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yes definitely she was the 2nd woman to win best director at the back after kathryn bigelow and the 1st woman of color to do so but i think i was getting kind of accustomed to being such a pioneer i mean she's already been the 1st woman of color to win a best director at the golden globes and various other awards ceremonies and i'm pretty sure she's going to break that glass ceiling at the oscars as well later this month now after last year's awards scott bafta was very heavily criticized for a distinct lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the awards but this is all changed doctors made a really big effort to make the awards more inclusive. yeah basically what they did last year i mean there were no people of color nominated in any of the acting awards and so bafta took action and basically changed things top to bottom they diversified their voting base they changed their voting rules to allow people from less represented communities a better a fair chance to get in and it seems to have worked i mean this year we had 4 of the 6 director nominees were women and 16 of the 24 acting nomi

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the most a woman has ever gotten is 15 million and that was kathryn bigelow.ot rare for a man to get tens of millions to make their movie. >> you can see who take home the oscars one week from today. you can watch it live next sunday, april 25, right here on abc7 at 5:00 . >>> all eyes were on the falcons per hatched a. this is video from in the past cam. at least one of the chicks has already emerged. you can see it underneath the mom. you can see part of an etiquette. we are told the shell contains important nutrients. a naming contest will be held next month for the chicks. >>> still to come. as vaccine eligibility expands, covid cases are up in nearly half the country. where doctors say hospitals are in crisis. >>> indianapolis is mourning the victims of a mass shooting at a fedex facility. what we are le are you managing your diabetes... ...using fingersticks? with the new freestyle libre 2 system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose with a painless, one-second scan. and now with optional alarms, you can choose to be notified if you g

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film—maker chloe zhao became only the second woman ever to win the oscar for best director, repeating kathryn bigelowt. i'd probably recommend taking that money and putting it towards a different vehicle. well, i can't do that. i can't do that. see? all right. i spent a lot of time and money building the inside out, - and a lot of people don't understand the value of that. _ but it's not something like an. i live in there. it's my home. frances mcdormand earning her third best actress, oscar styles�*s furn, best actress oscar styles furn, a recently widowed woman who finds herselfjoining america�*s nomadic community, discovering a new life on the road here, she meets people who found a different way of living and starts to reassess her own past, present and future. we work horses have to gather together and take care of each other. and that�*s what this is all about. accepting her oscar, zhao noted that i have always found goodness in the people i�*ve met everywhere i went in the world. that�*s a sentiment that runs throughout her third feature, a tone poem with western genre inflections inspired byj

yes definitely she was the 2nd woman to win best director at the back after kathryn bigelow and the 1st woman of color to do so but i think i was getting kind of accustomed to being such a pioneer i mean she's already been the 1st woman of color to win a best director at the golden globes and various other awards ceremonies and i'm pretty sure she's going to break that glass ceiling at the oscars as well later this month now after last year's award scott bafta was very heavily criticized for a distinct lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the awards but yeah this is all change the fact is made a really big effort to make the awards more inclusive. yeah basically what they did last year i mean there were no people of color nominated in any of the acting awards and so bafta took action and basically changed things top to bottom they diversified their voting base they changed their voting rules to allow people from less represented communities a better a fair chance to get in and it seems to have worked i mean this year we had 4 of the 6 director nominees were women and 16 of the 24 acti

nomadland's chloe zhao is the second woman ever, after kathryn bigelow, to be named best director., can you believe it? let's hear some of her acceptance speech, where she shared some memories of a childhood game. when i was growing up in china and my dad and i used to play this game. we would memorise classic chinese poems and texts and we would recite it together and try to finish each other�*s sentences and there is one that i remember, so dearly. it's called the three character classics. and the first phrase goes... she recites. "people at birth are inherently good." and those six letters had such a great impact on me when i was a kid. and i still truly believe that today. even though sometimes it may seem like the opposite is true, but i have always found goodness in the people i've met, everywhere i went in the world. so, this, is for anyone who had the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves. and to hold onto the goodness in each other. no matter how difficult it is to do that. so, jason, let s talk through the stand out moments of the night. it was ex