When the 2021 Oscar nominations were announced on Monday morning, more than one woman was nominated in the best director category for the first time, the first Muslim and Asian American performers were nominated for best actor, respectively, and several other notable records were broken.
Among other history-making nods, Chadwick Boseman became the seventh actor to receive a posthumous nomination with his first acting nomination forMa Rainey's Black Bottom, while leading Oscar nominee Mank received several historic nominations as a black-and-white film and Netflix approached a milestone record currently held by United Artists.
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