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BAFTA Smashes Record for Female Director Nominees

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The 2021 shortlist for the BAFTA best director award features the highest number of female filmmakers —by some margin — in the British Academy's 74-year history.

Just two would have been enough to take the record, but on Tuesday four were nominated out of a total of six nominees, with Shannon Murphy (Babyteeth), Chloe Zhao (Nomadland), Jasmine Zbanic (Quo Vadis, Aida?) and Sarah Gavron (Rocks) shortlisted, alongside Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) and Lee Isaac Chung (Minari).

Tuesday's announcement ends an almost decade-long streak of all-male nominees that has last since 2012, when Kathryn Bigelow wasnominated for Zero Dark Thirty.

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