Yesterday, Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman ever to be nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards. This richly deserved achievement arrives 41 years after Lina Wertmüller made history as the first female nominee in the category for her Italian film, “Seven Beauties.” She was followed by Jane Campion in 1994 for “The Piano,” Sofia Coppola in 2004 for “Lost in Translation” and Kathryn Bigelow—who remains the only woman to win the award—for “The Hurt Locker” in 2010.

A mere five female nominees over a span of ninety years is a flat-out embarrassment, to say the least. Thus, I have decided to multiply the number of Oscar ceremonies by two and present 180 essential films directed by women. The titles listed below, in alphabetical order, are only the tip of the iceberg, comprised of everything from game-changing landmarks to life-long favorites. Click on each embedded link, and you will be directed to an article written by your’s truly—a review, interview, festival dispatch or best of the year list—associated with that film or director.

There are films of all kinds represented here—features and shorts, fictional narratives and documentaries, live-action and animated pictures, movies that have made me cry tears of despair, of laughter, of catharsis. In the words of the brilliant filmmaker, Kimberly Peirce, “Times up. Time to represent, hire, recognize and enjoy content made by and with women. (And all aspects of women).”

And these films and filmmakers are a great place to start…

“After the Wedding,” Susanne Bier

“Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” Alison Klayman

“Alba,” Ana Cristina Barragán

“American Fable,” Anne Hamilton

“American Psycho,” Mary Harron

“American Splendor,” Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini

“Amorous,” Joanna Coates

“The Armor of Light,” Abigail Disney

“Audrie & Daisy,” Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk

“The Babadook,” Jennifer Kent

“Bastard Out of Carolina,” Anjelica Huston

“Beach Rats,” Eliza Hittman

“Belle,” Amma Asante

“Bend it Like Beckham,” Gurinder Chadha

“Beyond the Lights,” Gina Prince-Bythewood

“Billy Madison,” Tamra Davis

“Bobbi Jene,” Elvira Lind

“Boys Don’t Cry,” Kimberly Peirce

“The Breadwinner,” Nora Twomey

“Bright Star,” Jane Campion

“Broken English,” Zoe Cassavetes

“Buster’s Mal Heart,” Sarah Adina Smith

“Cairo Time,” Ruba Nadda

“Casting JonBenet,” Kitty Green

“Children of a Lesser God,” Randa Haines

“Children’s Games,” Zora Neale Hurston

“Circumstance,” Maryam Keshavarz

“Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras

“Cleo from 5 to 7,” Agnès Varda

“Cloud Atlas,” Lana & Lily Wachowski

“Clueless,” Amy Heckerling

“Communion,” Anna Zamecka

“Concrete Night,” Pirjo Honkasalo

“Daisies,” Věra Chytilová

“Dance, Girl, Dance,” Dorothy Arzner

“Daughters of the Dust,” Julie Dash

“Deliver Us from Evil,” Amy Berg

“The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” Marielle Heller

“The Dish & the Spoon,” Alison Bagnall

“Dreamcatcher,” Kim Longinotto

“The Edge of Seventeen,” Kelly Fremon Craig

“Edith+Eddie,” Laura Checkoway

“An Education,” Lone Scherfig

“Elegy,” Isabel Coixet

“Enough Said,” Nicole Holofcener

“Eve’s Bayou,” Kasi Lemmons

“Fast Rodney, Who Was On His Way Out,” Rachel Berry

“Fat Girl,” Catherine Breillat

“First They Killed My Father,” Angelina Jolie

“Fish Tank,” Andrea Arnold

“The Fits,” Anna Rose Holmer

“Frida,” Julie Taymor

“Frozen,” Jennifer Lee & Chris Buck

“Frozen River,” Courtney Hunt

“Future Weather,” Jenny Deller

“Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,” Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz

“Girlfight,” Karyn Kusama

“Girlfriends,” Claudia Weill

“A Girl Like Her,” Amy S. Weber

“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,” Ana Lily Amirpour

“Goodnight, Mommy,” Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala

“Green,” Sophia Takal

“Gregory Go Boom,” Janicza Bravo

“Grow Up, Tony Phillips,” Emily Hagins

“The Heartbreak Kid,” Elaine May

“Higher Ground,” Vera Farmiga

“The Holy Girl,” Lucretia Martel

“Home for the Holidays,” Jodie Foster

“Honeymoon,” Leigh Janiak

“Hooligan Sparrow,” Nanfu Wang

“Humpday,” Lynn Shelton

“The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow

“Hysteria,” Tanya Wexler

“i hate myself :),” Joanna Arnow

“In Between,” Maysaloun Hamoud

“In Bloom,” Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross

“India’s Daughter,” Leslee Udwin

“Into the Forest,” Patricia Rozema

“Jesus Camp,” Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady

“Jesus’ Son,” Alison Maclean

“Je Tu Il Elle,” Chantal Ackerman

“Killing Jesús,” Laura Ortega

“Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig

“La Fée aux Choux,” Alice Guy-Blaché

“Layla M.”, Mijke de Jong

“A League of Their Own,” Penny Marshall

“A Light Beneath Their Feet,” Valerie Weiss

“Little Miss Sunshine,” Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton

“Little Women,” Gillian Armstrong

“Lore,” Cate Shortland

“The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum,” Margarethe von Trotta & Volker Schlöndorff

“Lourdes,” Jessica Hausner

“Loving Couples,” Mia Zetterling

“Maison du bonheur,” Sofia Bohdanowicz

“Maudie,” Aisling Walsh

“Me and You and Everyone We Know,” Miranda July

“A Mere Breath,” Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan

“Meshes of the Afternoon,” Maya Deren

“Monster,” Patty Jenkins

“Mustang,” Deniz Gamze Ergüven

“My Art,” Laurie Simmons

“Newtown,” Kim A. Snyder

“The Night Porter,” Liliana Cavani

“Novitiate,” Maggie Betts

“Nowhere in Africa,” Caroline Link

“Obit,” Vanessa Gould

“Obvious Child,” Gillian Robespierre

“Olive Kitteridge,” Lisa Cholodenko

“On Beauty,” Joanna Rudnick

“Orlando,” Sally Potter

“The Other Son,” Lorraine Lévy

“The Parent Trap,” Nancy Meyers

“Pariah,” Dee Rees

“Paw, Boy of Two Worlds,” Astrid Henning-Jensen

“Pay It Forward,” Mimi Leder

“Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud

“Polina,” Valérie Müller & Angelin Preljocaj

“Portrait of Jason,” Shirley Clarke

“The Prince of Egypt,” Brenda Chapman & Steve Hickner & Simon Wells

“The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” Rebecca Miller

“Proudly She Marches,” Jane Marsh

“Radical Grace,” Rebecca Parrish

“Ratcatcher,” Lynne Ramsey

“Raw,” Julia Ducournau

“Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014,” Shari Cookson

“Return,” Liza Johnson

“RPG,” Sadie Rogers

“The Runaways,” Floria Sigismondi

“Runner” Clare Cooney

“Salaam Bombay!”, Mira Nair

“The Savages,” Tamara Jenkins

“The Secret Garden,” Agnieszka Holland

“Seven Beauties,” Lina Wertmüller

“Sherrybaby,” Laurie Collyer

“Ship Dreams,” Corinne Anderson

“Shoals,” Melika Bass

“A Simple Life,” Ann Hui

“Sita Sings the Blues,” Nina Paley

“The Smiling Madame Beudet,” Germaine Dulac

“The Snowman,” Dianne Jackson & Jimmy T. Murakami

“Somewhere,” Sofia Coppola

“Sonita,” Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

“The Space Between,” Amy Jo Johnson

“Stories We Tell,” Sarah Polley

“Sun Don’t Shine,” Amy Seimetz

“Tallulah,” Sian Heder

“They Also Serve,” Ruby Grierson

“Things to Come,” Mia Hansen-Løve

“Thirteen,” Catherine Hardwicke

“Thirteen Conversations About One Thing,” Jill Sprecher

“13th,” Ava DuVernay

“This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous,” Barbara Kopple

“Tiny Furniture,” Lena Dunham

“To Be a Woman,” Jill Craigie

“Toni Erdmann,” Maren Ade

“Triumph of the Will,” Leni Riefenstahl

“The Trouble with Angels,” Ida Lupino

“24 Weeks,” Anne Zohra Berrached

“Unexpected,” Kris Swanberg

“A Very Brady Sequel,” Arlene Sanford

“Virgin,” Deborah Kampmeier

“Wadjda,” Haifaa Al-Mansour

“Waitress,” Adrienne Shelly

“Water Lillies,” Céline Sciamma

“Wayne’s World,” Penelope Spheeris

“We Live in Public,” Ondi Timoner

“Wendy and Lucy,” Kelly Reichardt

“Wet Bum,” Lindsay MacKay

“Whale Rider,” Niki Caro

“Where Are My Children?”, Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley

“The Whistleblower,” Larysa Kondracki

“White Girl,” Elizabeth Wood

“White Material,” Claire Denis

“Whose Streets?”, Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis

“Winter’s Bone,” Debra Granik

“The Wolfpack,” Crystal Moselle

“Working Girls,” Lizzie Borden

“Yentl,” Barbra Streisand

“You’ve Got Mail,” Nora Ephron

“You Won’t Miss Me,” Ry Russo-Young