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Distribution of winners in the Best Director category of the Oscar Awards between 1927 and 2025, by gender

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March 2025

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Worldwide

Survey time period

1927 - 2025

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Percentage of Oscar-winning directors by gender 1927-2025

Published by ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Research Department, Dec 18, 2025

This statistic presents the percentage distribution of winners in the Best Director category at the Oscars between 1927 and 2025, based on gender. During this period, only *** percent of the winners in this category were women. Specifically, this percentage corresponds to director Kathryn Bigelow, who won in 2010 for the film Hurt Locker, Chloé Zhao, who won in 2021 for her work on Nomadland, a feature that also won the Oscar for Best Picture, and Jane Campion, the latest to join this small group in 2022 for her work on The Power of the Dog.

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