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Elizabeth Banks: Pitch Perfect 2, Charlie's Angels.
Kathryn Bigelow: Still the only woman to have won an Oscar for Best Director, currently. I haven’t seen The Hurt Locker or Zero Dark Thirty but maybe I should?
Niki Caro: Whale Rider, The Zookeeper's Wife, and the upcoming live-action Mulan!
Ava DuVernay: I’ve only seen A Wrinkle In Time, which unfortunately was bad, but Selma and her various docs and series are highly acclaimed.
Nisha Ganatra: Late Night and the upcoming The High Note.
Debra Granik: I’m scared to watch J. Lawr skin a squirrel in Winter’s Bone, tbh. Leave No Trace has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Catherine Hardwicke: Yes, she is responsible for Twilight, but also made other movies including Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, and Miss You Already.
Leslye Headland: Sleeping with Other People was not bad and I could see myself watching Bachelorette someday on a flight.
Amy Heckerling: I cannot stress enough how much I enjoy Clueless. She also directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, National Lampoon's European Vacation, and I Could Never Be Your Woman.
Marielle Heller: Can You Ever Forgive Me? and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
Patty Jenkins: Wonder Woman could have been a sexist disaster in some thoughtless dude’s hands. Patty did us right. She also made Monster in 2003.
Tamara Jenkins: I watched The Savages ages ago and want to watch Private Life.
Jennifer Kent: Between The Babadook and The Nightingale, she is doing the most.
Karyn Kusama: Jennifer's Body, The Invitation, and others.
Jennifer Lee: I wasn’t sure about adding her since she’s only co-directed Frozen franchise movies, but Frozen and Frozen II each made over a billion dollars so I think it’s all good.
Penny Marshall: Big and A League of Their Own, classics I have yet to see!
Rebecca Miller: Maggie’s Plan is on my to-watch list, but she has some other movies I’ve heard of (The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee).
Mira Nair: I've watched Monsoon Wedding based on a friend's rec but you're probably more familiar with The Namesake.
Kimberly Peirce: Boys Don’t Cry, Stop-Loss, and the 2013 Carrie remake.
Gina Prince-Bythewood: I haven't seen but have heard of Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, and Beyond the Lights.
Lynne Ramsay: We Need To Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here both sound too intense for me, tbh, but good for her.
Dee Rees: Probably best known for Mudbound. Her TV film Bessie was at the time the most watched HBO original film of all time, which is cool.
Gillian Robespierre: Wrote/directed Obvious Child and Landline, both of which I enjoyed quite a bit.
Marjane Satrapi: She’s probably better known as a graphic novelist, but she directed the film adaptation of her graphic memoir Persepolis (which I highly recommend, fyi). She also directed a tiny Ryan Reynolds movie called The Voices which Amazon Prime kept trying to recommend to me a while back.
Lorene Scafaria: Hustlers depicted the impact of the 2008 recession on Wall Street bros better than just about any other movie. She also directed Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.
Lone Scherfig: I really liked An Education; probably won’t see One Day because of Anne Hathway’s questionable British accent.
Céline Sciamma: Girlhood and Portrait of A Lady On Fire are both on my list!
Lynn Shelton: RIP. Your Sister's Sister and Laggies were both lovely. I missed Sword of Trust at Sidewalk Film Festival last year.
Barbra Streisand: I didn't realize she directed Yentl, The Prince of Tides, and The Mirror Has Two Faces. What can't she do??
Sam Taylor-Johnson: Nowhere Boy and Fifty Shades of Grey. Yeah, at no point did I say I was listing out good movies, just ones I’d heard of.
Julie Taymor: I loved Across the Universe when it came out in high school. I’m curious about Frida (2002).
Nora Twomey: The Secret of Kells and The Breadwinner have such different settings that I didn't realize they were made by the same studio, much less by the same director.
Agnes Varda: I’ve only seen her doc Faces Places, which is a delight. But she’s famous for French films like Cléo from 5 to 7 (1961).
Lana & Lilly Wachowski: I actually haven’t seen anything they’ve made, but we all know about The Matrix series. I should correct this knowledge gap.
Chloe Zhao: I don’t know why I know about The Rider but I do. Next up for her is The Eternals which everyone on Earth will watch (I don’t even like Marvel but I will too).
For more, I recommend this Twitter thread that lists out movies by streaming sites! It may not be currently accurate though given that streaming availability changes all the time.
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