With the box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" approaching 5 billion, Jia Ling has become the highest-grossing female director in China, and it is only one step away from the throne of the world's first female director at the box office. Occupying that throne is Patty Jenkins, the director of Wonder Woman.
The super British film "Wonder Woman" released in 2017 has a global box office of 5.3 billion yuan. Although the two "Frozen" and "Captain Marvel" also surpassed the box office, neither of them was the independent director of the female director.
Patty Jenkins was born on July 24, 1971 in California, usa, and graduated from Cooper Union College and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts. Jenkins has been interested in storytelling and the visual arts since childhood. In junior high school, she got her first job in film: as a production assistant in a documentary directed by a friend of her mother's.
In 2003, Patti Jenkins directed his first film, The Witch Head, based on true events, about a prostitute with a rough life who becomes a serial killer who kills people without blinking because she pursues love. Charlize Theron won the 76th Academy Awards, the 54th Berlin International Film Festival and the 61st Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for The Witch Head, and the film was nominated for the Golden Bear for Best Picture at the 54th Berlin Film Festival.
In 2011, Patti Jenkins directed a pilot episode of the crime television series Murder, about a series of murders that took place in Seattle, for which Jenkins won the 64th Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director of a Drama Series and was nominated for the 63rd Emmy Award for Best Director in a Drama Series.
Also in 2011, Patti Jenkins co-directed Five with actresses Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore, Alicia Keys, and Penelope Spirius, starring Jennifer Goodwin, Lindesi von Seca, patricia Clarkson, and others, about the troubles of breast cancer on the lives of ordinary people.
In 2017, Patty Jenkins' superhero sci-fi action film Wonder Woman was released, which grossed $821.74 million worldwide and won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Performance Feature Film; Jenkins won the Focus Award at the 89th National Critics Association Awards and was shortlisted for Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" for the film.
Patti Jenkins is the woman behind Wonder Woman, and in 2020, she was the director, writer, and producer of Wonder Woman 1984. Jenkins and lead actors Gayle Gadot, Chris Pine, and Kristen Wegg are on set.
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