Chantal Anne Akerman (French: [ʃɑ̃tal akɛʁman]; 6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York.She is best known for films such as Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), News from Home (1977), and Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978); the first of these was ranked the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound magazine's 2022 "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time" critics poll, making her first woman to top this poll.According to multiple critics and film scholars, Akerman's influence on feminist and avant-garde cinema is substantial, with at least one scholar calling her "one of the most significant directors of our times."