Top 5 female directors

Top 5 female directors Top 5 female directors There’s still a long road ahead before women and men are equally represented in film – both in front of the camera and behind it. Fortunately, it’s great to see a number of productions this year alone showing the talent of and making headway for female directors. We’ve had the stunning period piece The Beguiled, which won the Best Director award for Sofia Coppola at the Cannes Film Festival, and Julia Ducournau’s horror Raw, which has been highly acclaimed (it holds a 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes) and is one of the best films of the year so far. Then who can forget Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins’ surprise hit for Warner Bros/DC which has just crossed the $800m mark in worldwide box office receipts? Inspired by these films and more (Kathryn Bigelow’s stellar Detroit is also out this week), we’ve chosen the top five female directors of our time whose movies you just have to check out