Women dominate Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch list for 2019. Women represent 60 percent of slots on the annual ranking, which recognizes up-and-coming filmmaking talent. Olivia Wilde (“Booksmart”), Pippa Bianco (“Share”), Alejandra Márquez Abella (“The Good Girls”), Tayarisha Poe (“Selah and the Spades”), Lulu Wang (“The Farewell”), and duo Bert & Bertie (“Troupe Zero”) all made the cut. They and the other selectees will be honored at Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 4, and will be covered in profiles in the January 1 edition of Variety.

A team of Variety editors, critics, and reporters selected the directors based on the strength of their work, which is sometimes screened as works-in-progress.

Expected sometime next year, “Booksmart” is actress Wilde’s feature directorial debut. The film centers on two overachieving high school seniors who, ahead of graduation, decide to make up for all the fun they’ve missed out on in one night. Wilde’s more recent screen credits include “Life Itself” and “Vinyl.”

Bianco’s “Share” stars Poorna Jagannathan as a mother seeking justice after an explicit video of her teen daughter is leaked. It’s based on Bianco’s 2015 short of the same name. She also wrote and directed the documentary short “Picturing Barbara Kruger.”

As Márquez Abella told us, “The Good Girls” “portrays a wealthy woman’s social decay. It’s also a film about female anxiety, and about how even ‘powerful’ women are powerless in our system.” Feature “Semana Santa” and doc “Mal de tierra” are among her other directorial efforts.

“Selah and the Spades” is the first feature from Poe, a Sundance Institute alumna. Set at a Philadelphia boarding school, the film follows the school’s most powerful group and what happens when a new student tries to unseat its “hammer,” Selah.

“Crazy Rich Asians” breakout Awkwafina stars in Wang’s “The Farewell.” The dark comedy centers on a family who quickly organizes a wedding after learning their grandmother only has a short time to live.

Set in 1977, Bert & Bertie’s “Troupe Zero” sees a young misfit girl putting together a rag tag team to compete for a chance to be included in NASA’s Golden Record. Viola Davis and Allison Janney are among the stars.

Four women made Variety’s 2018 Directors to Watch list: Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”), Chloé Zhao (“The Rider”), Augustine Frizzell (“Never Goin’ Back”), and Claire McCarthy (“Ophelia”).