When Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for Best Director in 2010, she said in her acceptance speech, "This is, again, the moment of a lifetime." Bigelow was the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar in the then 82-year history of the Academy Awards. Bigelow won for her film "The Hurt Locker." The award was monumental in Bigelow's life, and as it turns out, the lives of everyone watching as well: Bigelow would be only one of three women to ever win an Oscar for Best Director. The other two, Chloé Zhao and Jane Campion, received their awards in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Yes, two out of the mere three directing Oscars for women in the now 95 years of the Academy Awards were awarded only in the last two years.
