When did the first woman win Best Director?

When Kathryn Bigelow won for "The Hurt Locker," she became the first woman — after 82 years of Oscars being handed out — to take home the top directing prize. As of 2018, Bigelow was only the fourth of five women to be nominated for Best Director in Oscar's long, dude-filled history.

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