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For the first time ever, two female directors were vying for the Best Director prize. Chloe Zhao (for road movie Nomadland) and Emerald Fennell (for rape revenge saga Promising Young Woman) will compete with David Fincher ( Mank), Thomas Vinterberg ( Another Round) and Lee Isaac Chung ( Minari). Should either win, they’ll become only the second female director ever to take the prize, after Kathryn Bigelow won in 2010 for The Hurt Locker. More than anyone else, the focus will be on these newcomers. British filmmaker Fennell, famed for playing Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown, has three Oscar nominations in total (also Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay). ....
Nominees include Mia Neal, Jamika Wilson, Ren Klyce and Coya Elliott. On Oscar nominations morning, the crafts categories included a historic first in makeup and hairstyling, among some notable recognitions. For their work on Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, two women, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson, became the first Black Oscar nominees in the makeup and hairstyling category. Neal was the film s hair and wig designer and hair department head, and Wilson is the personal hairstylist for star Viola Davis. Sharing the nomination with these women is Davis personal makeup artist and first-time nominee, Sergio Lopez-Rivera. Nomadland s Chloé Zhao earned one of her four record-setting Oscar nominations for editing, along with best picture, directing and writing. It s rare for a director to win an Oscar for their film s editing, the last time was in 2014 when Alfonso Cuarón shared the editing Oscar with Mark Sanger for ....