Who was nominated for this year's top prize in cinema? I hope you were up early watching as Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas announced this year’s nominees. We were! This was a crazy year laden with a pandemic and the lack of being able to visit a theater to see some of these landmark titles. Nevertheless, people stayed home and stayed watching, thanks to streaming services that pumped Academy Award hopefuls into our living rooms. In a year where the unprecedented kept happening in our world, the nominations pushed for new ground as well. Mank led the way with six nominations. It's a product of Netflix, who scored 35 nominations overall. For the first time ever, two women were up for Best Directing, Emerald Fennell and Chloe Zhao. They become only the sixth and seventh women ever nominated for the prize, and Zhao became the first woman of color to be nominated for the Best Director prize. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 15 March, 2021