Bradley Cooper, Ryan Coogler Snubbed in Best Director Category
by EG
Both Black Panther and A Star Is Born made out well in the Oscar nominations announced this week, but both films' directors failed to get the expected nomination. Read on for details.
Bradley Cooper may have directed A Star is Born to eight Oscar nominations, including one for himself as best actor, but he wasn't recognized by the Academy for his directing, with Cooper failing to earn a best director nomination, just one of a handful of surprising omissions from Oscar nominations morning.
Cooper wasn't the only high-profile best director hopeful (and expected nominee) left out of that category, with Black Panther's Ryan Coogler and Green Book's Peter Farrelly also failing to earn best director nods along with Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk) and Paul Schrader (First Reformed). And the Academy again failed to nominate any women for best director, an award that only five female directors have only been nominated for, with Kathryn Bigelow remaining the only winner, for The Hurt Locker in 2010.
Cooper was previously nominated twice by the Directors Guild for his work helming A Star is Born and for best director at the BAFTA Awards, Critics' Choice Awards and Golden Globes. Farrelly was nominated for best director at the Critics' Choice and Golden Globe Awards.
In the best documentary category, the Academy failed to nominate the critically acclaimed box-office hits, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, about Fred Rogers, and Three Identical Strangers.
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