'The Reality of Vengeance' in 'Promising Young Woman': 'THR Presents’ Q&A with Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell

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.

Emerald Fennell made her feature film directorial debut with Promising Young Woman, and on Monday, she earned her first Oscar nomination, becoming one of only seven women to ever earn a nomination in the directing category. The U.K.-based writer-director also earned noms for screenplay and best picture.

For her turn as Cassie —a brilliant former medical studentconfronting the traumas of her past — in Emerald Fennell's directorial debutPromising Young Woman,Carey Mulligan has earned her second Oscar nomination and her first in over a decade. The 35-year-old actress was last nominated in 2010 forAn Education.

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.

Five Oscar nominations this morning for Promising Young Woman place Emerald Fennell’s searing and darkly comic drama about a woman avenging her friend after a sexual assault into confirmed frontrunner status for this year’s Academy Awards.

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.

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

2021 Oscars nominations were announced on Monday, with 's Chloe Zhao and 'sEmerald Fennelllanding 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 seventhwomen 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

The Directors Guild of America on Tuesday announced the feature-film and first-time director nominees for the 2021 DGA Awards. The feature-film director nominees are Minari's Lee Isaac Chung, Promising Young Woman's Emerald Fennell, Mank's David Fincher, Trial of the Chicago 7's Aaron Sorkin and Nomadland's Chloé Zhao.

Academy Awards, announced nominees Tuesday. In the more than seven decades of the awards, only nine times before had a female filmmaker been nominated for best director.

Clayton Davis On the same day that the BAFTA Awards weighed in with their choices on the best film and directing achievements of the year, the prestigious (and typically more telling of Oscar nominations) DGA Awards dropped their nominees, with some historic nods.Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”) and Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) became the ninth and tenth women ever to be nominated by the Directors Guild of America. Zhao is the first woman of color to ever be nominated.

The Directors Guild of America Awards were first held in 1949. The first woman to be nominated in the Feature Film category was Lina Wertmüller in 1977.

Spoiler Alert: This podcast contains details about the ending for Focus Features’ Promising Young Woman.