie Export
Safi Faye
Regina Fanta-Nacro
Michele Farinola
Valerie Faris
Eléonore Faucher
Alicia Felberbaum
Marcela Fernandez Violante
Forugh Farrokhzad
Pascale Ferran
Mary Field
Sally Field
Martha Fiennes
Sophie Fiennes
Sophie Fillières
Roberta Findlay
Holly Fisher
Jane Fleming
Anne Fletcher
Anne Fontaine
Sadaf Foroughi
Jodie Foster
Hollis Frampton
Andrea Fraser
Mimi Freedman
Marylin Freeman
Su Friedrich
Sonia Fritz
Laura Gabbert
Eva Le Gallienne
Nisha Ganatra
Nicole Garcia
Gene Gauntier
Julie Gavras
Sarah Gavron
Dyana Gaye
Leah Gilliam
Lillian Gish
Lesli Linka Glatter
Delphine Gleize
Elinor Glyn
Jill Godmilow
Lana Gogoberidze
Sara Gomez
Bette Gordon
Dennie Gordon
Marleen Gorris
Rachel Grady
Lee Grant
Amy Greenfield
Maggie Greenwald
Marion Grierson
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Valérie Guignabodet
Sonali Gulati
Iris Gusner
Alice Guy-Blaché
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Randa Haines
Mira Hamermesh
Lisa Gay Hamilton
Barbara Hammer
Sanaa Hamri
Marion Hänsel
Leslie Harris
Mary Harron
Catherine Hardwicke
Salma Hayek
Anne Heche
Amy Heckerling
Chris Hegedus
Birgit Hein
Hanna Henning
Astrid Henning-Jensen
Sachiko Hidari
Cheryl Hines
Ivy Ho
Anna Hofman-Uddgren
Agnieszka Holland
Nicole Holofcener
Solveig Hoogenstein
Dianne Houston
Bronwen Hughes
Faith Hubley
Ann Hui
Danièle Huillet
Bonnie Hunt
Claire Hunt (aka Kim Longinotto)
Courtney Hunt
Helen Hunt
Gale Anne Hurd
Anjelica Huston
Diana Lee Inosanto
Bodil Ipsen
Debbie Isitt
Julia Crawford Ivers
Mehreen Jabbar
Sarah Jacobson
Jeong Jae-eun
Wonda Jakubowska
Agnès Jaoui
Christine Jeffs
Patty Jenkins
Tamara Jenkins
Vicky Jenson
Liu Jiayin
Xiao Jiang
Xu Jinglei
Scarlett Johannson
Lana Jokel
G. B. Jones
Hella Joof
Suma Josson
Miranda July
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Betty Kaplan
Deborah Kaplan
Nelly Kaplan
Prema Karanth
Niki Karimi
Anna Karina
Nicole Kassell
Naomi Kawase
Diane Keaton
Dorota Kędzierzawska
Marjorie Keller
Sarah Kernochan
Joanna Kerns
Farah Khan
Shaan Khattau
Callie Khouri
Beeban Kidron
So Yong Kim
Karen Kluge
Indu Krishnan
Sandra Kogut
Ana Kokkinos
Barbara Kopple
Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Ellen Kuras
Diane Kurys
Karyn Kusama
Julia Kwan
Nadine Labaki
Jeanne Labrune
Christine Lahti
Mary Lambert
Micheline Lanctôt
Matilde Landeta
Samantha Lang
Yelena Lanskaya
Alile Sharon Larkin
Clara Law
Arantxa Lazcano
Kalpana Lazmi
Caroline Leaf
Mimi Leder
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Suzanne Lemaître
Valérie Lemercier
Kasi Lemmons
Nanouk Leopold
Frieda Liappa
Nnegest Likké
Caroline Link
Claudia Llosa
Phyllida Lloyd
Sondra Locke
Barbara Loden
Julia Loktev
Joan Long
Kim Longinotto
Julie Lopes-Curval
Issa Lopez
Nnegest Likké
Caroline Link
Marion Lipschutz
Lynne Littman
Jennie Livingston
Ma Liwen
Emma Luchini
Kátia Lund
Ida Lupino
Noémie Lvovsky
Lottie Lyell
Jennifer Lynch
Angelina Maccarone
Hettie MacDonald
Alison Maclean
Cleo Madison
Madonna
Evelyn Cindy Magara
Maria Maggenti
Sharon Maguire
Maïwenn (aka Maïwenn Le Besco)
Hana Makhmalbaf
Marzieh Makhmalbaf
Samira Makhmalbaf
Sarah Maldoror
Marilu Mallet
Laura Mañá
Babette Mangolte
Suhasini Maniratnam
Sophie Marceau
Frances Marion
Eisha Marjara
Tonia Marketaki
Havana Marking
Penny Marshall
Tonie Marshall
Lucrecia Martel
Darnell Martin
Laetitia Masson
Elaine May
Melanie Mayron
Patricia Mazuy
Barbara McCullough
Paulette McDonagh
Sheila McLaughlin
Carolyn McMaster
Lucille McVey Drew
Nancy Meckler
Jeanine Meerapfel
Deepa Mehta
Vijaya Mehta
Hu Mei
Ursula Meier
Susan Meiselas
Kay Mellor
Marie Menken
Agnès Merlet
Nancy Meyers
Márta Mészáros
Agnès Merlet
Leah Meyerhoff
Liu Miaomiao
Joan Micklin Silver
Anne-Marie Miéville
Elfi Mikesch
Laila Mikkelsen
Tahmineh Milani
Rebecca Miller
Sharron Miller
Trinh T. Min-ha
Pilar Miró
Merata Mita
Helke Misselwitz
Ariane Mnouchkine
Tracey Moffatt
Kaori Momoi
Florence Moncorgé-Gabin
Karen Moncrieff
Adriana Monti
Jocelyn Moorehouse
Jeanne Moreau
Yolande Moreau
Sarah Morris
Samantha Morton
Lúcia Murat
Kira Muratova
Pat Murphy
Anne Mungai
Musidora
Anna Muylaert
Fanta Régina Nacro
Phyllis Nagy
Mira Nair
Terre Nash
Gunvor Nelson
Laura Neri
Shirin Neshat
Kika Nicolela
Vijaya Nirmala
Tuija-Maija Niskanen
Elvira Notari
Maria Novaro
Alanis Obomsawin
Alice O’Fredericks
Jenni Olson
Gulshat Omarova
Yoko Ono
Ngozi Onwurah
Ulrike Ottinger
Phoebe Owens
Reneta Padovan
Euzhan Palcy
Marianna Palka
Sai Paranjpye
Ida May Park
Claire Parker
Pratibha Parmar
Christine Pascal
Barbara Peeters
Kimberly Peirce
Alexandra Pelosi
Claire Peploe
Cristina Perincioli
Rachel Perkins
Barbara Peters
Mary Pickford
Vanessa Place
Gaylene Preston
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Natalie Portman
Sarah Polley
Léa Pool
Leanne Pooley
Sally Potter
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Carrie Preston
Gaylene Preston
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Joanna Quinn
Yvonne Rainer
Lynne Ramsay
Cathy Randall
Mari Rantasila
Jackie Raynal
Carol Reed
Kelly Reichardt
Lotte Reiniger
Anja-Kristin Remmert
Amy Rice
Leni Riefenstahl
Pipilotti Rist
Dorothy Davenport Reid
Angela Robinson
Marta Rodriguez
Françoise Romand
Martha Rosier
Michèle Rosier
Stephanie Rothman
Brigitte Roüan
Mireia Roz
Patricia Rozema
Barbara Rubin
Pila Rusjan
Saara Saarela
Leontine Sagan
Djamila Sahraoui
Sherine Salama
Alicia Sams
Helke Sander
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Arlene Sanford
Sangeeta
Valeria Sarmiento
Megumi Sasaki
Shimako Sato
Marjane Satrapi
Nancy Savoca
Jasmila Sbanic
Angela Schanelec
Lone Scherfig
Suzanne Schiffman
Carolee Schneemann
Céline Sciamma
Cynthia Scott
Beverly Sebastion
Susan Seidelman
Aparna Sen
Coline Serreau
Adrienne Shelley
Lynn Shelton
Millicent Shelton
Larissa Shepitko
Cindy Sherman
Bonnie Sherr Klein
Nell Shipman
Cate Shortland
Esther Shub
Tong Shu Shuen
Mina Shum
Nandini Sikand
Claire Simon
Kari Skogland
Alison Snowden
Helena Solberg
Iuliia Solntseva
Frances-Anne Solomon
Susan Sontag
Lim Soon-rye
Penelope Spheeris
Jill Sprecher
Stella Stevens
Ruth Stonehouse
Lynne Stopkewich
Chick Strand
Barbara Streisand
Susan Streitfeld
Susan Stroman
Caroline Strubbe
Susanna Styron
Elisabeth Subrin
Sara Sugarman
Lee Suk-Gyung
Sabiha Sumar
Elizaveta Svilova
Rea Tajiri
Rachel Talalay
Shashwati Talukdar
Kinuyo Tanaka
Loveleen Tandan
Nadia Tass
Sam Taylor-Wood
Julie Taymor
Conny Templemen
Suzie Templeton
Joan Tewkesbury
Stella Theodoraki
Virginie Thevenet
Betty Thomas
Caroline Thompson
Daniele Thompson
Ingrid Thulin
Ondi Timoner
Loretta Todd
Fina Torres
Pimpaka Towira
Patrice Toye
Wendy Toye
Marie-Claude Treilhou
Monika Treut
Nadine Trintignant
Minh-ha Trinh T.
Fien Troch
Rose Troche
Liv Ullman
Sonia Valentín
Agnès Varda
Nia Vardalos
Dororthee Vandenberge
Paula van der Oest
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Jennifer Venditti
Sylvie Verheyde
Marion Vernoux
Sandrine Veysset
Teresa Villaverde
Claudia von Alemann
Katja von Garnier
Rosa von Praunheim
Margarethe von Trotta
Jürgen Vsych
Nancy Walker
Susan F. Walker
Sarah Watt
Lois Weber
Joyce Weiland
Claudia Weill
Lina Wertmüller
Anne Wheeler
Susanna White
Joyce Wieland
Margery Wilson
Alice Winocour
Doris Wishman
Katie Woods
Tizuka Yamazaki
Pamela Yates
Ruby Yang
Keren Yedaya
Ning Ying
So Yong Kim
Jessica Yu
Li Yu
Mai Zetterling
Nuanxin Zhang
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