lina wertmüller was the first woman to be nominated for best director at the academy awards.
lina wertmüller was the first woman to be nominated for best director at the academy awards.
who was the first woman to be nominated for best director at the academy awards?
lina wertmüller
this year's academy awards is also notable for the first ever female nominee for best director, lina wertmüller for "seven beauties". barbra streisand received her second academy award, composing music for the love theme "evergreen", the first woman to be honored as a composer, and as of the 90th academy awards, the only person to win academy awards for both acting and songwriting.









































no honorary awards were given this year.
49th academy awards
in the 2013 academy awards, 140 men were nominated for an award, but only 35 women were nominated. no woman was nominated for directing, cinematography, film editing, writing (original screenplay), or original score that year. since the academy awards began in 1929, only seven women producers have won the best picture category (all of whom were co-producers with men), and only eight women have been nominated for best original screenplay. lina wertmuller (1976), jane campion (1994), sofia coppola (2004), and kathryn bigelow (2012) were the only four women to be nominated for best director, with bigelow being the first woman to win for her film "the hurt locker". 77% of the academy awards' voters are male.
gender inequality