Female directors hit another milestone tonight when The Crown‘s Jessica Hobbs won Outstanding Directing For a Drama Series and Hacks‘ Lucia Aniello Won Outstanding Directing For a Comedy Series, respectively.
This marks the first time women have swept both directing categories in the same year.Hobbs being recognized for directing the Season 4 finale of Netflix’s The Crown, marks only the fourth time in 67 years that the Emmy Award in the Outstanding Directing For a Drama Series category has been won by a woman.The rarity of the occasion was not lost on Hobbs, who also was nominated in the category for The Crown last year“Not a lot of women have won this award so I feel I’m standing on the shoulders of some really extraordinary people,” she
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