‘Promising Young Woman’ & ‘Ted Lasso’ Among 2021 WGA Awards Winners

Miss England beauty queen is turning her back on pageants and kicking off her high-heels to swap them for a high-vis as she is set to become a lorry driver.The bombshell is turning her back on the pageantry world as she trains to become a lorry driver due to a shortage of UK truckers.Milly Everatt, 22, grew up on her parent’s farm and is working towards a new career in a traditionally male-dominated industry in order to challenge the stereotype many women within the industry face.She grew up on a farm so is no stranger to managing big vehicles as she used to drive tractors around.Milly is training for both her Class 1 and Class 2 HGV licence which could see her behind the wheel of 44-tonne lorries.She was inspired to make the jump after a combination of events, including Covid, Brexit and other factors which led to a shortage of HGV drivers across the country.The career change is a far cry from her glamourous pageant days as she walked the catwalk as a model and finalist in the Miss England beauty contest.The former Miss Lincolnshire was crowned Miss Charity in 2018 after raising the most money for good causes.Four years later, stunning Milly is now on course to become a lorry driver to prove it's "not just 40-year-old men" who can operate heavy-duty vehicles.It is currently estimated that only 1% to 3% of HGV drivers are female, something that Milly is trying to change.She said: “I think we’re in modern times and there’s nothing to stop girls getting involved in that kind of thing.“It’s not the norm but it should be. It’s also something people don’t think about often, it’s not thought about enough in feminism.“Agriculture has been forgotten about by feminism."Anything that breaks the stereotype has to be a good thing.

Promising Young Woman has been the film on everyone’s lips in recent months. It’s been nominated for five Oscars and six BAFTAs and yet we haven’t been able to see it.

Clayton Davis On Sunday night, the Writers Guild Awards handed out its screenwriting prizes in a virtual setting, signaling a historic moment for women at the Oscars, specifically the screenplay awards.Emerald Fennell won best original screenplay for her revenge drama “Promising Young Woman” over Oscar-nominated films “Judas and the Black Messiah” (Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas, Kenny Lucas), “Sound of Metal” (Darius Marder, Abraham Marder, Derek Cianfrance) and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Aaron Sorkin). Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” was not eligible for nomination at the annual guild ceremony.

Martha Lauzen For the first time in its 93-year history, the Academy has nominated two women for best director. Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell will compete with David Fincher, Lee Isaac Chung and Thomas Vinterberg for the coveted honor. But before we launch into a monthlong celebration about how “we’ve come a long way, baby,” we should consider exactly what has and has not been accomplished.Women comprised 18% of directors working on the top 250 domestic grossing films of 2020, up from 13% in 2019 and 8% in 2018, according to the latest Celluloid Ceiling study.

Promising Young Woman will finally be released in the UK next month.Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut, starring Carey Mulligan, is set to premiere on Sky Cinema and NOW in April after lengthy delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.The film follows a young woman named Cassie who seeks revenge on predatory “nice guys” following a tragedy that occurred in her days at medical school.Mulligan plays Cassie, and stars opposite Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Adam Brody and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.Check out the trailer here:Fennell, who was the showrunner on season two of Killing Eve and played Camilla Parker-Bowles on The Crown, made history earlier this month when she received an Oscar nomination for Best Director.She was

If it’s a Sunday evening in March 2021 it must be time for the guild award honors to begin. On this day, the Writer’s Guild of America handed out their annual WGA Awards winners and the two biggest awards gave only a hint of what might happen on Oscar night.

Jasmin Rosemberg I’ll admit, I went into “Promising Young Woman” in the utterly blind way that trauma victims probably shouldn’t go into anything.My decision to rent it was inevitable after reading rave reviews on social media from a wide cross-section of colleagues, young and older, which is perhaps why I also made the mistake of watching it with my mother. The lip-sticked, candy-colored promotions allured and deceived me exactly as director Emerald Fennell intended (just as the film’s protagonist lures unconscionable culprits).

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety“…With the West End set to reopen in May, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella” musical, with a book by freshly minted Oscar nominee Emerald Fennell, is back in rehearsals. “We just had our first run-through for Emerald,” Lloyd Webber tells me.

However the Academy Awards play out when they are finally distributed April 25, the 93rd Oscars is guaranteed to be one for the record books. Already, the nominations have achieved several historic firsts: Two women, Nomadland's Chloé Zhao and Promising Young Woman's Emerald Fennell, were nominated for director — a category that rarely sees even one female in the ranks — while nine actors of color were nominated, including the first Asian American, Minari's Steven Yeun, as best actor.

Promising Young Woman, is to write a new DC movie based on comic book heroine Zatanna.Fennell, who is also known for her showrunner work in Killing Eve and acting roles in The Crown and The Danish Girl, will write the forthcoming film for Warner Bros.’s DC Films and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, reports Variety.It will be the first time Zatanna, who is one of the most powerful sorcerers in the DC Extended Universe, is featured in a film franchise.

Hot off of winning the WGA Award for original screenplay on Sunday night, Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell is set to write the DC movie Zatanna for Bad Robot and Warner Bros. This deal has been done for a while, I understand. No word yet as to whether Fennell will direct.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterEmerald Fennell, the Oscar-nominated director of “Promising Young Woman,” is taking on a different kind of vigilante. She has been tapped to write “Zatanna,” a big-screen adaptation of the DC Comics heroine.The movie, from Warner Bros.’ DC Films and J.J.

Promising Young Woman and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm topped the 2021 Writers Guild Awards, winning best original and adapted screenplay, respectively. Accepting the award for adapted screenplay, Borat's Sacha Baron Cohen quipped of the film's many nominees, "I can't help but think that we won it because 60 percent of the Writers Guild worked on this movie." He added, "A film like this is extremely hard to write, partly because it stars real people whose behavior is completely unpredictable.

Britons Emerald Fennell and Sacha Baron Cohen were among the winners at the Writers Guild Awards, in a major boost to their Oscars hopes. Fennell walked away with the prize for best original screenplay for her film, Promising Young Woman - her directorial debut.

Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell made history on Monday morning.The filmmakers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director; this is the first time that two female directors have been put up for the same distinction.This awards season has seen many women and people of color being nominated for various Oscars, and the ceremony is shaping up to be the most inclusive one ever as the Academy recently implemented new diversity rules.

Wearing bullet-proof vests, an entire production having to flee from New York City to New Jersey, the challenges of portraying real-life characters and the joys of working with animals — specifically, dogs and an octopus — were among the myriad of topics covered Saturday during a series of nominee panels hosted by the Producers Guild of America. Monica Levinson, one of the producers of Sacha Baron Cohen's spoof comedy Borat Subsequent Moviefilm revealed in detail the tense hours that ensued after Rudy Giuliani’s compromising interview in the film with Tutar, Borat’s daughter (Maria Bakalova), which was shot at Manhattan hotel.

Another guild award is in the books, ladies and gentlemen. The Writers Guild Awards are in the rearview mirror now, with some definite Oscar implications. For one thing, it does really now seem like Emerald Fennell is headed towards an Academy Award for her Promising Young Woman screenplay. She’s almost undoubtedly taken a strong lead over Aaron Sorkin and his script for The Trial of the Chicago 7. On the flip-side, Kemp Powers’ hopes to upset Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland in Best Adapted Screenplay took a hit when One Night in Miami… lost at WGA to Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Could they be in line for another upset? We shall see…

Hollywood celebrated its best and brightest writers at the 2021 Writers Guild of America Awards on Sunday night, with Promising Young Woman and Borat 2 coming up big.Writer-director Emerald Fennell took home the Best Original Screenplay award for her critically-acclaimed revenge thriller Promising Young Woman (via THR).Sacha Baron Cohen and his team of writersAnthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern took home Best Adapted Screenplay for Borat 2, while Ted Lasso took home two TV awards.

FILM“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros) – Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King, Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas“Palm Springs” (Hulu/Neon) –  Screenplay by Andy Siara, Story by Andy Siara & Max Barbakow“Promising Young Woman” (Focus Features) – Written by Emerald Fennell“Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios) – Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder, Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Netflix) – Written by Aaron Sorkin“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (Amazon Studios) – Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern, Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina

(CNN)Nominations for 93rd Academy Awards were announced Monday morning and women fared well.Seventy women received a total 76 nominations, according to the Academy, a record for a given year.Two women, Emerald Fennell and Chloé Zhao, were nominated in the directing category in the same year for the first time. Zhao is the first woman of color to be nominated in the category."Mank," Netflix's black and white drama about screenwriter Herman J.

Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell made history on Monday morning.The filmmakers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director; this is the first time that two female directors have been put up for the same distinction.This awards season has seen many women and people of color being nominated for various Oscars, and the ceremony is shaping up to be the most inclusive one ever as the Academy recently implemented new diversity rules.