Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to score a Best Director nomination at the Academy Awards, died on Thursday in Italy. She was 93.
Fellini hired Wertmüller as an assistant director on “8½” in 1963, the same year in which she made her directorial feature debut with “The Basilisks,” which went on to win her her first award for Best Director at the Locarno film festival.
WilliamScurry She had an oeuvre, I’ll give her that.
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BoldenSkip RIP I was literally just reading about her four days ago - no idea why - was researching something and it led me to her.
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