
Many years when award season rolls around, we find ourselves eye-rolling at how few women received recognition for their work as filmmakers. Thankfully, the 2025 Golden Globe nominations featured pleasant surprises in that category.
During the 2025 Golden Globe nominations, announced on Monday, December 9, French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat and Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia garnered noms for their work on The Substance and All We Imagine as Light, respectively, meaning that women were one-third of the nominations in the Best Director category.