Gehr’s film Serene Velocity (1970) has been selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry.

At age 33, Benning received MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

In 1991, Van Sant introduced Kier to American audiences with his drama My Own Private Idaho, loosely based on Shakespeare’s “Henry IV.”

With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953.