Dec. 9 (UPI) --Italian Filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, who was the first woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Oscars, died Thursday at the age of 93. The Italian Film Archive confirmed Wertmüller ...

In the still American-led realm of the Academy Awards, it's unusual for the helmer of a film not in the English language to score a Best Director nomination. It's far rarer still, meanwhile, for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lina Wertmuller, who combined sexual warfare and leftist politics in the provocative, genre-defying films “The Seduction of Mimi,” “Swept Away” and “Seven Beauties,” which established her as one of ...

The first woman to ever receive an Oscar nomination in directing, Lina Wertmuller, died on Wednesday. Wertmuller received an Oscar nomination for her 1976 film “Seven Beauties.” Wertmuller is survived ...

It's been a long time since Lina Wertmuller, the Italian director of "Seven Beauties" and the original "Swept Away," captured the fancy of American art-house audiences. In the mid-'70s, she briefly ...