Tag: Promising Young Woman
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Chloé Zhao, Emerald Fennell Make Oscars History as Two Women Nominated for Best Director
It’s about time. For the first time in its nearly hundred-year history, the Oscars have nominated a pair of female filmmakers in its Best Director category, with both Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell earning nominations for their films “Nomadland” and “Promising Young Woman,” respectively. Both filmmakers also received screenplay nominations for their films, and each…
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‘Nomadland’ wins best film, director at 2021 Critics Choice winners
Carey Mulligan named best actress for Promising Young Woman.Searchlight Pictures’ Nomadland won best film, Chloe Zhao earned best director and adapted screenplay, and Carey Mulligan and the late Chadwick Boseman took the top acting awards at the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday (March 7).Zhao became the first female and Chinese woman to win…
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‘Promising Young Woman’ Wins Best Film and Best Actress at Australian Academy International Awards
Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” has won Best Picture at the 10th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) International Awards. Carey Mulligan also scooped the Best Lead Actress in Film award for the film.Other winners include “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao, who became the first woman to receive the Aacta International Award for Best…
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‘Promising Young Woman’ Wins Best Film and Best Actress at Australian Academy International Awards
Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” has won Best Picture at the 10th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) International Awards. Carey Mulligan also scooped the Best Lead Actress in Film award for the film.Other winners include “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao, who became the first woman to receive the Aacta International Award for Best…
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The Makeup Process Behind Carey Mulligan’s Transformation for ‘Promising Young Woman’
As soon as Makeup Head Angie Wells received Emerald Fennell’s script for “Promising Young Woman,” she had notes to make. She noticed the different personas that Carey Mulligan’s Cassie goes through, especially when “she’s doing her hits; it wasn’t soft and pretty.”Fennell’s film follows Cassie, who by day works in a coffee shop, and by…
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Chloé Zhao Makes Golden Globes History as Second Woman to Win Best Director Prize
Chloé Zhao won the Golden Globe for Best Director, a history-making victory as she is now just the second woman to win the category in the Globes’ 78-year history. The first and previously only woman to win Best Director at the Globes was Barbra Streisand for “Yentl.” Zhao was awarded Best Director for her work…
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Sofia Coppola Says She Can’t Watch Movies Without Any Female Characters
Sofia Coppola is known for writing and directing rich roles for women, from Kirsten Dunst as rebellious teen Lux Lisbon in “The Virgin Suicide” to Scarlett Johansson as adrift postgrad Charlotte in “Lost in Translation” and, most recently, Rashida Jones’ Laura in “On the Rocks.” She has the same expectations for other directors’ movies she…
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The 50 Best Movies of 2020, According to Over 230 Film Critics
Nominations for the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the Critics Choice Awards have turned the likes of “Nomadland,” “Mank,” “Promising Young Woman,” “Minari,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Ma Rainy’s Black Bottom,” and “Borat Subsequent Film” into major Oscar season contenders. What do all of these films also have in common?…
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah,’ ‘Palm Springs,’ ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,’ and More Land 2021 WGA Nominations
The 2021 WGA nominations for TV were announced earlier this month, and now it’s time for movies. Original screenplays that garnered attention include Judas and the Black Messiah, Palm Springs, Promising Young Woman, and more. On the adapted screenplay front, titles such as Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, and more landed nods. See…
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‘Trial of the Chicago 7,’ ‘One Night In Miami’ Lead WGA Awards Film Noms
The Writers Guild of America announced their film nominees for the delayed 2021 WGA Awards and, once again, the films that didn’t qualify shaped the list of honorees more than those who did. Awards season players “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Promising Young Woman” made the cut as expected in the Original Screenplay…