Oscars 2021: Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell make history as two women nominated for best director in same year
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metro.co.uksupports HTML5 videoDirectors Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell have made Oscars history after 2021 nominations saw two women nomintated in the same year for the best director gong.Fennell (Promising Young Woman) and Zhao (Nomadland) are in the running against Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round), David Fincher (Mank) and Lee Isaac Chung (Minari).Only five women have ever been nominated for best director and only one woman has ever won the coveted award – Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010.Zhao also makes history as the first Chinese-American woman nominated.
In fact, she is the first woman of color to land a nod in the category.The exciting news comes just weeks after the director became the first-ever Asian filmmaker to bag the best.
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