The Gloden Globe has nominated three women directors for the best directors. For the first time, this is happening that the shortlisting of a female director in a single year is more than one.
Regina King, Emerald Fennell, and Chloe Zhao are in the list for the award. Previously in the history of 77 years, Golden Globes had nominated only five women.
Mank leads the overall film awards run with six nominations in the list. In the TV categories, The Crown leads, the honour also by six nominations.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Olivia Colman are amid the Britons up for acting honours.
The nominations tardily fired the opening gun for this year’s Hollywood award season. The nomination was to start early, but due to the global pandemic, it got delayed.
The film drama by Aaron Sorkin, ‘The Trial of the Chicago’ and the TV comedy Schitt’s creek also played well. Both the shows have five nominations each.
Doubles for the Borat and The Crown stars.
Baron-Cohen, Colmen, and Anya Taylor all these people have two nominations each for their acting.
Cohen said that he felt overwhelmed and humbled that he got an appreciation for the films Borat subsequent Moviefilms and The Trail of the Chicago 7.
Taylor joy meanwhile had her shortlisting for Netflix’s chess drama The Queen Gambit. Also for the Jane Austen Film adaptation of Emma.
In a TV drama for playing the Queen in Netflix’s The Crown last year, Colman, won the award of the best actress award in a TV drama, could. The expectations are that she could repeat that this year.
Women behind the camera
For playing the role of Camilla Parker Bowles, Emerald Fenellwould be familiar to The Crown’s fans. The Brit did not receive her nominations acting but for Promising Young Woman. The show is Fenell’s first feature film of her as a director.
She was also nominated for the best screenplay for writing for the best comic thriller. Moreover, she was previously a chief writer on the second series of the Killing Eve.
Regina King is famous in both film and TV fans. She won a Golden Globe and an Oscar in 2018, for If Beale Street Could Talk.
The actress has now moved behind the camera One Night in Miami.
Chinese director Chloe Zhao is the first woman of Asian lineage to be up for the Golden Globes best director award, from Nomanland.
