Euzhan Palcy (born January 13, 1958) is a film director, writer and producer from Martinique, French West Indies. When she directed a A Dry White Season in 1989, she was the first black woman director of a film produced by a major Hollywood studio (MGM). She is also the only woman filmmaker to have directed Marlon Brando, whom she brought back to the screen after a gap of nine years. Palcy is the first black director (male or female) to direct an actor to an Oscar nomination and the first black director to win a César Award, the highest French film award. She is also the first black director to win a Venice Film Festival Award (Silver Lion).