In Oscar history, there’s never been more than one female filmmaker nominated in the Best Directing category in a single year.Until now.Nomadland Chinese director Chloé Zhao and Promising Young Woman UK filmmaker Emerald Fennell broke several Oscar historical records today for women, of note, it’s the first time that two female directors have been nominated for directing in the same year.In total, they rep the sixth and seventh women to be nominated in the category following Lina Wertmüller (1975’s Seven Beauties), Jane Campion (1993’s The Piano), Sofia Coppola (2003’s Lost in Translation), Kathryn Bigelow (the category’s only winner with 2008’s The Hurt Locker) and Greta Gerwig (2017’s Lady Bird).Zhao is the first woman to receive four
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