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No women were nominated for the Best DirectorAcademy Awardat the upcoming 95th Oscars ceremony, after a female director won the award in each of the previous two years.
On Tuesday, the Academy Awards announced Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin),Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert(Everything Everywhere All at Once),Steven Spielberg(The Fabelmans),Todd Field(Tár) and Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness) as its nominees for Best Director.
Female directors shut out of the category whose films were nominated in other categories include Charlotte Wells (Aftersun) and Sarah Polley(Women Talking).Gina Prince-Bythewood’sThe Woman King, Chinonye Chukwu’sTilland Maria Schrader’sShe Saidwere also not recognized.
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Women Talking, despite missing out on a Best Director nomination, was nominated for Best Picture.
The lack of female nominees inthe Oscars' Best Director category this year comes afterJane Campionwon the award in 2022 forThe Power of the Dog,which made her the third woman to ever win Best Director.
Chloé Zhao was just thesecond woman ever to win the awardin 2021 when she won forNomadland, while Kathryn Bigelow made history with her win in 2010 forThe Hurt Locker.
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Despite recent wins, only seven women have ever been nominated for directing efforts in the Academy Awards' history. Campion was previously nominated in 1994 forThe Piano, while Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties), Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) and Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) round out a short list of female nominees inthe Oscars' history.
The93rd Academy Awardsin 2021 featured the first time two women were nominated for the award in the same year, when Zhao’sNomadlandand Fennell’sPromising Young Womanwere both recognized.
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The director’s branch of the Academy is made up of 75.6% male directors, while the entire body itself is comprised of 66.5% male members out of 10,509, according toThe Hollywood Reporter, which cited the Academy’s most recent membership numbers.
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Notable past Oscar snubs for women in the Best Director category include 1987’sChildren of a Lesser God, which received five nominations — including one for Best Picture — but did not receive a Best Director nomination for filmmaker Randa Haines, according toTHR.
source: people.com
