3 Women Are Nominated For Best Direction at the VMAs And Not One Had a Co-Director: That’s a First!
billboard.comTaylor Swift for “The Man,” Billie Eilish for “xanny” and Hannah Lux Davis for Doja Cat’s “Say So.” It’s only the second time in the VMAs’ 37-year history that three women have been nominated in this category in the same year—and it’s the first time it’s happened where none of the female directors had a male co-director.Female directors had three of the five nominees in this category in 2005, but only Floria Sigismondi was nominated for a clip she directed by herself—The White Stripes’ “Blue Orchid.” The other two female nominees that year worked with male co-directors.
Diane Martel teamed with Francis Lawrence to direct Jennifer Lopez’s “Get It Right”; Missy Elliott teamed with Dave Meyers to direct “Lose Control.”Davis and Swift were also.
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