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.
09.03.2021 - 21:32 / thewrap.com
Also Read: 'Nomadland,' 'The Crown' Dominate Critics Choice Awards: Complete Winners ListWhile this is a risky year to take anything for granted, history suggests that four out of the five DGA nominees will go on to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar.
That four-for-five match has happened eight times in the last 10 years, with two outlier years of only two and three matches.The DGA Awards and Oscars have not had a five-for-five match since 2009, and have only done so twice in this
.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.
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.
Emerald Fennell has lined up her next project following her historic Oscar nomination.
Emerald Fennell is enjoying quite a bit of awards success in 2021 since the release of her revenge thriller, “Promising Young Woman,” is picking up awards left and right and earned several Oscar nominations.
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.
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.
all the Midwife have congratulated their former co-star Emerald Fennell on her three Oscar nominations which were announced yesterday afternoon (March 15). Fennell has been nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for her black comedy thriller Promising Young Woman, starring Carey Mulligan, who received a Best Actress nomination for her performance.
A pair of actors received historic best actor Oscar nominations on Monday.Riz Ahmed, nominated for his role in The Sound of Metal, became the first Muslim actor nominated in the category, whileMinari's Steven Yeun became the first Asian American actor to receive a best actor nomination. The nomination of Ahmed, the British Pakistani rapper and actor, follows two wins by Mahershala Ali in the supporting actor category for Moonlight (2016) and Greenbook (2018).
We are nearing the crescendo of a very long, very pandemic-y awards season, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka The Academy, released the 2021 Oscars nominations. And though plenty of folks predicted this year could be a historical one, in terms of diversity and inclusivity, those prognosticators were actually right.
In Oscar history, there’s never been more than one female filmmaker nominated in the Best Directing category in a single year.
nominated for the Oscars Best Director category in the same year.Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell earned nods for their films “Nomadland” and “Promising Young Woman,” respectively.
Oscars 2021 is bigger, better and diverse! The 93rd Academy Award nominations were announced on Monday, 15 March and presented by and Nick Jonas. While there are some hits and misses, there are also quite a few firsts.
Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell will both compete for Best Director at the 2021 Academy Awards, setting a new record for female auteurs in the category. The nominations, announced on Monday by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas, saw both Zhao's Nomadland and Fennell's Promising Young Woman selected in the Best Picture category, with them also earning nods for Best Director.
Kate Aurthur editorDuring a historic year for diversity in the acting categories at the Oscars, the Academy has also made history by nominating two women in the directing category for the first time ever: Chloé Zhao for “Nomadland” and Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman.”Zhao and Fennell will compete against David Fincher (“Mank”), Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”) and surprise nominee Thomas Vinterberg (“Another Round”).
2021 Oscars nominations were announced on Monday, with 's Chloe Zhao and 's Emerald Fennell landing nominations for Best Director — the first time in Oscars history that more than one woman has been nominated in the category.The trio became just the sixth and seventh women ever to be recognized in the category, alongside David Fincher for, Lee Isaac Chung for and Thomas Vinterberg for Zhao has also made history ahead of this year's ceremony, as the first Asian woman ever to be nominated for Best