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      Chloé Zhao Is First Chinese Woman Nominated for Best Director at the Oscars

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      The “Nomadland” filmmaker scored other Oscar mentions: best adapted screenplay and best editing. Her film is up for best picture and her star, Frances McDormand, is up for best actor.With the announcement of the Oscar nominations on Monday, the filmmaker Chloé Zhao has become the first Chinese woman and the first woman of color to be nominated for best director.Zhao directed “Nomadland,” which she also adapted from the nonfiction book of the same name by Jessica Bruder. Zhao was also nominated for her screenplay and for editing. The drama is up for best picture.In the movie, Frances McDormand, who was nominated Monday for best actress, stars as Fern, a widow with a strong independent streak who takes up van life and itinerant work, meeting similarly uprooted fellow travelers on the road. Praising the director in his review, The Times’s co-chief film critic A.O. Scott wrote, “‘Nomadland’ is patient, compassionate and open, motivated by an impulse to wander and observe rather than to judge or explain.”Zhao is at work on her next movie, the Marvel superhero team-up “The Eternals,” but issued a statement on Monday: “I’m so thrilled for our nominations! Thank you to the academy. I’m grateful to have gone on this journey with our talented team of filmmakers and to have met so many wonderful people who generously shared their stories with us. Thank you so much to my academy peers for recognizing this film that is very close to my heart.”Zhao, 38, grew up in Beijing and, according to a profile in New York magazine, moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to attend high school. After film school at New York University, she made her feature debut with “Songs My Brother Taught Me,” a 2016 drama set on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota that she followed up in 2018 with the much praised western “The Rider.”In China, her accomplishments this season were initially celebrated. But then nationalists found an old interview she gave criticizing China, and references to “Nomadland” (including hashtags on social media) were removed. But the film is still scheduled for an April 23 release there.Only five women have ever been up for the best director Oscar: Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”), Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”), Sofia Coppola (“Lost in Translation”), Jane Campion (“The Piano”), and Lina Wertmüller (“Seven Beauties”). And only Bigelow went on to win, in 2010.Could Zhao become the second? All along this awards season, she has been a front-runner, picking up the Golden Globe for best director last month and the Critics Choice award in the same category this month, as well as a string of honors from critics groups in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.Zhao is known for casting nonprofessional performers and drawing character details from real life. Adapting Bruder’s book herself, a task that included researching how itinerant Americans live, she hired some of the people depicted in the book to play themselves onscreen. She pushed her star, Frances McDormand, to work the jobs her character, Fern, does, like working in a warehouse.“It’s very interesting, the layers of it,” Zhao told The Times’s Kyle Buchanan. “Fran is playing Fern, but even the name ‘Fern’ came from herself and who she thinks she might be if she hit the road.” More

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      Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell Make History With 2021 Oscar Nominations

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      The ‘Nomadland’ director and the ‘Promising Young Woman’ helmer are up for best director as the complete nominations list for the upcoming Academy Awards is announced.

      Mar 16, 2021
      AceShowbiz – 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 (15Mar21) by actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her husband, singer-songwriter-actor Nick Jonas saw both Zhao’s “Nomadland”, and British talent Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” selected in the Best Picture category, as well as earning them nods for their direction, breaching a new barrier again for female directors, who have typically been overlooked.
      It is the first time in the Academy Awards’ nearly almost 100-year history, more than one female director has been nominated in the best director category.
      In total, only five women have been nominated in the best director category, with Kathryn Bigelow, who directed 2010 movie “The Hurt Locker”, the first and only female director to win in the category.
      Both films garnered several nominations, with “Nomadland” collecting six including Best Actress for lead Frances McDormand, and Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” earning a Best Actress nod for Carey Mulligan among its five nominations. While David Fincher helmed “Mank” is the Oscars most nominated movie with 11 nods.
      Director Fincher will compete against Zhao, Fennell, Aaron Sorkin for “The Trial of the Chicago 7” – which garnered seven nods – Thomas Vinterberg for movie “Another Round”, and Lee Isaac Chung for “Minari”.
      In the Best Actor category, Chadwick Boseman was given another posthumous nod for his role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, alongside his co-star Viola Davis who gets her fourth Oscar nomination, and her second nod for Best Actress.
      Also competing for Best Actor is “Mank” leading man Gary Oldman, fellow British stars Anthony Hopkins for “The Father” and Riz Ahmed for “Sound of Metal”, and Steven Yeun for “Minari”.
      The Best Actress category is rounded out by first-time nominees, singer Andra Day for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” and former “The Crown” star Vanessa Kirby for “Pieces of a Woman”.
      In a move that may cause some controversy, British star Daniel Kaluuya is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor group for his starring role in “Judas and the Black Messiah”, alongside his co-star LaKeith Stanfield. Also in the supporting actor group are; Sacha Baron Cohen for “The Trial of the Chicago 7”, Leslie Odom Jr. for “One Night in Miami…”, and Paul Raci for “Sound of Metal”.
      Glenn Close receives her eighth Oscar nomination for her role in “Hillbilly Elegy”, and will compete against Cohen’s “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” co-star Maria Bakalova, Olivia Colman for “The Father”, Amanda Seyfried for “Mank”, and “Minari” star Yuh-Jung Youn in the Best Supporting Actress category.
      Elsewhere Disney’s “Soul” and “Onward” will battle it out for the Animated Movie category, which is rounded out by “Over the Moon”, “Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon”, and “Wolfwalkers”.
      The Oscars will take place on Sunday, 25 April.
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      “Burrow”
      “Genius Loci”
      “If Anything Happens I Love You”
      “Opera”
      “Yes-People”
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      “Feeling Through”
      “The Letter Room”
      “The Present”
      “Two Distant Strangers”
      “White Eye”

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      ‘Promising Young Woman’ Director Emerald Fennell on Her Historic Oscar Nomination

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }Awards SeasonOscar Nominations HighlightsNominees ListSnubs and SurprisesBest Director NomineesStream the NomineesAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyThe Projectionist‘Promising Young Woman’ Director Emerald Fennell on Her Historic Oscar NominationFor the first time, two women are up for best director, but a daylight-saving time mix-up almost kept the filmmaker from the announcement.Emerald Fennell, second from right, on the set with, among others, Carey Mulligan, left, and Laverne Cox.Credit…Merie Weismiller Wallace/Focus Features, via Associated PressMarch 15, 2021Updated 1:12 p.m. ET“Promising Young Woman” has been a major player this awards season, and writer-director Emerald Fennell had every reason to expect that Monday’s Oscar nominations would bring even more good news for her first feature.She just didn’t want to do herself in by dwelling on it.“Last night, I think I did what any sensible person would do: I watched about six hours of ‘Married at First Sight Australia’ to take my mind off it,” Fennell said. “Especially when you’re making an independent film, you can’t ever hope for something like this.”And after all that anticipation, Fennell almost missed the announcement entirely: The British filmmaker had planned to watch the nominations live, but she hadn’t factored in the hour lost to daylight saving. As her nomination for best original screenplay was read, an oblivious Fennell was still on a work call fielded from her office in the English countryside.She had a hunch something had gone wrong — or, oh so right — when her phone began to blow up with text messages: “I had to say very embarrassingly to the person on the call, ‘I’m sorry, I have to go, I think I’ve just been nominated for an Oscar!’”At least Fennell switched over in time to watch “Promising Young Woman” garner additional nominations for editing, directing and lead actress Carey Mulligan, as well as a final nod for best picture. How did she react as those nominations were read out? “There was a huge amount of screaming and crying,” Fennell said. “I don’t know what everyone else does.”It’s all the more meaningful for Fennell because her recognition alongside the “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao is the first time that more than one woman has been nominated for the best-director Oscar in the same year. (Only five women have ever been nominated for that award.)“There’s no way of describing it without sounding immensely cheesy, but it means so much and I’m so proud,” Fennell said. “Chloé is such a devastatingly brilliant and talented person, and in fact, there were so many incredible female directors this year I want to meet in real life and hug, when we’re allowed.”In the meantime, Fennell has a flood of texts to respond to — she read me her favorite, from her friend Chris: “Congratulations, I still haven’t seen it” — and the rest of her day to get through. The idea of suddenly filling all that time caused her no end of consternation.“I don’t know what to do! What should I do, you tell me!” she fretted. “I can’t watch any more ‘Married at First Sight.’ I think I’m going to have to lie on the floor and cry because I don’t drink or smoke anymore or do anything fun.” Fennell sighed: “I’m just going to look out the window, I suppose.”AdvertisementContinue reading the main story More

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      Oscars Nominations 2021: For the First Time, Two Women Are Up for Best Director

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }Awards SeasonOscar Nominations HighlightsNominees ListSnubs and SurprisesBest Director NomineesStream the NomineesAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyOscars Nominations 2021: For the First Time, Two Women Are Up for Best DirectorChloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell were selected alongside Lee Isaac Chung, Thomas Vinterberg and David Fincher, the first time the academy has honored more than one woman in a year.Chloé Zhao, left, was nominated for “Nomadland,” and Emerald Fennell was nominated for “Promising Young Woman.”Credit…Taylor Jewell/Invision via Associated PressMarch 15, 2021Updated 12:55 p.m. ETFor the first time in the history of the Oscars, more than one female filmmaker has been nominated for an Academy Award for best director in a single year.On Monday, Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) and Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”) scored nominations alongside Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”), David Fincher (“Mank”) and Thomas Vinterberg (“Another Round”). The honor is also notable because the category rarely features any women: Before this year, only five female filmmakers had been recognized.Zhao became the first Asian woman to win best director at the Golden Globes in February, when “Nomadland,” the story of a widow who joins the country’s itinerant work force, also picked up best picture in the drama category. The film is a strong contender to win best picture at the 93rd Oscars on April 25.“Promising Young Woman,” about the quest for vengeance after a friend is raped, was nominated for four Golden Globes, including best director and best picture. In the end it was shut out.“Nomadland” was near universally well-reviewed, with The New York Times’s co-chief film critic A.O. Scott praising Zhao’s attention “to the interplay between human emotion and geography, to the way space, light and wind reveal character.”“Promising Woman” received a more mixed reception, though USA Today’s Brian Truitt characterized Fennell, who also wrote the script, as a “stunning new filmmaking voice with a cunning heroine who’s impossible not to adore.”If either Zhao or Fennell were to win, they would become just the second woman named best director — and the first in more than a decade. In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow won for her Iraq War film “The Hurt Locker.” Next year, Zhao may also have a chance to become the first female director to be nominated twice — she’s helming the Marvel superhero movie “Eternals,” currently set for release in November.The other women who have been nominated are Lina Wertmüller (in 1977 for “Seven Beauties”), Jane Campion (“The Piano,” 1994), Sofia Coppola (“Lost in Translation,” 2004) and Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird,” 2018).Last year, 16 percent of the top 100 grossing films were directed by women, according to the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, up from 12 percent in 2019 and 4 percent in 2018.AdvertisementContinue reading the main story More

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      2021 Oscars Nominees List

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      Movies released in 2021 seem to have momentum.

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