So in 2019 we set out to focus the spotlight firmly on women directors.
Why Agnès Varda was the most popular director What the critics had to say about the top 25 Read more about BBC Culture’s 100 greatest films directed by women: And in our first poll of film critics, to find the 100 greatest American films – just two were co-directed by a woman. Twelve films from female directors made it into the 100 greatest films of the 21st Century in 2016, but none of those films featured in the top 20. And the same paucity of female directors has been a feature in each of our annual surveys: in 2017’s poll of the 100 greatest comedies there were four. There was one stark statistic that jumped out from the results of last year’s BBC Culture poll to find the 100 greatest foreign-language films of all time: just four out of that 100 were directed by women.
