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Oscars 2021 is bigger, better and diverse! The 93rd Academy Award nominations were announced on Monday, 15 March and presented by Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas. While there are some hits and misses, there are also quite a few firsts. Turns out, in the Academy's 93-year-old history, directors Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell are the first two women filmmakers to be nominated in the Best Director category together. The Academy which has often faced backlash for sidelining women filmmakers, nominated Chloe Zhao for Nomadland and Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman. With this nomination, Chloe Zhao also became the first...
