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[blue_lotus13]

I've heard that Sofia Coppola is the first American woman to be nominated for the Best Director category. Have women from other countries ever been nominated?

It still ticks me off when I think that Halle Berry was the first black actress to win an Academy Award. It was 2002, people.

These two examples are just another way of showing how Hollywood is completely skewed. Somewhat related to this was the fact that was mentioned in "Afflunenza". I can't remember the exact quote but it was about how people who watch a lot of television expect to have more material possessions and value material goods more.

I've realized that there are at least two types of people in the world-

1. idea people
2. stuff people.

I am fundamentally an "ideas" person. While I like nice things (hey, who doesn't) I get really excited about ideas, stories and facts.

To tie this all together, I've accepted the fact that I will never have a lot of money. However, I still want to leave a comfortable, and meaningful life, while doing some work that I love. I need to do something that means something, or at least something that lets me live comfortably while I write in my own time. I don't feel that this is too much to hope for, but it still seems to be out of reach.

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[blood-water.livejournal.com]

Actually, Hattie MacDaniel was the first black actress to win an Academy Award, Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Gone With the Wind. Halle Berry was the first black woman to win Best Actress.

Barbra Streisand was nominated for Best Director for The Prince of Tides, but I don't know if that was before or after Sofia Coppola.

[blood-water.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just realized Sofia Coppola was this year... so Babs was first American woman, I think. The first woman ever to be nominated for
best Director was Lina Wertmuller; she was Italian. The movie was Seven Beauties, 1976.

http://www.fsbassociates.com/vip/womenfilmmakers.htm

[blue-lotus.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. I knew someone would be able to fill me in.

[joeychen.livejournal.com]

Babs wasn't nominated for Director, but the picture was for Best Picture (so as a producer, she would have won that had it won)
Jane Campion is the third of the only three women to have been nominated, for The Piano.

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

Sofia Coppola is the first American woman to be nominated for directing (for her film "Lost in Translation"). Other nominated women directors include Lina Wertmuller of Italy for 1976's "Seven Beauties" and Jane Campion of New Zealand for 1993's "The Piano."

And something else I found interesting:

"...Sofia Coppola is... the first American woman so nominated; the first director nominee whose parent is a Best Director winner; the first director nominee whose grandfather was an Oscar winner; and the first director nominee whose spouse was also a nominated director. (I don’t know how many Oscar nominated directors also have aunts who were prior nominees—Talia Shire—or cousins who were winners—Nic Cage.)"