"For the first time in history," Hollywood media outlet Variety wrote after nominating three female directors for best director at this year's Golden Globe Awards. In the past 70 years, the Golden Globe Awards have nominated only 5 female directors.
According to Variety local time reported on the 3rd, the three female directors nominated this time are director Emerald Fennell (the work "Girl with a Bright Future"), Regina King (work "A Night in Miami") and Chinese director Zhao Ting.
Fennell played the role of Camilla in the fourth season of the British drama "The Crown" and also served as the screenwriter of "Killing Eve", and this time "The Girl with a Bright Future" is his first director.
Regina King is a black director and actress who won that year's Oscar and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2019 for the film "If Beale Street Could Talk".
Zhao Ting was born in Beijing in 1982 and is best known to Chinese audiences as "Stepdaughter of Song Dandan" and studied at the New York University Film School.
This time, her film "No Place" won four nominations for Best Director, Best Drama Film, Best Actress and Best Screenplay, and she is also the first Chinese female director to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
Previously, she won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Picture and Audience Choice for the film, and won four awards at the National Film Critics Association Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Previously, the Hollywood media predicted that the Oscar for best picture was likely to be decided between "No Mand", "Mank" and "Blues Queen".
Also competing for the Best Director Award were directors David Finch (Manker) and Aaron Sorkin (Chicago's Trial of the Seven Gentlemen).
Notably, this is also the first time in the history of the Golden Globes that three female directors have been nominated at the same time, and Variety specifically emphasized this point in the article - "the first time in history".
The Golden Globes were first presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the 78th in 1944, but in the past 70 years, the Golden Globes have nominated only five female directors.
They are:
Barbara Streisand (1984, Prince of Tides 1991);
Jane Campion (1994, piano lessons);
Sophia Coppola (Lost in Tokyo, 2004);
Catherine Bigelow (2010 Bomb Disposal Unit, 2013 Bin Laden Hunt);
Ava Dewier (Selma, 2015).
In 2018, actress Natalie Portman bluntly stated on stage that it was an "All-Male Award" when presenting the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
Hollywood also has far fewer female directors than men, with 16 percent of the 100 highest-grossing films in 2020, surpassing 12 percent in 2019 and 4 percent in 2018, but that's still far behind men.
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