Speaking to The Vulture, Campion herself chimed in on the matter, lamenting the lack of female winners of the festival’s most coveted prize.

“Too long! Twenty-four years! And before that, there was no one. It’s insane,” she said. “And I’m really annoyed that the director-ess from Toni Erdmann [Maren Ade] didn’t win last time. I thought, Finally, a buddy. No. No! There’s no more guys winning. That’s it. It’s just going to be women winning from now on.”

The lack of female directors working at the top of the industry is notable, with a recent study by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism finding that between 2007 and 2015, only 4.1% of directors of top films were female.

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