Anna Biller

Awards & Honours

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Anna Biller's The Love Witch received a Special Citation from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her visionary reinvention of the Technicolor melodrama. The film won Best Feature and Best Director at the Sitges Film Festival, and Biller took home the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Screenplay. Her work is frequently taught in university film studies courses as a key text on the female gaze and feminist horror. In 2019, The Love Witch was released by the Criterion Collection, a rare honor for a contemporary independent film.

AwardsAnna Biller has won several awards for The Love Witch, including the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Screenplay, the Sitges Film Festival's Best Feature and Best Director, the International Horror Guild Award for Best Motion Picture, and a Special Citation from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Honours & Distinctions

Criterion Collection Release

Criterion Collection·2019

The Love Witch was released on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection.

Rankings & Lists

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Best Films of 2016

The New York Times (Glenn Kenny)·2016

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Best Films of 2016

The New Yorker (Richard Brody)·2016

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Best Films of 2016

Sight & Sound (British Film Institute)·2016

Magazine Covers

Filmmaker Magazine

Fall 2016

The Female Gaze

BOMB Magazine

2017

Anna Biller: The Love Witch

Records & Feats

First film released by Criterion Collection directed by a woman that was entirely self-funded and self-produced

Career Milestone·2019

The Love Witch (2016) was released by the Criterion Collection in 2019, a rare honor for a contemporary independent film made outside the studio system.