Regina King Fans Upset She Was Snubbed For Best Director Oscar Nomination After Her ‘One Night In Miami’ Directorial Debut

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Regina King Fans Upset She Was Snubbed For Best Director Oscar Nomination After Her ‘One Night In Miami’ Directorial Debut

While the Oscars have a record number of female directors it’s recognizing via nominations this year, Regina King isn’t on the list.

This is the first year two women have been nominated for Best Director at the same time (salute to Chloe Zhao of Nomadland and Emerald Fennell of Promising Young Women), but Regina King isn’t a part of it after directing her first film One Night In Miami last year.

Interestingly enough, all three women made history when they were each nominated for Best Director of a Motion Picture Golden Globe (Chloe Zhao took home the award), which makes it even more interesting to some fans that Regina King didn’t receive a nomination for an Oscar this year. Regina King trended on Twitter shortly after the nominations were announced Monday (March 15th), as fans reacted to her getting snubbed.

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One Night In Miami, written by Kemp Powers, did receive a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Leslie Odom, Jr., who played Sam Cooke in the critically-acclaimed film is also up for Best Supporting Actor.

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