Director, screenwriter, film marketer and distributor Ava DuVernay has shattered a few glass ceilings in her time. She’s covered stories from the O.J. Simpson trial with CBS News, to the documentary commissioned by ESPN, Venus Vs., which covers Venus Williams’ fight for equal prize money in ESPN’s Nine for IX Series. DuVernay also directed Selma, which was released in 2014. The film is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches. Selma was nominated for Best Picture and won Best Original Song. In 2016 she directed the documentary 13TH, which centers on race in the US criminal justice system. 13TH has earned a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Oscars, making DuVernay the first black woman to be nominated as a director by the academy in a feature category. DuVernay’s next film, A Wrinkle in Time, reportedly has a budget exceeding $100 million, making DuVernay the first black woman to direct a live-action film with a budget of that size.