Jane Campion made Oscar history this morning as the first female director to be nominated for Best Director twice, after The Power of the Dog.
She was previously nominated in the category for The Piano in 1994, but won in the original screenplay category.Campion is the eighth woman to break through in Oscar’s Best Director category.
She is also the first woman to be nominated twice in the screenplay categories, this year in Adapted for Power of the Dog, and prior for The Piano.
Campion overall counts three Oscar noms this year; Power of the Dog also being up for Best Picture. Last year was huge for women breaking the glass ceiling at the Oscars as Nomadland filmmaker Chloé Zhao and Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell became the first two female directors to be recognized in the category in a single year.
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