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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lina Wertmuller poses for a portrait on Oct. 24, 2019 in Los Angeles. Wertmueller, the first woman to receive an Oscar nomination ...

Five iconoclastic Italian films directed by Lina Wertmüller, who has died aged 93, were huge hits in the mid-1970s on the American art cinema circuit, where they broke box office records for foreign ...

correctionA previous version of this article misattributed a quote to Village Voice film writer Anthony Kaufman. It was another journalist at the Voice who wrote, in an unbylined film preview ...

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 ...

ROME, Italy — Pioneering Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for directing, has died at 93. Wertmüller died overnight in Rome surrounded by her ...

Wertmüller, the first female Oscar-nominated best director, will be honored with both an honorary Oscar and a star on the Walk of Fame this month. By Ariston Anderson Lina Wertmüller, the director and ...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s provocative filmmaker Lina Wertmueller, whose potent mix of sex and politics in “Swept Away” and “Seven Beauties” made her the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for ...

ROME (AP) - Italy's provocative filmmaker Lina Wertmueller, whose potent mix of sex and politics in 'œSwept Away'ť and 'œSeven Beauties'ť made her the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for ...