Oscars: Justine Triet is 8th woman nominated in Best Director category

Film directing has long been dominated by men, and they continue to earn a vast majority of the Best Director nominations at the Oscars. Yet, there have been several trailblazing women that have broken through and earned bids at the Academy Awards. Specifically, eight of them have been nominated a total of nine times. Scroll through our photo gallery above (or click here for direct access) for a look back at all of the female directors nominated for Oscars in the Best Director category. To date, three females — Kathryn Bigelow, Chloe Zhao and Jane Campion — have taken home the statuette. At the upcoming 2024 Oscars, several women were in the running for the directing trophy, but only Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”) reaped a bid.

Triet became the eighth female director nominee in Oscar history for the French film starring Sandra Hüller as a woman who is accused of murdering her husband. Neon’s “Anatomy of a Fall” was not submitted by France for contention in the Best International Feature Film race, though it still received five total noms: picture, director, actress, original screenplay and film editing.

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Perhaps Oscar voters were impressed with Triet’s recent pair of Golden Globe speeches, when she accepted the awards for Best Non-English Language and for Best Screenplay. At the podium, the French filmmaker opened up about how she was worried “nobody was going to see this movie.” She recalled, “It’s too long, they talk all the time, there’s no score, a couple fighting, suicide, a dog vomiting … I mean, come on. But I want to make this film.”

Also throughout this awards season, Triet has been nominated in various categories at the BAFTA Awards, Gotham Awards and Independent Spirit Awards, and she also took home the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Her four directing co-nominees at the upcoming Oscars are Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Christopher Nolan (“Oppenheimer”), Yorgos Lanthimos (“Poor Things) and Jonathan Glazer (“The Zone of Interest”).

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If Triet is able to take down the overwhelming Oscar front-runner, Nolan, she would become the fourth woman to win Best Director. Bigelow made history by becoming the first female directing champion for “The Hurt Locker” (2009), and she was later followed up with Zhao for “Nomadland” (2020) and Campion for “The Power of the Dog” (2021).

Some of the other female directors who received buzz this awards season, but failed to make the cut on Tuesday morning, were Greta Gerwig (“Barbie”), Celine Song (“Past Lives”), Emerald Fennell (“Saltburn”) and Sofia Coppola (“Priscilla”). Are you happy Triet earned a Best Director nomination at the Oscars?

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