Elizabeth Taylor was, the first woman to earn a million dollars for a movie ('Cleopatra' in 1963)
Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most important actresses in Hollywood from its beginnings in the 1940s until she died in 2011. 'Giant' or 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' are some of her most remembered films but there are ones for which he went down in history was, without a doubt, 'Cleopatra'.
The 1963 film was the most expensive in history at the time, and Elizabeth Taylor became the first woman to sign a million-dollar contract, an abysmal number for the time. But, finally, the interpreter came to collect this salary multiplied by seven due to delays in filming, and she had contemplated in her contract to take a percentage of the box office collection.
Rita Moreno, the first Latina woman to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (for 'West Side Story in 1961)
Puerto Rican actress Rita Moreno achieved worldwide fame thanks to her role as Anita in the film 'West Side Story', which Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins adapted from the Broadway musical.
Thanks to this role, Rita became the first Latina to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Although, after this recognition, the actress made a seven-year break in her career to avoid being typecast.
Later, she has become one of the few artists to win the EGOT, having an Oscar, two Emmys, a Grammy, and a Tony to her credit.
Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director in 1977
Lina Wertmüller was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She first made her debut as an actress but at the beginning of the 60s, she already began to carry out her first works as an assistant director, specifically in the Federico Fellini film 8½.
Just a year later, Wertmüller would make her first film as a director with 'I Basilischi'. It was in 1976 when she shot 'Pasqualino Settebellezze' ('Seven Beauties'), for which she became the first woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards.
Dorothy Dandridge, the first black woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in 1955
Dorothy Dandridge was a singer and actress who rose to fame thanks to taking the leading role in the musical film 'Carmen Jones', an adaptation of the Broadway musical which was in turn inspired by Bizet's opera 'Carmen' and which recounted with a predominantly black cast.
Thus, Dandridge became the first black woman to be nominated in the Best Actress category. Before, Hattie McDaniel, the remembered Mammy in 'Gone with the Wind', was the first black woman to be nominated and to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Halle Berry, the first black woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for 'Monster's Ball' in 2001
Halle Berry is one of the biggest faces in Hollywood and in the 2000s she became one of the highest-paid actresses. Coincidentally one of Berry's first leading roles was in the television movie that told the story of Dorothy Dandridge.
A few years later, Halle Berry followed in the footsteps of her predecessor and not only was she nominated for an Oscar for Best Leading Actress, but she became the first black woman to win the statuette for 'Monster's Ball' in 2001.
Penélope Cruz, the first Spaniard to be nominated for the Oscars and win the Hollywood Academy Award
Pulling home Penélope Cruz became the first Spanish actress to be nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Leading Actress for her role as Raimunda in the Pedro Almodóvar film 'Volver', in 2007. Then the award It was for Hellen Miren for 'The Queen' but only 2 years later, in 2009, she would become the first Spaniard to win an Oscar when she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona', a Woody Allen film.
Penelope has been nominated two more times for an Oscar. in 2001 for her role in 'Nine', and also for Best Supporting Actress. And, in 2022, for Best Actress for 'Parallel Mothers'.
Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director for 'The Hurt Locker in 2010
You have to go back to the year 2010 to see a woman win the Oscar for Best Director. The lucky one was the filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow who won the award for her film 'The Hurt Locker' ('On Hostile Land'). And it is that these categories are the most difficult to see a woman among the nominees and, much more among the winners.
