Wertmüller was the first female director ever nominated for an Academy Award

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• Italian film director Lina Wertmüller was the first female director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in the history of the Academy Awards. In 1976 for "Seven Beauties".*

• 1972 "marked the beginning of Wertmüller's golden age"** with The Seduction of Mimì (Mimì Metallurgico Ferito nell'Onore) 

• Received an Honorary Academy Award in 2019 for Lifetime Achievement.

• Met her mentor, director Federico Fellini, through a school friend's husband (Marcello Mastroianni)

• Was a co-writer on Zeffirelli's 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon.

See three of Lina Wertmüller's "golden age" films at CinemaItalia Cascais Film Festival:

1972: Seduction of Mimi (Mimí Metalurgico Ferito nell'Onore)

1973: Love and Anarchy (D'Amore e D'Anarchia)

1974: Swept Away (Travolta da un Insolito Destino nell'Azzuro Mare)

For Film Times and Dates

*https://www.newsweek.com/oscars-women-directors-winner-nominated-best-director-academy-awards-1576111

** Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey (1996). The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell; British Film Institute. pp. 124–126. ISBN 0-304-34197-5. OCLC 35683590