Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Labeled a firebrand when she first emerged in the 1970s as a leading voice in global cinema, Lina Wertmüller has always been a ...

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Lina Wertmüller scored the first-ever Best Director nomination for a woman at the Academy Awards with her 1975 film, Seven Beauties Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to receive the best director ...

correctionA previous version of this article misattributed a quote to Village Voice film writer Anthony Kaufman. It was another journalist at the Voice who wrote, in an unbylined film preview ...

Five iconoclastic Italian films directed by Lina Wertmüller, who has died aged 93, were huge hits in the mid-1970s on the American art cinema circuit, where they broke box office records for foreign ...

On Thursday, December 9, iconic Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller passed away at the age of 93. She reportedly passed away at her Rome, Italy home. Wertmüller was a director and screenwriter who was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lina Wertmuller poses for a portrait on Oct. 24, 2019 in Los Angeles. Wertmueller, the first woman to receive an Oscar nomination ...

Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, the first Oscar-nominated female director, whose work tackled political and social issues, has died. She was 93. The pioneering director died Thursday at her home in ...

Wertmueller, who won a lifetime achievement Oscar in 2019, died overnight in Rome surrounded by her family, the LaPresse news agency reported, quoting her relatives. Culture Minister Dario ...