List of female film and television directors
This is a list of female film and television directors. Their works may include live action and/or animated features, shorts, documentaries, telemovies, TV programs, or videos.
A
- Jennifer Abbott
- Jennifer Abod
- Marguerite Abouet
- Abiola Abrams
- Ally Acker
- Jill Ackles
- Kasia Adamik
- Catlin Adams
- Joey Lauren Adams
- Perry Miller Adato
- Anita W. Addison
- Maren Ade
- Elvire Adjamonsi
- Yasmin Ahmad
- Peggy Ahwesh
- Shirikiana Aina
- Kyōko Aizome
- Mania Akbari
- Chantal Akerman
- Desiree Akhavan
- Zoya Akhtar
- Nargis Akhter
- Haifaa al-Mansour
- Gina Alajar
- Barbara Albert
- Karin Albou
- Victoria Aleksanyan
- Lexi Alexander
- Debbie Allen
- Elizabeth Allen
- Jennifer Alleyn
- Natalia Almada
- Chihiro Amano
- Suzana Amaral
- Tata Amaral
- Barbra Amesbury
- Ana Lily Amirpour
- Allison Anders
- Gillian Anderson
- Jane Anderson
- Laurie Anderson
- Madeline Anderson
- Sarah Pia Anderson
- Sini Anderson
- Momoko Ando
- Fern Andra
- Scilla Andreen
- Preeti Aneja
- Joanna Angel
- Lucia Aniello
- Jennifer Aniston
- Catherine Annau
- Martha Ansara
- Lisa Rose Apramian
- Shamim Ara
- Danielle Arbid
- Louise Archambault
- Francesca Archibugi
- Jane Arden
- Asia Argento
- Allison Argo
- Kay Armatage
- Franny Armstrong
- Gillian Armstrong
- Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
- Gwen Arner
- Andrea Arnold
- Patricia Arquette
- Rosanna Arquette
- Karen Arthur
- Natasha Arthy
- Dorothy Arzner
- Dinara Asanova
- Amma Asante
- Mari Asato
- Katie Aselton
- Asinnajaq
- Dorothy A. Atabong
- Jacqueline Audry
- Shona Auerbach
- Ashley Avis
- Nurith Aviv
- Ronit Avni
- Tali Avrahami
- Lisa Azuelos
B
- Beth B
- Jamie Babbit
- Iskra Babich
- Julia Bacha
- Yamina Bachir-Chouikh
- Marina Rice Bader
- Cindy Baer
- Jennifer Baichwal
- Norma Bailey
- Paule Baillargeon
- Robin Bain
- Catherine Bainbridge
- Josiane Balasko
- Lucille Ball
- Marta Balletbò-Coll
- Anne Bancroft
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Sofia Banzhaf
- Manon Barbeau
- Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
- Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
- Laura Bari
- Céline Baril
- Neema Barnette
- Roseanne Barr
- Katherine Barrell
- Cecilia Barriga
- Drew Barrymore
- Angela Bassett
- Michal Bat-Adam
- Joy Batchelor
- Kathy Bates
- Signe Baumane
- Janet Baus
- Jordan Bayne
- Amanda Bearse
- Maria Beatty
- Marjorie Beaucage
- Renée Beaulieu
- Gabrielle Beaumont
- André-Line Beauparlant
- Aida Begić
- Fatma Begum
- Feryal Behzad
- Nancy Beiman
- Esther Bell
- Mary Lou Belli
- Edet Belzberg
- María Luisa Bemberg
- Jessica Bendinger
- Yamina Benguigui
- Sadie Benning
- Denyse Benoit
- Amber Benson
- Emmanuelle Bercot
- Amy J. Berg
- Shari Springer Berman
- Joyce Bernal
- Juliet Berto
- Diane Bertrand
- Julie Bertuccelli
- Maïwenn Le Besco
- Jane Marsh Beveridge
- Troy Beyer
- Pooja Bhatt
- Natalie Bible'
- Ric Esther Bienstock
- Susanne Bier
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Anna Biller
- Patricia Birch
- Antonia Bird
- Roshell Bissett
- Sophie Bissonnette
- Justine Bitagoye
- Simone Bitton
- Marthe Blackburn
- Sonia Blangiardo
- Katja Blichfeld
- Lidia Bobrova
- Marusya Bociurkiw
- Emily Kai Bock
- Anna Boden
- Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Sonia Boileau
- Icíar Bollaín
- Natalya Bondarchuk
- Lisa Bonet
- Sandrine Bonnaire
- Manju Borah
- Lizzie Borden
- Joyce Borenstein
- Shonali Bose
- Karen Boswall
- Leyla Bouzid
- Kansas Bowling
- Muriel Box
- Maureen Bradley
- Madeline Brandeis
- Maryann Brandon
- Netalie Braun
- Anja Breien
- Catherine Breillat
- Zabou Breitman
- Amit Breuer
- Manon Briand
- Zana Briski
- Tricia Brock
- Beth Broderick
- Katrina Holden Bronson
- Katherine Brooks
- Julie Brown
- Christene Browne
- Frances Buss Buch
- Valerie Buhagiar
- Nanette Burstein
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Maria Burton
- Sophia Bush
- Akosua Busia
- Andrea Bussmann
- Mary Ellen Bute
C
- Dominique Cabrera
- Sophia Cacciola
- Anne-Marie Cadieux
- Julia Cameron
- Jessica Cameron
- Peg Campbell
- Tisha Campbell-Martin
- Jane Campion
- Kat Candler
- Jordan Canning
- Dyan Cannon
- Kay Cannon
- Fernanda Cardoso
- Patricia Cardoso
- Maggie Carey
- Edith Carlmar
- Niki Caro
- Ana Carolina
- Joan Carr-Wiggin
- Albertina Carri
- Shelagh Carter
- Camille de Casabianca
- Alana Cash
- Alexandra Cassavetes
- Zoe Cassavetes
- Cecil Castellucci
- Liliana Cavani
- Jennifer Celotta
- Gurinder Chadha
- Ilene Chaiken
- Tanuja Chandra
- Sylvia Chang
- Lyne Charlebois
- Martine Chartrand
- Lilyan Chauvin
- Shu Lea Cheang
- Shirley Cheechoo
- Joan Chen
- Evelyn Spice Cherry
- Mabel Cheung
- Sagari Chhabra
- Patricia Chica
- Abigail Child
- Karen Cho
- Monia Chokri
- Lisa Cholodenko
- Joyce Chopra
- Zero Chou
- Deborah Chow
- Věra Chytilová
- Katerina Cizek
- Julie St. Claire
- Shirley Clarke
- Millefiore Clarkes
- Maja Classen
- Marie Clements
- Susan Cohen
- Yulie Cohen
- Isabel Coixet
- Giada Colagrande
- Fabienne Colas
- Janis Cole
- Cristina Comencini
- Nicole Conn
- Heather Connell
- Lisa Connor
- Janice Cooke-Leonard
- Martha Coolidge
- Nancy Cooperstein
- Eleanor Coppola
- Sofia Coppola
- Cristina Kotz Cornejo
- Larissa Corriveau
- Catherine Corsini
- Ghyslaine Côté
- Michèle Cournoyer
- Marie-Hélène Cousineau
- Courteney Cox
- Barbara Cranmer
- Judith Crawley
- Leanna Creel
- Jeanne Crépeau
- Emma-Kate Croghan
- Catherine Crouch
- Fiona Cumming
- Carolynne Cunningham
- Shelley Curtis
- Thirza Cuthand
D
- Tamela D'Amico
- Cherien Dabis
- Eva Dahr
- Holly Dale
- Mireille Dansereau
- Gia Darling
- Joan Darling
- Rima Das
- Julie Dash
- Byambasuren Davaa
- Dorothy Davenport
- Tamra Davis
- Roxann Dawson
- Linda Day
- Laura de Jonge
- Miranda de Pencier
- Autumn de Wilde
- Tracey Deer
- Regine Deforges
- Donna Deitch
- Katrina del Mar
- Julie Delpy
- Claire Denis
- Pouran Derakhshandeh
- Sophie Deraspe
- Maya Deren
- Dhvani Desai
- Virginie Despentes
- Arundhati Devi
- Aishwarya R. Dhanush
- Vivienne Dick
- Katherine Dieckmann
- Susie Dietter
- Mati Diop
- Zoe Dirse
- Abigail Disney
- Leila Djansi
- Assia Djebar
- Nana Djordjadze
- Shannen Doherty
- Gail Dolgin
- Trish Dolman
- Mary Agnes Donoghue
- Mia Donovan
- Andrea Dorfman
- Anita Doron
- Doris Dörrie
- Nicole Dorsey
- Illeana Douglas
- Elissa Down
- Polly Draper
- Fran Drescher
- Marie Dressler
- Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew
- Kate Drummond
- Germaine Dulac
- Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
- Alma Duncan
- Lena Dunham
- Cheryl Dunye
- Sophie Dupuis
- Marguerite Duras
- Clea DuVall
- Ava DuVernay
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- Christine Edzard
- Michelle Ehlen
- Debra Eisenstadt
- Jihan El-Tahri
- Jan Eliasberg
- Bille Eltringham
- Erma Elzy-Jones
- Anne Émond
- Esther Eng
- Diane English
- Ildikó Enyedi
- Nora Ephron
- Marie Epstein
- Abby Epstein
- Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Claudia Morgado Escanilla
- Danishka Esterhazy
- Bang Eun-jin
- Ewa Ewart
- Valie Export
- Tali Shalom Ezer
F
- Trey Fanjoy
- Mitra Farahani
- Danielle Faraldo
- Valerie Faris
- Marianne Farley
- Vera Farmiga
- Forough Farrokhzad
- Sepideh Farsi
- Safi Faye
- Daniela Fejerman
- Rachel Feldman
- Lynne Fernie
- Pepita Ferrari
- Sally Field
- Chip Fields
- Kim Fields
- Martha Fiennes
- Sophie Fiennes
- Denise Filiatrault
- Roberta Findlay
- Frauke Finsterwalder
- Jenna Fischer
- Jennifer Flackett
- Tracy Flannigan
- Luise Fleck
- Ann Marie Fleming
- Anne Fletcher
- Shannon Flynn
- Anna Foerster
- Susanna Fogel
- Cheryl Foggo
- Deanne Foley
- Sheree Folkson
- Anne Fontaine
- Maya Forbes
- Amanda Forbis
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
- Jodie Foster
- Kathryn Foster
- Lilibet Foster
- Tori Foster
- Beryl Fox
- Jennifer Fox
- Rana Abu Fraihah
- Bonnie Franklin
- Raquel Freire
- Camelia Frieberg
- Liz Friedlander
- Kim Friedman
- Vivi Friedman
- Kim Friedman
- Su Friedrich
- Shirley Frimpong-Manso
- Grete Frische
- Sarah Frost
- Soleil Moon Frye
- Pamela Fryman
- Kei Fujiwara
G
- Bethany Joy Galeotti
- Maya Gallus
- Nisha Ganatra
- Liz Garbus
- Emmanuelle Schick Garcia
- Nicole Garcia
- Jennifer Garner
- Katja von Garnier
- Katy Garretson
- Jennie Garth
- Karen Gaviola
- Julie Gavras
- Sarah Gavron
- Katrin Gebbe
- Geretta Geretta
- Greta Gerwig
- Jennifer Getzinger
- Tina Gharavi
- Coky Giedroyc
- Maria Giese
- Melody Gilbert
- Melissa Gilbert
- Leah Gilliam
- Abby Ginzberg
- Tess Girard
- Lillian Gish
- Ellen Gittelsohn
- Lesli Linka Glatter
- Delphine Gleize
- Alesia Glidewell
- Lana Gogoberidze
- Dana Goldberg
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Valeria Golino
- Rosser Goodman
- Dennie Gordon
- Marleen Gorris
- Rachel Goslins
- Lisa Gottlieb
- Marita Grabiak
- Debra Granik
- Anais Granofsky
- Lee Grant
- Phyllis Grant
- Susannah Grant
- Janet Greek
- Lynnie Greene
- Amy Greenfield
- Lauren Greenfield
- Maggie Greenwald
- Annie Griffin
- Allison Grodner
- Esther Gronenborn
- Patricia Gruben
- Aurora Guerrero
- Gigi Saul Guerrero
- Sonali Gulati
- Xiaolu Guo
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Jasmine Guy
H
- Joana Hadjithomas
- Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Mona Zandi Haghighi
- Helen Haig-Brown
- Randa Haines
- Maha Haj
- Pam Hall
- Sachi Hamano
- Lisa Gay Hamilton
- Sylvia Hamilton
- Tanya Hamilton
- Barbara Hammer
- Sanaa Hamri
- Kristin Hanggi
- Marion Hänsel
- Mia Hansen-Løve
- Neasa Hardiman
- Catherine Hardwicke
- Danielle Harris
- Mary Harron
- Jackée Harry
- Melissa Joan Hart
- Phoebe Hart
- Jessica Hausner
- Goldie Hawn
- Gwen Haworth
- Salma Hayek
- Helaine Head
- Leslye Headland
- Julie Hébert
- Anne Heche
- Jen Heck
- Amy Heckerling
- Sian Heder
- Birgit Hein
- Manijeh Hekmat
- Marielle Heller
- Katherine Helmond
- Heather Hemmens
- Felicia D. Henderson
- Maryam Henein
- Jill Hennessy
- Astrid Henning-Jensen
- Kathleen Hepburn
- Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Sachiko Hidari
- Heather Hill
- Cheryl Hines
- Ivy Ho
- Lyndall Hobbs
- Victoria Hochberg
- Tamar Simon Hoffs
- Joanna Hogg
- Agnieszka Holland
- Helen Holmes
- Peggy Holmes
- Nicole Holofcener
- Mahboubeh Honarian
- Solveig Hoogesteijn
- Zoe Hopkins
- Gwyneth Horder-Payton
- Rebecca Horn
- Anna Maria Horsford
- Joan Horvath
- Sally El Hosaini
- Dianne Houston
- Bryce Dallas Howard
- Tasha Hubbard
- Bronwen Hughes
- Ann Hui
- Danielle Huillet
- Bonnie Hunt
- Courtney Hunt
- Helen Hunt
- Nicki Hunter
- Tonya Hurley
- Anjelica Huston
- Sophie Hyde
I
- Indrani
- Dana Inkster
- Laura Innes
- Nyla Innuksuk
- Diana Lee Inosanto
- Bodil Ipsen
- Elisapie Isaac
- Debbie Isitt
- Lula Ali Ismaïl
- Madeline Ivalu
- Julia Crawford Ivers
J
- Mehreen Jabbar
- Annemarie Jacir
- Lisa Jackson
- Katie Jacobs
- Sarah Jacobson
- Jeong Jae-eun
- Wanda Jakubowska
- Annabel Jankel
- Agnès Jaoui
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Christine Jeffs
- Patty Jenkins
- Tamara Jenkins
- Katherine Jerkovic
- Renuka Jeyapalan
- Xiao Jiang
- Liu Jiayin
- Xu Jinglei
- Karen Johnson
- Angelina Jolie
- G. B. Jones
- Rachel Leah Jones
- Meryam Joobeur
- Hella Joof
- Yashira Jordán
- Mary Jordan
- Nana Jorjadze
- Suma Josson
- Petra Joy
- Maureen Judge
- Miranda July
- Ingrid Jungermann
- Marie-Ève Juste
K
- Wanuri Kahiu
- Shahnewaz Kakoli
- Alex Kalymnios
- Deborah Kampmeier
- Ellie Kanner
- Nelly Kaplan
- Betty Kaplan
- Deborah Kaplan
- Prema Karanth
- Niki Karimi
- Anna Karina
- Alexa Karolinski
- Matia Karrell
- Nicole Kassell
- Daphna Kastner
- Nancy Kates
- Ish Amitoj Kaur
- Mariko Kawana
- Naomi Kawase
- Diane Keaton
- Elodie Keene
- Alan Rowe Kelly
- Jennifer Kent
- Elza Kephart
- Sarah Kernochan
- Joanna Kerns
- T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh
- Dorota Kędzierzawska
- Farah Khan
- Callie Khouri
- Beeban Kidron
- Kaleena Kiff
- Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran
- Clare Kilner
- Jacqueline Kim
- So Yong Kim
- Eilis Kirwan
- Eriko Kitagawa
- Bonnie Sherr Klein
- Ana Kokkinos
- Kathy Kolla
- Larysa Kondracki
- Barbara Kopple
- Torill Kove
- Ellen Kuras
- Diane Kurys
- Karyn Kusama
- Julia Kwan
- Sandra Kybartas
L
- Nadine Labaki
- Christine Lahti
- Kalpana Lajmi
- Karen Lam
- Evelyn Lambart
- Alix Lambert
- Mary Lambert
- Micheline Lanctôt
- Jessica Landaw
- Valerie Landsburg
- Samantha Lang
- Yelena Lanskaya
- Clara Law
- Tracie Laymon
- Alexandra Lazarowich
- Margaret Lazarus
- Lauren Lazin
- Caroline Leaf
- Jeanne Leblanc
- Alexandra Leclère
- Mimi Leder
- Carinne Leduc
- Georgia Lee
- Helen Lee
- Iara Lee
- Jennifer Lee
- Karin Lee
- Min Sook Lee
- Sook-Yin Lee
- Wendee Lee
- Kat Lehmer
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Julia Leigh
- Valérie Lemercier
- Kasi Lemmons
- Marquise Lepage
- Chloé Leriche
- Naomi Levine
- Mary Lewis
- Li Yu
- Leslie Libman
- Yin Lichuan
- Allison Liddi-Brown
- Rakel Liekki
- Sharon Liese
- Georgina Lightning
- Nnegest Likké
- Desiree Lim
- Caroline Link
- Tatyana Lioznova
- Christine Lipinska
- Marion Lipschutz
- Lynne Littman
- Renata Litvinova
- Jennie Livingston
- Ma Liwen
- Claudia Llosa
- Phyllida Lloyd
- Jayne Loader
- Sondra Locke
- Barbara Loden
- Julie Lofton
- Julia Loktev
- Brenda Longfellow
- Kim Longinotto
- Kamala Lopez
- Sophie Lorain
- Ariane Louis-Seize
- Juliana Luecking
- Agnieszka Lukasiak
- Kátia Lund
- Luo Luo
- Ida Lupino
- Joy Lusco
- Noémie Lvovsky
- Lottie Lyell
- Dorothy Lyman
- Tucia Lyman
- Jennifer Lynch
- Lisbeth Lynghøft
- Gillian Lynne
M
- Kate Maberly
- Tina Mabry
- Hettie MacDonald
- Shauna MacDonald
- Michelle MacLaren
- Angelina Maccarone
- Allison Mack
- Alison Maclean
- Aoife Madden
- Mary Madeiras
- Madhumitha
- Madonna
- Maria Maggenti
- Adriana Maggs
- Sharon Maguire
- Donatella Maiorca
- Maïwenn
- Hana Makhmalbaf
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Sarah Maldoror
- Yassamin Maleknasr
- Anna Malle
- Nancy Malone
- Laura Mañá
- Gail Mancuso
- Babette Mangolte
- Suhasini Maniratnam
- Ami Canaan Mann
- Andrea Mann
- Michelle Manning
- Dinah Manoff
- Sophie Marceau
- Frances Marion
- Eisha Marjara
- Giulia Marletta
- Alina Marazzi
- Joanne Marcotte
- Guylaine Maroist
- Liz Marshall
- Penny Marshall
- Tonie Marshall
- Lucrecia Martel
- Catherine Martin
- Darnell Martin
- Aurora Martinez
- Marsha Mason
- Laetitia Masson
- Mary Stuart Masterson
- Anna Mastro
- Jean Mathieson
- Tomoko Matsunashi
- Elaine May
- Juliet May
- Daisy von Scherler Mayer
- Melanie Mayron
- Patricia Mazuy
- Aoife McArdle
- Elske McCain
- Beth McCarthy-Miller
- Claire McCarthy
- Jennette McCurdy
- Paulette McDonagh
- Sally McDonald
- Francine McDougall
- Molly McGlynn
- Mary McGuckian
- Danica McKellar
- Ashley McKenzie
- Nancy McKeon
- Gillian McKercher
- Tawnia McKiernan
- Sheila McLaughlin
- Carolyn McMaster
- Chelsea McMullan
- Lucile McVey
- Nancy Meckler
- Maria de Medeiros
- Ann Medina
- Stella Meghie
- Anisa Mehdi
- Deepa Mehta
- Vijaya Mehta
- Hu Mei
- Ursula Meier
- Anna Melikian
- Kay Mellor
- Linda Mendoza
- Nina Menkes
- Anjali Menon
- Agnès Merlet
- Marziyeh Meshkini
- Márta Mészáros
- Leah Meyerhoff
- Nancy Meyers
- Liu Miaomiao
- Anne-Marie Miéville
- Vanessa Middleton
- Ina Mihalache
- Tamineh Milani
- Amy Miller
- Elisa Miller
- Rebecca Miller
- Sharron Miller
- Pilar Miró
- Efrat Mishori
- Adrienne Mitchell
- Dorothea Mitchell
- Martha Mitchell
- Jill Mitwell
- Ariane Mnouchkine
- Tracey Moffat
- Hengameh Mofid
- Michelle Mohabeer
- Hillie Molenaar
- Karen Moncrieff
- Caroline Monnet
- Adriana Monti
- Christine Moore
- Jocelyn Moorhouse
- Soudabeh Moradian
- Jeanne Moreau
- Yolande Moreau
- Stephanie Morgenstern
- Makoto Moriwaki
- Carol Morley
- Judy Morris
- Dee Mosbacher
- Kim Moses
- Emilia Mosquito
- Granaz Moussavi
- Jasmin Mozaffari
- Nimisha Mukerji
- April Mullen
- Kira Muratova
- Beth Murphy
- Colleen Murphy
- Alison Murray
- Tosca Musk
- Jinna Mutune
- Anna Muylaert
- Gloria Muzio
- Toni Myers
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- Dana Nachman
- Fanta Régina Nacro
- Ruba Nadda
- Janice Nadeau
- Phyllis Nagy
- Mira Nair
- Najwa Najjar
- Laurel Nakadate
- Isabelle Nanty
- Darlene Naponse
- Terre Nash
- Sandra Nashaat
- Afia Nathaniel
- Zarqa Nawaz
- Anjali Nayar
- Lynne Naylor
- Mariam Ndagire
- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
- Laura Neri
- Shirin Neshat
- Jennifer Siebel Newsom
- Lisa Niemi
- Jessica Nilsson
- Mika Ninagawa
- Vijaya Nirmala
- Miwa Nishikawa
- Michelle Nolden
- Peg Norman
- Mabel Normand
- Isabel Noronha
- Elvira Notari
- Maria Novaro
- Lynn Novick
- Cherie Nowlan
- Marti Noxon
O
- Mipo O
- Kim O'Bomsawin
- Katharine O'Brien
- Renee O'Connor
- Alice O'Fredericks
- Eileen O'Meara
- Alanis Obomsawin
- Diane Obomsawin
- Paula van der Oest
- Naoko Ogigami
- Mipo Oh
- Susan Oliver
- Madeleine Olnek
- Jenni Olson
- Gulshat Omarova
- Yoko Ono
- Midi Onodera
- Ngozi Onwurah
- Suemay Oram
- Ruth Orkin
- Katrin Ottarsdóttir
- Ulrike Ottinger
- Jackie Oudney
- Akosua Adoma Owusu
- Jan Oxenberg
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- Nisha Pahuja
- Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
- Euzhan Palcy
- Gail Palmer
- Sai Paranjpye
- Claire Parker
- Francine Parker
- Gudrun Parker
- Molly Parker
- Pratibha Parmar
- Laura Parnes
- Christine Pascal
- Stacie Passon
- Lesley Ann Patten
- Paula Patton
- Nelofer Pazira
- Barbara Peeters
- Kimberly Peirce
- Andrée Pelletier
- Francine Pelletier
- Alexandra Pelosi
- Sumitra Peries
- Cristina Perincioli
- Janet Perlman
- Ellen Perry
- Donna Pescow
- Kristine Peterson
- Lori Petty
- Jennifer Phang
- Ileana Pietrobruno
- Justine Pimlott
- Carol Pineau
- Agnieszka Piotrowska
- Mary Kay Place
- Amy Poehler
- Anne Claire Poirier
- Lindsey Pollard
- Sarah Polley
- Léa Pool
- Leanne Pooley
- Cynthia J. Popp
- Lourdes Portillo
- Natalie Portman
- Franka Potente
- Sally Potter
- Brigitte Poupart
- Deborah Pratt
- Olga Preobrazhenskaya
- Ellen S. Pressman
- Gaylene Preston
- Carrie Preston
- Claire Prieto
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
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- Vivian Qu
- Joanna Quinn
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- Tahani Rached
- Deborah Raffin
- Eliane Raheb
- Yvonne Rainer
- Rajashree
- Soundarya Rajinikanth
- Peggy Rajski
- Bhanumathi Ramakrishna
- Lynne Ramsay
- Suze Randall
- Roopa Rao
- Jenny Raskin
- Irma Raush
- Trisha Ray
- Amy Redford
- Jennifer Reeder
- Dee Rees
- Kelly Reichardt
- Lotte Reiniger
- Revathi
- Shabnam Rezaei
- Shonda Rhimes
- Cloudy Rhodes
- Andrea Giles Rich
- Chantal Richard
- Patricia Richardson
- Salli Richardson
- Yoruba Richen
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Patricia Riggen
- Tristan Risk
- Marialy Rivas
- Joan Rivers
- Chloé Robichaud
- Angela Robinson
- Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
- Julie Anne Robinson
- Melanie Rodriga
- Rosemary Rodriguez
- Gerry Rogers
- Juliana Rojas
- Bethany Rooney
- Jeanne Roques
- Alison E. Rose
- Lee Rose
- Sue Rose
- Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
- Rose Rosenblatt
- Tatia Rosenthal
- Tracee Ellis Ross
- Vanessa Roth
- Stephanie Rothman
- Brigitte Roüan
- Candida Royalle
- Patricia Rozema
- Catarina Ruivo
- Marisa Ryan
- Marja-Lewis Ryan
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- Jocelyne Saab
- Randa Chahal Sabag
- Jean Sagal
- Leontine Sagan
- Michelle St. John
- Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
- Tazuko Sakane
- Gabriela Samper
- Helke Sander
- Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Arlene Sanford
- Sangeeta
- Satarupa Sanyal
- Shamim Sarif
- Valeria Sarmiento
- Inoka Sathyangani
- Shimako Satō
- Marjane Satrapi
- Brigitte Sauriol
- Savitri
- Nancy Savoca
- Lorene Scafaria
- Lone Scherfig
- Greta Schiller
- Jillian Schlesinger
- Roslyn Schwartz
- Céline Sciamma
- Jordan Scott
- Cynthia Scott
- Nell Scovell
- Beverly Sebastion
- Lorraine Segato
- Susan Seidelman
- Amy Seimetz
- Arna Selznick
- Yoshiko Sembon
- Aparna Sen
- Lorraine Senna
- Amy Serrano
- Coline Serreau
- Beverly Shaffer
- Lee Shallat-Chemel
- Meher Afroz Shaon
- Kathleen Shannon
- Jessica Sharzer
- Helen Shaver
- Tal Shefi
- Adrienne Shelly
- Angela Shelton
- Lynn Shelton
- Millicent Shelton
- Tali Shemesh
- Larisa Shepitko
- Kirsten Sheridan
- Amy Sherman-Palladino
- Cindy Sherman
- Domee Shi
- Ann Shin
- Sofia Shinas
- Nell Shipman
- Tiffany Shlain
- Cate Shortland
- Esfir Shub
- Mina Shum
- Huang Shuqin
- Mrs. Sidney Drew
- Trish Sie
- Evann Siebens
- Lois Siegel
- Floria Sigismondi
- Joan Micklin Silver
- Barbara Simmons
- Lisa Simon
- Anne-Marie Sirois
- Thérèse Sita-Bella
- Kari Skogland
- Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Jean Smith
- Alison Snowden
- Helena Solberg
- Yuliya Solntseva
- Frances-Anne Solomon
- Julia Solomonoff
- Jill Soloway
- Mingmongkol Sonakul
- Safiya Songhai
- Susan Sontag
- Jen and Sylvia Soska
- Jane Spencer
- Penelope Spheeris
- Jill Sprecher
- Avigail Sperber
- Sylvia Spring
- Emily Squires
- Wendey Stanzler
- Casandra Stark
- J.A. Steel
- Paprika Steen
- Susan Steinberg
- Katherine Stenholm
- Stella Stevens
- Julie Stewart
- Ginny Stikeman
- Virginia L. Stone
- Lynne Stopkewich
- Barbra Streisand
- Susan Strickler
- Susan Stroman
- Amanda Strong
- Vera Stroyeva
- Sara Sugarman
- Sabiha Sumar
- Elizabeth Sung
- Lela Swift
- Małgorzata Szumowska
T
- Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
- Rea Tajiri
- Lisa Takeba
- Rachel Talalay
- Shashwati Talukdar
- Bhavna Talwar
- Amber Tamblyn
- Yuki Tanada
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Loveleen Tandan
- Cyndi Tang
- Amanda Tapping
- Nadia Tass
- Heather Taylor
- Sam Taylor-Wood
- Julie Taymor
- Sakane Tazuko
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
- Suzie Templeton
- Angela Tessinari
- Joan Tewkesbury
- Lucy Thane
- Betty Thomas
- May Miles Thomas
- Pam Thomas
- Caroline Thompson
- Danièle Thompson
- Jessica M. Thompson
- Jody Thompson
- Lea Thompson
- Wendy Tilby
- Ondi Timoner
- Victory Tischler-Blue
- Stacy Title
- Maria Sole Tognazzi
- Farkhondeh Torabi
- Gariné Torossian
- Fina Torres
- Pimpaka Towira
- Sarah Townsend
- Wendy Toye
- Mouna Traoré
- Lindalee Tracey
- Jackie Traverse
- Julie Tremble
- Monika Treut
- Nadine Trintignant
- Lexie Findarle Trivundza
- Anne Troake
- Rose Troche
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Alice Troughton
- Charlotte de Turckheim
- Marie-Hélène Turcotte
- Guinevere Turner
- Aisha Tyler
U
- Liv Ullmann
- Sima Urale
- Urszula Urbaniak
V
- Esther Valiquette
- Marina de Van
- Agnès Varda
- Pam Veasey
- Ajita Suchitra Veera
- Norma Safford Vela
- Ingrid Veninger
- Katherena Vermette
- Myriam Verreault
- Sandrine Veysset
- Manuela Viegas
- Teresa Villaverde
- Vidhu Vincent
- Michal Vinik
- Wiebke von Carolsfeld
- Jürgen Vsych
W
- Louise Wadley
- Maria Wagner
- Sally Wainwright
- Lucy Walker
- Mary Walker-Sawka
- Nancy Walker
- Aisling Walsh
- Dearbhla Walsh
- Shannon Walsh
- Aloha Wanderwell
- Lulu Wang
- Rachel Ward
- Sarah Watt
- Kim Wayans
- Dreya Weber
- Lois Weber
- Zhao Wei
- Claudia Weill
- Leilah Weinraub
- Andrea Weiss
- Valerie Weiss
- Aerlyn Weissman
- Yvonne Welbon
- Audrey Wells
- Christine Welsh
- Jiang Wenli
- Lina Wertmüller
- Anne Wheeler
- Sherry White
- Susanna White
- Kanchi Wichmann
- Joyce Wieland
- Nettie Wild
- Olivia Wilde
- Dawn Wilkinson
- JoBeth Williams
- Tucky Williams
- Chandra Wilson
- Lois Wilson
- Margery Wilson
- Sandy Wilson
- Doris Wishman
- Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
- Mariloup Wolfe
- Joyce Wong
- Victoria Wood
- Kate Woods
- Jacqueline Wright
- Robin Wright
- Alice Wu
X
- Xue Xiaolu
- Xue Xiaolu
Y
- Naoko Yamada
- Tizuka Yamasaki
- Chikako Yamashiro
- Yūki Yamato
- Ruby Yang
- Yong-hi Yang
- Pamela Yates
- Linda Yellen
- Ning Ying
- Suzi Yoonessi
- Yumi Yoshiyuki
- Heather Young
- Byun Young-joo
- Jessica Yu
Z
- Samia Zaman
- Sara Zandieh
- Yolande Zauberman
- Jasmila Žbanić
- Ona Zee
- Mai Zetterling
- Chenyang Zhao
- Zhang Nuanxin
- Monica Zanetti
- Binka Zhelyazkova
- Lydia Zimmermann