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Also, Jordan Peele is only the fifth black director to be nominated for best director.

Powell discusses her Oscars predictions and shared her thoughts about Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele as they make history by being the fifth woman and the fifth Black director to be nominated for Best Director.

as they make history by being the fifth woman and the fifth Black director to be nominated for Best Director.

SAT: Jordan Peele is the fifth Black director to be nominated for best director, while Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman.

With his Oscar nomination for Best Director, Get Out's Jordan Peele became only the fifth black director to ever be nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The honor makes the «Get Out» filmmaker just the fifth black director nominated for the award, a distinguished group that includes John Singleton for 1991's «Boyz n the Hood,» Lee Daniels for 2009's «Precious,» Steve McQueen for 2013's «12 Years a Slave» and Barry Jenkins for last year's best - picture winner, «Moonlight.»

Not exact matches

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mblack actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Greta Gerwig is only the fifth woman nominated in the best director category for bringing «Lady Bird,» a tender coming - of - age story, to the screen, while «Get Out» s» Jordan Peele became the fifth black man nominated in the best director category.

He became the fifth black filmmaker nominated for best director, and third to helm a best - picture nominee, following Barry Jenkins last year for Moonlight.

Jordan Peele is now the fifth black man to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar, following Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, 2017), Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, 2013), Lee Daniels (Precious, 2009), and John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood, 1991).

Get Out's Jordan Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director, and the first to score the Directing - Writing - Producing nomination hat trick.

He becomes the fifth black filmmaker nominated for best director, and third to helm a best - picture nominee, following Barry Jenkins last year for Moonlight.

Among racial strides: Jordan Peele is the fifth black Best Director nominee ever for «Get Out,» and Dee Rees, the first black woman to be up for Best Adapted Screenplay as the co-writer of «Mudbound.»

Reinforcing those broader trends, «Lady Bird» writer - director Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman ever to score a nomination for directing, while Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to score a nomination in that category and just the third person to receive best picture, directing and writing nominations for a debut feature.

Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele's Best Director nominations for Lady Bird and Get Out are also significant, not only because they're both debut films, but because this marks only the fifth time a (white) woman and a black man have been nominated for the award, respectively.

Greta Gerwig Is The Fifth Woman And Jordan Peele Is The Fifth Black Man To Be Nominated For The Best Director Oscar