In 2014, she also became the first black female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her work on Selma. Most recently, DuVernay directed A Wrinkle in Time, a Disney film centered ...

She made film history in 2019 when her debut feature film “Atlantics” (2019) became the first movie from a Black female director to compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film ...

The report found that, out of the 112 directors who were behind the top 100 movies of 2024, 13.4% of them (15 people) were women. That represented a slight uptick from 2023, when 12.1% of the ...

Victoria Mahoney has been hired as a director on the next film ... to direct a film with a budget of more than $100million. “A black woman directing stories in a galaxy far, far away.” ...

If you feel there hasn’t been a noticeable difference in the number of films by Black directors over ... the needle barely moved for women and non-white directors in 2024. The study, per the ...