The only woman to ever win an Academy Award for best director was was Kathryn.
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Kathryn Bigelow became the first and only woman to date (2012) to win the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker(2008).
The first woman to receive the Academy Award for Best Director was Kathryn Bigelow, who won the 2009 Oscar for helming that year's Best Picture winner, "The Hurt Locker."
Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003).
James Cameron won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1997 for directing "Titanic".
Steven Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.
Spielberg's first Oscar for Best Director was for the 1993 drama "Schindler's List." His second Best Director award was for "Saving Private Ryan" (1998).
The first woman to receive the Academy Award for Best Director was Kathryn Bigelow, who won the 2009 Oscar for helming that year's Best Picture winner, "The Hurt Locker."
Kathryn Bigelow won the 2009 Academy Award for "Best Director" for her work in "The Hurt Locker." She is the first woman to win the award.
Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003).
Lina Wertmuller
Before 1960 no Canadian director won an Academy Award for Best Director.
The Oscar for Best Director usually goes to the director of the Best Picture winner.
Martin Scorsese
Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. She won for The Hurt Locker(2009). She beat her ex-husband, James Cameron, who was nominated for Avatar.
James Cameron won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1997 for directing "Titanic".
Richard Attenborough won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Director in Ghandi (1982).
Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire") won the Academy Award for Best Director in 2008.
Bob Fosse