Women in Film - Directors Part 1

Jane Campion is the first ever woman to receive the Palm d'Or at Cannes for the Piano. She is also one of only 4 women nominated for an academy award for Best Director. She won an academy award for Best Original screenplay for The Piano.
Selected Filmography: Bright Star (2009) The Portrait of a Lady (1996) The Piano (1993)
Current/Future Projects: Campion is executive producer for acclaimed miniseries Top of the Lake. She will be co-writing and co-directing a second season.
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Kathryn Bigelow The first woman to win an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critic's Choice Movie Award and Directors Guild of America Award for directing The Hurt Locker (2008). She was also the first woman to win a Saturn Award for Best Director for Strange Days (1995). Often she is described as working in male dominated genres but surely with so few women working in film all genres are male dominated.
Selected Filmography: Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Point Break (1991) Near Dark (1987) 
Current/Future Projects: An untitled film set during the 1967 Detroit riots.
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Mira Nair Her debut feature Salaam Bombay (1988) was nominated for an Academy Award. She won the Golden Lion for Mississipi Massala at the Venice Film Festival.
Selected Filmography: Vanity Fair (2004) Monsoon Wedding (2001) Mississippi Massala (1991)
Current/Future Projects: Her next release will be Queen of Katwe a Disney film starring Lupita  N'yongo and David Oyelowo.
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Andrea Arnold She won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short for WASP (2003) a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut in 2007 for Red Road and was awarded an OBE in 2011.
Selected Filmography: Wuthering Heights (2011) Fish Tank (2009) Red Road (2006)
Current/Future Projects: 2 episodes of Transparent and film American Honey showing at Cannes  2016.
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Gurinder Chadha Her highest grossing film Bend it Like Beckham $76,583,333 on a budget of $6 million. It helped catapult Kiera Knightley to stardom and also starred Parminder Nagra and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
Selected Filmography: Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) Bend it Like Beckham (2002) Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
Current/Future Projects: Viceroy's house due for release 2016.
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BFI 10 great British Films Directed by Women