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Women Directors Have Three Best Picture Nominees, Setting Oscar Record
The most movies directed by women in Oscars history were nominated for best picture, including "Anatomy of a Fall," "Barbie" and "Past Lives."
Only four years have included two films directed by women among the best picture nominees: Lone Scherfig’s “The Hurt Locker” and Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” (2009), Lisa Cholodenko’s “The Kids Are All Right” and Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone” (2010), Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” and Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” (2020) and Siân Heder’s “CODA” and Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” (2021). In another milestone, producers and stars Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) and Margot Robbie (“Barbie”) became the second and third women recognized for best picture and acting in the same year. Those include Stone, Robbie, Emma Thomas (“Oppenheimer”), Marie-Ange Luciani (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger (“Maestro”), Ewa Puszczynska (“The Zone of Interest”) and Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon (“Past Lives”).
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