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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quentin Tarantino once said of Wertmüller: "She was the first female director I knew by name." Lina Wertmüller, the legendary Italian filmmaker and the first woman to be nominated for the Academy ...

The writer-director, a two-time Oscar nominee, combined politics, sex and humor in such 1970s classics as 'Swept Away,' 'Seven Beauties' and 'The Seduction of Mimi.' By Duane Byrge, Mike Barnes Lina ...

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 ...

Harvey Weinstein is an occasional contributor to Deadline when he has something on his mind. With Oscar season right around the corner and the strong work of female directors front and center, ...

Actor Giancarlo Giannini’s collaboration with writer-director Lina Wertmüller, who died Dec. 9 at age 93, spans nine films, including raucous sex comedy and social satire “The Seduction of Mimì” — his ...