Weekly Feminist Film Question: Who Is Your Favorite Female Film Director?

Hey film lovers! Here’s this week’s feminist film question. Who is your favorite female film director?  Here’s what you said (along with some of their films):

Chantal Akerman — Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles; A Couch in New York; The Captive; Tomorrow We Move

Gillian Armstrong — Little Women, My Brilliant Career, Oscar and Lucinda, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Charlotte Gray

Dorothy Arzner — Dance, Girl, Dance; The Wild Party; The Bride Wore Red; Christopher Strong; Working Girls

Kathryn Bigelow — The Hurt Locker, Strange Days, Point Break, Near Dark, The Weight of Water, Blue Steel

Jane Campion — The Piano, Bright Star, Sweetie, In the Cut, Holy Smoke!, An Angel at My Table, Portrait of a Lady

Niki Caro — Whale Rider, North Country

Brenda Champman — Brave, The Prince of Egypt

Lisa Cholodenko — The Kids Are All Right, High Art, Laurel Canyon

Sofia Coppola — Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, The Virgin Suicides, Somewhere

Maya Deren — Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, A Study in Choreography for the Camera, Rituals in Transfigured Time, Meditation on Violence

Ava DuVernay — I Will Follow, Middle of Nowhere

Nora Ephron — Sleepless in Seattle, Julie & Julia, You’ve Got Mail, This Is My Life, Mixed Nuts

Su Friedrich — Damned If You Don’t, Gently Down the Stream, The Odds of Recovery, Hide and Seek, The Ties That Bind

Debra Granik — Winter’s Bone

Alice Guy-Blaché — Algie the Miner, La Fée aux Choux, Matrimony’s Speed Limit

Mary Harron — American Psycho, The Moth Diaries, I Shot Andy Warhol, The Notorious Bettie Page

Amy Heckerling — Clueless, Vamps, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who’s Talking, National Lampoon’s European Vacation

Nicole Holofcener — Please Give, Friends with Money, Lovely & Amazing, Walking and Talking

Matia Karrell — Behind the Red Door, Once Upon a Wedding

Kasi Lemmons — Eve’s Bayou, The Caveman’s Valentine, Talk to Me

Ida Lupino — Outrage, The Trouble with Angels, The Bigamist, The Hitch-Hiker, Never Fear

Deepa Mehta — Fire, Earth, Water, Heaven on Earth

Nancy Meyers — It’s Complicated, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday, What Women Want, The Parent Trap

Mira Nair — Monsoon Wedding, Amelia, The Namesake, Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala

Kimberly Peirce — Boys Don’t Cry, Stop-Loss 

Sarah Polley — Take This Waltz, Away from Her 

Sally Potter — Orlando, Yes, The Man Who Cried, The Tango Lesson

Yvonne Rainer — The Man Who Envied Women, MURDER and Murder, Privilege

Lynne Ramsay — We Need to Talk about Kevin, Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar

Dee Rees — Pariah, Eventual Salvation

Kelly Reichardt — Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy, River of Grass, Old Joy

Angela Robinson — D.E.B.S., Herbie: Fully Loaded

Barbra Streisand — Yentl, The Prince of Tides, The Mirror Has Two Faces