Women Directors Have Three Best Picture Nominees, Setting Oscar Record
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Women filmmakers hit a milestone with this year’s 2024 Oscar nominations. For the first time in history, three of the 10 movies nominated for best picture — Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Celine Song’s “Past Lives” — were directed by a female auteur, the most recognized in the Academy Awards’ 96-year history.
The other best picture nominees are: “American Fiction,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Oppehneimer,” “The Holdovers,” “Poor Things,” and “The Zone of Interest.” Before this year’s best picture nominees, 591 movies were nominated by the Academy.
Only four years have included two films directed by women among the best picture nominees: Lone Scherfig’s “The Hurt Locker” and Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” (2009), Lisa Cholodenko’s “The Kids Are All Right” and Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone” (2010), Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” and Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” (2020) and Siân Heder’s “CODA” and Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” (2021).
Bigelow, Zhao and Heder’s films went on to win best picture. In another milestone, producers and stars Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) and Margot Robbie (“Barbie”) became the second and third women recognized for best picture and acting in the same year.
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