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Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of various honorary awards including the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025.
Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton Hall was an American actress. Her career spanned more than five decades, during which she rose to prominence in the New Hollywood movement. She collaborated frequently with Woody Allen, appearing in eight of his films. Keaton's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, along with nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She was honored with the Film at Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 2007 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017.
George Miller
Australian filmmaker (born 1945)
Sondra Locke
American actress (1944–2018)
Diablo Cody
American screenwriter and author (born 1978)
Julia Ducournau
French film director and screenwriter
Catherine Breillat
French actress, film director, writer and screenwriter (born 1948)
Annie Sprinkle
American sex educator and artist (born 1954)
Gillian Armstrong
film director
Barbara Hammer
American filmmaker (1939-2019)
Hossein Rajabian
Iranian filmmaker, writer and photographer
Elise Bauman
Canadian actress
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
American actress and filmmaker (born 1974)
Anna Biller
American filmmaker
Carole Roussopoulos
French-Swiss feminist and film director (1945-2009)
Lizzie Borden
American filmmaker (born 1958)
Lynn Hershman Leeson
American artist and filmmaker (born 1941)
Katinka Heyns
South African actress
Zorica Jevremović
Serbian theatre and video director (1948–2023)
Hanna Azoulay Hasfari
Israeli actor and screenwriter
Mako Idemitsu
experimental video art and film artist (born 1940)
Kat Abughazaleh
Katherine Marie Abughazaleh, known professionally as Kat Abu, is an American journalist, social media influencer, and politician. Abughazaleh rose to prominence while working at Media Matters for America, where she gained popularity for her criticism of Fox News personality Tucker Carlson. Abughazaleh's writing has been published by Mother Jones and The New Republic. A progressive and democratic socialist member of the Democratic Party, she was a candidate for the 2026 United States House of Representatives primary election in Illinois's 9th congressional district, placing second behind Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss.
Katharina Mückstein
Austrian film director and screenwriter
Rosalind Nashashibi
English artist (born 1973)
Huang Shuqin
Chinese film director
Mady Saks
Dutch film director and screenwriter (1941-2006)
Michelle Parkerson
filmmaker, academic
Lis Rhodes
British filmmaker (born 1942)
Phyllis Birkby
architect (1932-1994)
Peggy Ahwesh
American filmmaker (born 1954)