By Charlotte Webster-
Three women have been nominated for best director at the Golden Globe awards – the first time more than one has been shortlisted in a single year for the Hollywood awards season
Regina King, Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell are up for the prize, which had only previously nominated five women in the Golden Globes’ 77-year history
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Sacha Baron Cohen and Olivia Colman are among the Brits up for acting awards.
Aaron Sorkin’s film drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 and TV comedy Schitt’s Creek also performed well, with five nominations each.
Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and Olivia Colman in The Crown
Baron Cohen said he felt “overwhelmed and humbled” to be recognised for the films Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and The Trial of the Chicago 7.
“These two films are different, but they share a common theme,” he wrote on Twitter. “Sometimes we have to protest injustice with our own farce.”
He joked that he had already hired Rudy Giuliani, former President Trump’s lawyer, to contest the results. The star also has a third nomination, as a producer of the Borat sequel.
Taylor-Joy, meanwhile, was shortlisted for Netflix’s chess drama The Queen’s Gambit and for the Jane Austen film adaptation Emma.
Colman, who won best actress in a TV drama for playing the Queen in Netflix’s The Crown last year, could repeat that this year, and is also shortlisted for her forthcoming film The Father.
Four of Colman’s The Crown co-stars were also nominated – Emma Corrin (Princess Diana), Josh O’Connor (Prince Charles), Gillian Anderson (Margaret Thatcher) and Helena Bonham Carter (Princess Margaret).
Bookmakers have made the show’s fourth season the favourite to win best TV drama ahead of Lovecraft Country, The Mandalorian, Ozark and Ratched. That’s all despite a row over how the show portrays the Royal Family.
Series creator Peter Morgan said everyone involved in the Netflix series was “thrilled to be recognised in this way”.
“This season really seems to have resonated with audiences of all generations all around the world,” he said. “We could not be more grateful or more proud.”
Emerald Fennell will be familiar to The Crown viewers for playing Camilla Parker-Bowles. The Brit wasn’t nominated for her acting – but was nominated for Promising Young Woman, her first feature film as director.
She also wrote the dark comic thriller, and was previously chief writer on the second series of Killing Eve.
And Chinese director Chloe Zhao has become the first woman of Asian descent to be up for the Golden Globes’ best director prize, for Nomadland.
The last female director to be nominated for best director was Ava DuVernay for Selma in 2014, and the only woman ever to have won is Barbra Streisand for Yentl in 1984.
Nomadland and Promising Young Woman are also nominated for best film drama alongside Mank, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and The Father.