Lina Wertmüller was an Italian filmmaker and the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for directing.Wertmüller directed her first film, “The Lizards,” in 1963.
She built her reputation over the 1960s and ‘70s as a risk-taker whose films defied genre conventions. Her best-known films were made in the 1970s, beginning with “The Seduction of Mimi” in 1972, which was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Her next film, “Love and Anarchy,” was also a Palme d’Or nominee, and 1975’s “Swept Away” won the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Top Foreign Film.
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