It's been 10 years since Kathryn Bigelow's best director win at the Oscars, but has anything changed? Directors Karyn Kusama, Liz Garbus, and Autumn de Wilde weigh in on the Oscars' gender problem.
It’s so depressing to realize that no women have won best director since Kathryn Bigelow. Even though I’d been making films for some time when she won, my consciousness of the industry’s inequity was not as fine-tuned or data based as it is now. In the past 10 years, there has been an enormous amount of research and work done on that topic, and it’s something I think about so much more frequently, but in 2010, [Bigelow’s] win felt so unique and isolated.
It felt, first and foremost, like a director won, and then it felt like it was a woman, finally—but it didn’t feel like a token win, and that was really important.As a documentarian and photographer, I also feel women aren’t documented at work enough in film. When someone says “the director,” we picture these incredible photos throughout cinema history of Scorsese and Coppola on set, and I think studios need to put more effort behind the fantasy documentation of women at work.
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