There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
Salma HayekI said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.
Salma Hayek