With A Dry White Season in 1989, Euzhan Palcy became the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film. She has been fighting the system ever since, and leading the way for a new generation of ...

Euzhan Palcy once said: “With my camera, I try to heal the wounds created by history,” and for almost 50 years she has done just that. For the creation of seminal works such as Sugar Cane Alley, A Dry ...

The first Black director to win a César Award. The first Black director to win an award at the Venice Film Festival. The first Black woman director of a film produced by a major Hollywood studio. For ...

The director, the first Black female to helm a studio picture, says she owes it all the Hollywood icon. By Euzhan Palcy When people ask how I, as a young woman from Martinique, ended up in Hollywood, ...

As one of its final acts, the current Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted honorary Oscars to directors Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy and songwriter Diane ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Director Euzhan Palcy has made history more than a few times in her four decades in the movie business. She was the first Black woman to direct a film produced by a major studio ...

Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Euzhan Palcy and Peter Weir will be celebrated with honorary Oscars at the Governors Awards. None of the four have ever won an Oscar before. While Fox has never been ...

Her activism was sparked at age 11. This story is one in a series of Black History Month stories that explores the role of resistance to oppression in the Black community. Euzhan Palcy found success ...

The event brought in seemingly all of Hollywood, including Oscar frontrunners Michelle Yeoh and Colin Farrell, to honor four film icons. “Wow, what a room! Who wouldn’t want to be here tonight?” was ...

With the ‘Dry White Season’ director set to receive an honorary Oscar at the Nov. 19 Governors Awards, the filmmaking icon reflects on the triumphs and roadblocks she met along the way. By Seth ...