Patricia Lea ``Patty'' Jenkins is a film director.
Monster is a 2003 crime drama film about serial killer Aileen Wuornos , a former prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men ( she was not tried for a seventh murder ) in the late 1980s and early 1990s . Patricia Lea `` Patty '' Jenkins ( born July 23 , 1971 ) is an American film director and screenwriter . She is known for directing Monster ( 2003 ) and Wonder Woman ( 2017 ) . Wonder Woman is a 2017 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name .