Three feminine administrators noticed their motion pictures nab Finest Image Nominations this 12 months — the primary time that’s ever occurred in Oscar’s 96-year historical past: Celine Music with Previous Lives, Nice Gerwig with Barbie and Justine Triet with Anatomy of a Fall.
For the fifth consecutive 12 months, at the least one of many Finest Footage was directed by a girl.
Within the directing class, Triet turns into the ninth lady to be nominated within the class. She is the one feminine filmmaker this 12 months.
Beforehand, solely 4 years counted two Finest Image noms from feminine filmmakers: 2009 for Lone Scherfig’s An Schooling and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Harm Locker, 2010 for Lisa Cholodenko’s The Children Are All Proper and Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone, 2020 with Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Emerald Fennell’s Promising Younger Lady, and 2021 with Siân Heder’s CODA and Jane Campion’s The Energy of the Canine. Bigelow, Zhao and Heder’s motion pictures took dwelling finest image.
As well as, Emma Stone (Poor Issues) grew to become the second lady in Oscar historical past to land each noms for Finest Image and Finest Actess in the identical 12 months. The primary was Frances McDormand who scored Finest Actress and Finest Image noms for Nomadland. She received in each slots.
Additionally, Gerwig made historical past as the primary feminine movie director to have three solo directorial movies nominated for Finest Image of their profession, efficient with Barbie this AM; her different two titles being Little Girls and Ladybird.
