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We shouldn’t assume too much but the fact that two women made Oscar’s best director field for the first time ever in 2021 suggests that Hollywood is realizing that the low number of female directors in the biz (still just 20 percent) is ridiculous. So, now that Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell are in the club, who’s next? My money is on Sarah Polley.
We shouldn't assume too much but the fact that two women made Oscar's best director field for the first time ever in 2021 suggests that Hollywood is realizing that the low number of female directors in the biz (still just 20%) is ridiculous. So, now that Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell are in the club, who's next? My money is on Sarah Polley. Actually, my money has been on Polley for a while. The 42-year-old Canadian should have been Oscar-nominated way back in 2006 for "Away From Her," a beautiful drama in which she guided Julie Christie to a best actress nomination. Although Polley's screenp...