Emerald Fennell is the first woman to win a screenwriting Oscar since 2008
LA TimesEmerald Fennell has won the original screenplay Oscar for her feature directorial debut, “Promising Young Woman,” the first female filmmaker to do so since Diablo Cody in 2008. “A film that anyone could watch and discuss: a poison popcorn movie.” The first woman to win an original screenplay award was Muriel Box, who shared the honor with her husband, Sydney, for 1946’s “The Seventh Veil.” They are also the first married couple to take home the award. Marguerite Duras was the first solo woman to be nominated, for 1960’s “Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” and she was joined 11 years later by Penelope Gilliatt for 1971’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” In 1991, Callie Khouri made history as the first solo woman to win the award for “Thelma & Louise.” She was later joined by Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola and Cody, making Fennell just the fifth woman to claim the honor alone. In 2018, Jordan Peele made history as the first Black writer to win an original screenplay Oscar, for “Get Out.” Two years later, Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won became the first Asian writers to win either screenplay award for “Parasite.” “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao is nominated in the adapted screenplay category this year, as are three women — Erica Rivinoja, Jena Friedman and Nina Pedrad — from the nine-person team behind “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” The adapted screenplay Oscar went to “The Father,” written by Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, based on Zeller’s play of the same name.
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