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10 Top Female Directors

GalTime | Posted 05.17.2013 | Women
GalTime

To honor female filmmakers everywhere who are slowly but surely carving out a name for themselves in the film world, here's a list of the top 10 female directors who refuse to believe Hollywood is a man's world.

LOOK: This Is How Few Women Directors There Are In Hollywood

The Huffington Post | Christina Huffington | Posted 04.20.2013 | Women

When Kathryn Bigelow failed to get a Best Director nomination for Zero Dark Thirty at this year's Academy Awards, some commentators asked if it was be...

Eleazar David Melendez

Morgan Stanley Wouldn't Invest In Itself Under New Strategy

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleazar David Melendez | Posted 03.21.2013 | Business

Investment giant Morgan Stanley is offering clients a new portfolio option that will only invest in companies with at least three female directors, in...

This Is What Directors Look Like (Or at Least 9% of Them)

Maddy Lederman | Posted 04.17.2013 | Entertainment
Maddy Lederman

In a liberal industry like entertainment, women are still far behind their male counterparts.

Women Directors Help Companies Gain Competitive Edge

Marilyn Nagel | Posted 03.09.2013 | Business
Marilyn Nagel

After years of campaigning for more gender-diverse corporate boards, ION published its Ninth Annual Status Report on Women Directors and Executive Officers of Public Companies. The good news? We're making progress, and have several thriving companies that lead by example.

Hoberman: Ten Filmmakers That Will Define Cinema's Next Decade

ARTINFO | Posted 02.11.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

Here are 10 mid-career film directors, all in their 40s or younger. Some are still obscure, others are pretty famous -- but only a few are as well-known as they deserve to be.

Black Women Directors at the Helm

Yvonna Russell | Posted 01.29.2013 | Black Voices
Yvonna Russell

We can all imagine the determination it took to kick through the glass ceiling for these talented women of color film directors.

Really Now? List Of Top 50 Films Of The 90's Has No Women Directors

Indiewire | Posted 10.12.2012 | Women

The A.V. Club recently published a three-part series listing their top 50 films from the '90s. As expected the likes of Tarantino, Scorsese, Fincher a...

The Job I Didn't Get Because I'm A Woman

Posted 10.05.2012 | Women

By Barbara Stepanksy I have little story I’d like to tell about the Hollywood Glass Ceiling. I frequently talk with my director girlfriends ab...

Long Way Left To Go: Women Directors Face Uphill Battle in Hollywood

Turnstyle | Posted 11.05.2012 | Women
Turnstyle

By: Amanda Mae Meyncke Part one of a three part series about the uphill battle women directors face in Hollywood. Check out parts two and three at Tu...

Nora Was Us

Lisa Belkin | Posted 08.26.2012 | Women
Lisa Belkin

We felt Nora Ephron knew us, not because she was one of us, but because she was so much more, a distillation of what women felt but didn't yet know, or would have said if they'd been clever enough. The quips the rest of us wished we'd made, but didn't think of until the moment had passed? Ephron gave us voice.

Yes We Cannes?

Joanna Rothkopf | Posted 04.28.2012 | Entertainment
Joanna Rothkopf

In just a few weeks, 22 worthy directors of many shapes and sizes will descend upon the beach town to bask in le soleil and the glory of their artistic achievements at the Cannes film festival. Not one film by a woman was nominated.

Joe Satran

No Movies With Female Directors To Compete At Cannes 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 05.17.2012 | Entertainment

With the international media assembled in Paris Thursday to find out which movies made the cut for this year's prestigious Festival du Cannes, festiva...

Hollywood's Female Trouble: Part 2, The Directors

Xaque Gruber | Posted 06.04.2012 | Entertainment
Xaque Gruber

Even with Bigelow's Oscar win in 2009, why are the statistics for female directors (in both film and television) less than golden?

What Do Directors Think When People Make a Torrent for Their Movie?

Quora | Posted 02.22.2012 | Entertainment
Quora

The Motion Picture Association of America has never written me a paycheck for anything. They're not backing my picture. These are not nice guys. They are not in this business to help filmmakers at all.

Oscar Season Is Here: So We Ask "Does Gender Matter?"

Andrew Shapter | Posted 01.28.2012 | Entertainment
Andrew Shapter

It's true there's no business like show business. Yet film and television productions embody cultural art forms and also represent a team sport. Story...

And the Oscar Goes to... a Man: Gender Bias at the Top

Joan Williams | Posted 03.28.2012 | Entertainment
Joan Williams

The myth of the meritocracy reigns supreme. But the top of the top is still dominated by men, in Hollywood and elsewhere -- and what's worse, progress may be stalling across the board.

An English Mom in Hollywood

Julie Anne Robinson | Posted 03.19.2012 | Los Angeles
Julie Anne Robinson

We stayed at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel just as they were getting ready for the Oscars. In order to get out of the hotel, we had to wheel Thomas down the red carpet. The situation was completely bizarre, and -- I now realize -- very L.A.

Tearing Down the Celluloid Ceiling

K. Sujata | Posted 11.22.2011 | Chicago
K. Sujata

What Hollywood and Chicago have in common: when women are leaders, great things happen -- but women don't get to lead nearly often enough.

In Bollywood, Female Directors Find New Respect

The New York Times | Posted 11.07.2011 | Women

The director Zoya Akhtar laughs as she tells the story of the Steadicam operator who worked on her first film, “Luck by Chance.” He had earlier wo...

'The Smurf Ghetto': Hollywood's New Glass Ceiling For Female Directors

Moviefone | Posted 10.31.2011 | Women

What's the top-grossing film directed by a woman? (Hint: It's not 'Big' or 'You've Got Mail' or 'It's Complicated,' and it's certainly not 'The Hurt L...

Women in Entertainment

Christine Bork | Posted 08.29.2011 | Chicago
Christine Bork

The summer movie season is upon us, and while there is an increase this year in the number of films geared toward women in lead roles, I feel disappointed about the lack of diversity in roles for women.

Boardroom Diversity Means Better Business

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 07.04.2011 | Business
Lucy P. Marcus

In the life sciences and beyond, diversity makes business sense and social sense, and every one of us has an interest in making sure that diversity is put on the agenda.

Beyond Optics: Why Board Diversity Really Matters

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lucy P. Marcus

Clearly, it looks odd these days for a board to be comprised of only white men, but does diversity make a difference in real economic terms? Does it actually affect the bottom line?

Women In Hollywood - Are The Numbers Changing?

Elizabeth M. Daley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Elizabeth M. Daley

On March 7 of this year, Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director for her remarkable helming of The Hurt Locker. The well-deserved hono...