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Patty Jenkins
Warner Bros.
Not only is Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman” the highest-grossing superhero origin story, it’s also the highest-grossing movie ever directed by a woman, earning over $820 million at the worldwide box office and made Gal Gadot a star.
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Amma Asante
Fox Searchlight
Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo star in Amma Asante’s period drama “A United Kingdom”, based on the real-life interracial romance between King Seretse of Botswana and Ruth Williams, a white British woman in the late 1940s.
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Ceyda Torun
Termite Films
Directed by Ceyda Torun, “Kedi” is one of the year’s most uplifting and purrfect documentaries taking a look at the life of street cats and the humans who love them in Turkey.
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Denise Di Novi
Warner Bros.
Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson faced off in the thriller “Unforgettable”, the directorial debut of longtime producer Denise Di Novi.
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Marti Noxon
Netflix
Marti Noxon’s original Netflix movie “To The Bone” delved into the world of eating disorders in the drama starring Lily Collins and Keanu Reeves.
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Lone Scherfig
Elevation Pictures
Set during the Dunkirk evacuation, “Their Finest” by Lone Scherfig follows a newly-appointed scriptwriter (Gemma Arterton) for British propaganda films who forges on along with a film crew in the middle of the London bombing Blitz.
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Sofia Coppola
Universal Pictures
Sofia Coppola directs an A-list cast including Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst in “The Beguiled”, a sinister Civil War period drama full of jealousy and betrayal.
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Julia Ducournau
Focus World
“Raw” made waves when it played TIFF in 2016, causing audience members to reportedly faint during a screening of the horror movie about a vegetarian veterinary student who develops a taste for meat. The French horror by Julia Ducournau earned critical praise and several awards including the FIPRESCI prize awarded by film critics at Cannes.
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Trish Sie
Universal pictures
Trish Sie took over “Pitch Perfect 3” for the musical sequel about everyone’s favourite a capella group, the Bellas. Sie stepped up to direct after Elizabeth Banks stepped back from the director’s chair after directing “Pitch Perfect 2” to a $288 million haul.
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Margaret Betts
Mongrel Media
Filmmaker Margaret Betts made her feature film directorial debut with “Novitiate”. Set during the 1960s, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with a changing church in this drama starring breakout actress Margaret Qualley, Dianna Agron, Julianne Nicholson and Oscar-winner Melissa Leo.
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Stella Meghie
Warner Bros.
Toronto-born Stella Meghie directed the big screen adaptation of the best-selling YA romance “Everything, Everything”, which earned over $60 million at the worldwide box office on a $10 million production budget.
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Niki Caro
Elevation Pictures
Inspired by a true story, Niki Caro’s “The Zookeeper’s Wife” stars Jessica Chastain as Antonina Zabinski who helped shelter Jews in the abandoned Warsaw Zoo during WWII.
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Stacy Title
STX
Director Stacy Title brought the scares with the horror flick “The Bye Bye Man”, 23 years after she earned an Oscar nomination for her short film debut.
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Kathryn Bigelow
eOne
She’s the first – and so far only – woman to win the Oscar for Best Director. In 2017, Kathryn Bigelow followed up her Best Picture nominated “Zero Dark Thirty” with a look at the 1967 "Detroit" riots starring John Boyega.
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Ry Russo-Young
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Zoey Deutch stars as a teenager who relives the day of her death over and over in Ry Russo-Young’s “Before I Fall”.
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