Five Oscar nominations this morning for Promising Young Woman place Emerald Fennell’s searing and darkly comic drama about a woman avenging her friend after a sexual assault into confirmed frontrunner status for this year’s Academy Awards.
For Fennell and Best Actress nominee Carey Mulligan, it’s a moment of celebration, but also a chance to reflect, after a weekend in their native UK in which violence by men against women has dominated headlines, following the killing of Sarah Everard, and a candlelight vigil held in her honor in London that was disrupted by an aggressive police force.“What our film addresses, really, are the things that we have normalized in our culture that are not normal and not acceptable,” Mulligan said this morning.
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