Hollywood’s Female Trouble: Part 2, The Directors
by Xaque Gruber
In the 84-year history of the Academy Awards, only four women have been nominated for Best Director. Only four! And only one (Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker) has won. So how many female director members are there in the Director’s Guild of America? I called the DGA, and they confirmed the number as 13.5 percent, a number on the ascent I am told, but obviously still low. Even with Bigelow’s Oscar win in 2009, why are the statistics for female directors (in both film and television) less than golden?
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