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Director
Patty Jenkins
Defining Films
Profile
Patricia Lea Jenkins (born July 24, 1971) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. She has directed the feature films Monster (2003), Wonder Woman (2017), and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). For the film Monster, she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and the Franklin J. Schaffner Award of the American Film Institute (AFI). For the pilot episode of the series The Killing (2011), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and the Directors Guild of America awa
In Their Own Words
I looked at Superman — which is my favorite film of all time — I looked at Seven Samurai, I looked at Casablanca, The French Connection, Raiders of the Lost Ark. And I had a lot of different sources of inspiration.
On Wonder Woman · Fandango (Erik Davis interview)