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
- Sarah Abbott
- Jennifer Abod
- Marguerite Abouet
- Abiola Abrams
- Mona Achache
- Nan Achnas
- Ally Acker
- Jill Ackles
- Kasia Adamik
- Catlin Adams
- Joey Lauren Adams
- Perry Miller Adato
- Anita W. Addison
- Maren Ade
- Harmony Adesola
- Elvire Adjamonsi
- Dianna Agron
- Yasmin Ahmad
- Peggy Ahwesh
- Shirikiana Aina
- Kyōko Aizome
- Omolola Ajao
- Mania Akbari
- Chantal Akerman
- Desiree Akhavan
- Zoya Akhtar
- Nargis Akhter
- Atuat Akkitirq
- Zaynê Akyol
- Haifaa al-Mansour
- Gina Alajar
- Maite Alberdi
- Barbara Albert
- Karin Albou
- Victoria Aleksanyan
- Lexi Alexander
- Debbie Allen
- Elizabeth Allen
- Jennifer Alleyn
- Natalia Almada
- Mairzee Almas
- Chihiro Amano
- Suzana Amaral
- Tata Amaral
- Barbra Amesbury
- Ana Lily Amirpour
- Bonnie Ammaq
- Valerie Amponsah
- Allison Anders
- Deborah Anderson
- Erica Anderson
- Gillian Anderson
- Jane Anderson
- Laurie Anderson
- Madeline Anderson
- Sarah Pia Anderson
- Sini Anderson
- Kamila Andini
- Momoko Ando
- Fern Andra
- Scilla Andreen
- Joanna Angel
- Irene Angelico
- Lucia Aniello
- Jennifer Aniston
- Catherine Annau
- Martha Ansara
- Jessie Anthony
- Lisa Rose Apramian
- Shamim Ara
- Danielle Arbid
- Louise Archambault
- Francesca Archibugi
- Fanny Ardant
- Jane Arden
- Asia Argento
- Allison Argo
- Kay Armatage
- Aviva Armour-Ostroff
- Franny Armstrong
- Gillian Armstrong
- Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
- Gwen Arner
- Andrea Arnold
- Patricia Arquette
- Rosanna Arquette
- Karen Arthur
- Natasha Arthy
- Larysa Artiugina
- Ritva Arvelo
- Dorothy Arzner
- Dinara Asanova
- Amma Asante
- Mari Asato
- Katie Aselton
- Asinnajaq
- Ratna Asmara
- Dorothy A. Atabong
- Daisy Aitkens
- Jacqueline Audry
- Shona Auerbach
- Latesha Auger
- Susan Avingaq
- 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
- Elizabeth Banks
- Sofia Banzhaf
- Manon Barbeau
- Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
- Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
- Laura Bari
- Céline Baril
- Neema Barnette
- Roseanne Barr
- Katherine Barrell
- Cecilia Barriga
- Drew Barrymore
- Maria Basaglia
- Svetlana Baskova
- 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
- Marcie Begleiter
- Fatma Begum
- Feryal Behzad
- Nancy Beiman
- Esther Bell
- Jennifer Lyon Bell
- Mary Lou Belli
- Edet Belzberg
- María Luisa Bemberg
- Nicol Ruiz Benavides
- Jessica Bendinger
- Yamina Benguigui
- Sadie Benning
- Denyse Benoit
- Amber Benson
- Emmanuelle Bercot
- Amy J. Berg
- Zaida Bergroth
- Shari Springer Berman
- Joyce Bernal
- Halle Berry
- 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
- Catherine Black
- Marthe Blackburn
- Annick Blanc
- Sonia Blangiardo
- Katja Blichfeld
- Alexis Bloom
- Lidia Bobrova
- Marusya Bociurkiw
- Emily Kai Bock
- Anna Boden
- Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Sonia Bonspille Boileau
- Sophie Farkas Bolla
- Icíar Bollaín
- Natalya Bondarchuk
- Lisa Bonet
- Sandrine Bonnaire
- Manju Borah
- Uisenma Borchu
- Lizzie Borden
- Joyce Borenstein
- Shonali Bose
- Karen Boswall
- Leyla Bouzid
- Kansas Bowling
- Muriel Box
- Maureen Bradley
- Madeline Brandeis
- Maryann Brandon
- Netalie Braun
- Janicza Bravo
- Anja Breien
- Catherine Breillat
- Zabou Breitman
- Pietra Brettkelly
- Amit Breuer
- Manon Briand
- Zana Briski
- Tricia Brock
- Beth Broderick
- Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers
- Katrina Holden Bronson
- Katherine Brooks
- Julie Brown
- Christene Browne
- Frances Buss Buch
- Miriam Bucher
- Valerie Buhagiar
- Lee Burgess
- Nanette Burstein
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Maria Burton
- Sophia Bush
- Akosua Busia
- Andrea Bussmann
- Mary Ellen Bute
- Oksana Bychkova
C
- Dominique Cabrera
- Sophia Cacciola
- Anne-Marie Cadieux
- Diane Cailhier
- Liz Cairns
- Terril Calder
- Julia Cameron
- Jessica Cameron
- Leah Cameron
- Peg Campbell
- Tisha Campbell-Martin
- Jane Campion
- Kat Candler
- Jordan Canning
- Dyan Cannon
- Kay Cannon
- Dominique Cardona
- Fernanda Cardoso
- Patricia Cardoso
- Maggie Carey
- Edith Carlmar
- Erin Lee Carr
- Niki Caro
- Ana Carolina
- Joan Carr-Wiggin
- Albertina Carri
- Mélanie Carrier
- Shelagh Carter
- Kirsten Carthew
- Alexandra Cassavetes
- Zoe Cassavetes
- Jacqueline Castel
- Cecil Castellucci
- Ruth Caudeli
- Liliana Cavani
- Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
- Jennifer Celotta
- Thea Červenková
- Gurinder Chadha
- Lydia Chagoll
- Ilene Chaiken
- Tanuja Chandra
- Sylvia Chang
- Karen Chapman
- Lyne Charlebois
- Miryam Charles
- Martine Chartrand
- Lilyan Chauvin
- Shu Lea Cheang
- Shirley Cheechoo
- Joan Chen
- Evelyn Spice Cherry
- Mabel Cheung
- Sagari Chhabra
- Patricia Chica
- Abigail Child
- Aisling Chin-Yee
- SJ Chiro
- Karen Cho
- Monia Chokri
- Lisa Cholodenko
- Joyce Chopra
- Julian Chou
- Zero Chou
- Deborah Chow
- Věra Chytilová
- Katerina Cizek
- Julie St. Claire
- Shirley Clarke
- Millefiore Clarkes
- Maja Classen
- Marie Clements
- Jub Clerc
- Susan Cohen
- Yulie Cohen
- Isabel Coixet
- Giada Colagrande
- Fabienne Colas
- Laurie Colbert
- 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
- Helena Cortesina
- Ghyslaine Côté
- Michèle Cournoyer
- Marie-Hélène Cousineau
- Courteney Cox
- Kelly Fremon Craig
- Jill Craigie
- Barbara Cranmer
- Judith Crawley
- Leanna Creel
- Jeanne Crépeau
- Nancy Criss
- Suzanne Crocker
- Emma-Kate Croghan
- Caitlin Cronenberg
- Catherine Crouch
- Fiona Cumming
- Carolynne Cunningham
- Shelley Curtis
- Thirza Cuthand
D
- Cherien Dabis
- Nia DaCosta
- Eva Dahr
- Holly Dale
- Marie-Julie Dallaire
- Tamela D'Amico
- Aimée Danis
- Mireille Dansereau
- Gia Darling
- Joan Darling
- Rima Das
- Julie Dash
- Charlotte Dauphin
- Byambasuren Davaa
- Dorothy Davenport
- Marie Davignon
- Tamra Davis
- Roxann Dawson
- Deborah Day
- Linda Day
- Camille de Casabianca
- Laura de Jonge
- Maria de Medeiros
- Miranda de Pencier
- Charlotte de Turckheim
- Marina de Van
- Autumn de Wilde
- Rowan Deacon
- Josephine Decker
- Tracey Deer
- Regine Deforges
- Donna Deitch
- Katrina del Mar
- Julie Delpy
- Paula Delsol
- Claire Denis
- Pouran Derakhshandeh
- Sophie Deraspe
- Maya Deren
- Dhvani Desai
- Virginie Despentes
- Arundhati Devi
- Suprabha Devi
- Aminder Dhaliwal
- Aishwarya R. Dhanush
- Ramona Diaz
- Katherine Dieckmann
- Susie Dietter
- Molly Dineen
- Nia Dinata
- 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
- Sara Dosa
- Illeana Douglas
- Elissa Down
- Rosvita Dransfeld
- Polly Draper
- Fran Drescher
- Marie Dressler
- Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew
- Kate Drummond
- Julia Ducournau
- Germaine Dulac
- Alma Duncan
- Lena Dunham
- Jan Dunn
- Cheryl Dunye
- Sophie Dupuis
- Marguerite Duras
- Clea DuVall
- Ava DuVernay
- Gaëlle d'Ynglemare
E
- Christine Edzard
- Blessing Effiom Egbe
- Michelle Ehlen
- Debra Eisenstadt
- Jihan El-Tahri
- Jan Eliasberg
- Phyllis Ellis
- Bille Eltringham
- Sheri Elwood
- Erma Elzy-Jones
- Anne Émond
- Esther Eng
- Diane English
- Jackie English
- Ildikó Enyedi
- Nora Ephron
- Marie Epstein
- Abby Epstein
- Anna Eriksson
- Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Sarah Erulkar
- Claudia Morgado Escanilla
- Danishka Esterhazy
- Bang Eun-jin
- Yasmin Evering-Kerr
- Ewa Ewart
- Valie Export
- Tali Shalom Ezer