Oscars: Female Directors Break Record for Most Nominations in One Year
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hollywoodreporter.comFor the first time in the Academy Awards' nearly century-old history, more than one female director has been nominated in the best director category.
Directors Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) andEmerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) were both nominated in the best director category for the 93rd Academy Awards, with Zhao also becoming the first non-white woman to be nominated.
In total, only five women have been nominated in the best director category. The first woman nominated in the category wasLina Wertmüller in 1977 for Seven Beauties, followed by nominations for Jane Campion (The Piano, 1994), Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, 2003), Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, 2010), and Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, 2018).
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