My Top Favorite Female Directors of 2016
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Kelly Fremon Craig is a writer and director from Whittier, California. She made her directorial debut with The Edge of Seventeen. James L. Brooks' Gracie Films acquired the project in 2012, and developed the screenplay with Fremon Craig. She graduated from UC Irvine with an English degree. Fremon Craig started out writing sketch comedy and spoken word poetry in college, then landed an internship in the film division of Immortal Entertainment, where she read her first film script and began to pursue screenwriting. Fremon Craig now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and young son.The Edge of Seventeen- Director
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Elizabeth Wood is known for White Girl (2016), Spiritual Crisis and Autopilot (2010). She has been married to Gabriel Nussbaum since 6 June 2009. They have two children.White Girl- Actress
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Andrea Arnold was born on 5 April 1961 in Dartford, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for American Honey (2016), Fish Tank (2009) and Red Road (2006).American Honey- Actress
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Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category, marked a breakthrough in her career. In 1980 she graduated as the best of her class from the College Lycée Français and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Warnock Hinkley Jr. attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie and the movie Taxi Driver (1976), in which Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, tried to shoot presidential candidate Palantine. Despite the fact that Jodie never took acting lessons, she received two Oscars before she was thirty years of age. She received her first award for her part as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).Money Monster- Producer
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Janet Grillo is a critically acclaimed filmmaker, Emmy Award winning Producer, and former Studio Executive. She directed the award winning Jack of the Red Hearts, wrote/directed/produced the critically acclaimed Fly Away, Executive Produced the Emmy Award winning HBO documentary, Autism: The Musical, and oversaw the cult classic House Party series, when a creative executive at New Line Cinema. She is a full time Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Institute of Film and TelevisionJack of the Red Hearts- Director
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Patricia Riggen was born on 2 June 1970 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She is a director and producer, known for The 33 (2015), La milpa (2002) and Under the Same Moon (2007). She is married to Checco Varese. They have one child.Miracles of Heaven- Writer
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Sian Heder was born on 23 June 1977 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for CODA (2021), Orange Is the New Black (2013) and Little America (2020). She is married to David Newsom. They have two children.Tallulah- Director
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Sharon Maguire was born on 28 November 1960 in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales, UK. She is a director and producer, known for Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Incendiary (2008).Bridget Jones's Baby- Producer
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Lorene Scafaria was born on 1 May 1978 in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Hustlers (2019), Coherence (2013) and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012).The Meddler- Director
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Thea Sharrock is known for Me Before You (2016), Wicked Little Letters (2023) and The Hollow Crown (2012).Me Before You- Director
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Elizabeth (Liz) Allen Rosenbaum is an Emmy Award-winning and DGA Award-nominated director and producer. She is known for "Purple Hearts" starring Sofia Carson, which became the biggest movie opening for Netflix in 2022, Emmy award-winning original musical ""Sneakerella for Disney Plus, and "Ramona and Beezus" for 20th Century Fox, starring Selena Gomez, Joey King and Sandra Oh.
At the helm of over 50 hours of content for major networks and studios, Liz has directed hit shows such as "Dead to Me," "Empire," Gossip Girl," "Why Women Kill," "The Exorcist," "All American," "The Resident," and "Vampire Diaries." She has directed and produced six television pilots including BH90210 (CBS/Fox), Spinning Out (Netflix), Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (Warner Horizon/ Freeform), The Kicks (Amazon), Relationship Status (Go-90), and Dating Rules From My Future Self (Hulu), all of which have been picked up to series. Liz also directed five wide-release movies including "Aquamarine," "Ramona and Beezus," and "Purple Hearts."
She has garnered a number of nominations and awards over the years. In 2017 Liz received a DGA Award nomination for "Outstanding Direction" for her work on the pilot for Amazon's "The Kicks." Her show, "Relationship Status" starring Milo Ventimiglia was an official selection for the Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for two daytime Emmys. Her series BH90210 for CBS/Fox was the highest debut of the summer of 2019 and was an honorable mention in The New Yorker for best show of the year. The "Purple Hearts" original soundtrack overseen by Liz was the top soundtrack worldwide upon its release, and the single "Come Back Home" went gold. "Purple Hearts" also holds the number 7 spot on Netflix's top ten most viewed movies of all time. And she won an Emmy for "Sneakerella" for Best Fiction Special. She has also directed over a dozen successful music videos and was shortlisted for a Clio Award for a spec Coca-Cola commercial.
Liz began her career by directing a 25-minute USC film, "Eyeball Eddie" starring Martin Starr, M. Emmett Walsh and Michael Rosenbaum which led her to her first feature film assignment at 20th Century Fox. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University and did her graduate work at USC where she was awarded the Jack Nicholson Award for the "strongest directing" candidate.
Liz is a board member for "Cornell in Hollywood" and a professor at USC's film school. She resides in Los Angeles with her writer/producer husband, Scott, their son, Theo and her two dogs, Tony and Cookie Rosenbaum. @thisislizallenCareful What You Wish For- Producer
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Cynthia Mort was born on 18 June 1956. She is a producer and writer, known for When We Kill the Creators (2020), The Brave One (2007) and Will & Grace (1998).Nina- Art Department
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Jennifer Yuh Nelson was born on 7 May 1972 in South Korea. She is a director, known for Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Love, Death & Robots (2019) and Spawn (1997).Kung Fu Panda 3- Director
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Roxanne Benjamin is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. She is known for directing the horror films Body at Brighton Rock and There's Something Wrong with the Children and producing the horror anthology films V/H/S, V/H/S/2 and Southbound. She also wrote and directed segments of the horror anthologies Southbound and XX.
Roxanne Benjamin was born and raised in Bradford, Pennsylvania. She began her film career producing V/H/S and its sequel V/H/S/2. Benjamin wrote and directed segments for Southbound and XX. She also wrote and directed her first feature film, Body at Brighton Rock, and has worked as a director on such television series as Creepshow, Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Nancy Drew, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin and One of Us Is Lying. Her second feature film There's Something Wrong with the Children is due in 2023.
In July 2021, Benjamin signed on to direct an American remake of the Spanish horror and thriller film La Cueva titled Fall Into Darkness.
She is very reserved about her personal and private life.Southbound- Director
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Accomplished Film Director/Writer/Producer Mira Nair was born in India and educated at Delhi University and at Harvard. She began her film career as an actor and then turned to directing award-winning documentaries, including So Far From India and India Cabaret. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988; it won the Camera D'Or (for best first feature) and the Prix du Publique (for most popular entry) at the Cannes Film Festival and 25 other international awards. Her next film, Mississippi Masala, an interracial love story set in the American South and Uganda, starring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, won three awards at the Venice Film Festival including Best Screenplay and The Audience Choice Award. Subsequent films include The Perez Family (with Marisa Tomei, Anjelica Huston, Alfred Molina and Chazz Palminteri), about an exiled Cuban family in Miami; and the sensuous Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, which she directed and co-wrote. Nair directed My Own Country based on Dr. Abraham Verghese's best-selling memoir about a young immigrant doctor dealing with the AIDS epidemic. Made in 1998, My Own Country starred Naveen Andrews, Glenne Headly, Marisa Tomei, Swoosie Kurtz, and Hal Holbrook, and was awarded the NAACP award for best fiction feature. Nair returned to the documentary form in August 1999 with The Laughing Club of India, which was awarded The Special Jury Prize in the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2000. In the summer of 2000, Nair shot Monsoon Wedding in 30 days, a story of a Punjabi wedding starring Naseeruddin Shah and an ensemble of Indian actors. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, Monsoon Wedding also won a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and opened worldwide to tremendous critical and commercial acclaim. Nair's next feature was an HBO original film, Hysterical Blindness. Set in working class New Jersey in 1987, the film stars Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, Gena Rowlands. Thurman and Lewis play single women looking for love in all the wrong places, while Rowlands, who plays Thurman's mother, adds to her daughter's hysteria when she finds Mr. Right in Ben Gazarra. The film received great critical acclaim and the highest ratings for HBO, garnering an audience of 15 million, a Golden Globe for Uma Thurman, and 3 Emmy Awards. Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Nair joined a group of 11 renowned filmmakers, each commissioned to direct a film that was 11 minutes, 9 seconds and one frame long. Nair's film is a retelling of real events in the life of the Hamdani family in Queens, whose eldest son was missing after September 11, and was then accused by the media of being a terrorist. 11.09.01 is the true story of a mother's search for her son who did not return home on that fateful day. In May 2003, Nair helmed the Focus Features production of the Thackeray classic, Vanity Fair, a provocative period tale set in post-colonial England, in which Reese Witherspoon plays the lead, Becky Sharp. The film is scheduled to release in Fall 2004. Nair's upcoming projects include Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul for HBO, and Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist, and there are also plans to take Monsoon Wedding to Broadway. Mirabai Films is establishing an annual filmmaker's laboratory, Maisha, which will be dedicated to the support of visionary screenwriters and directors in East Africa and India. The first lab, which is only for screenwriters, will be launched in August 2005 in Kampala, Uganda.Queen of Katwe