The “Nomadland” filmmaker scored other Oscar mentions: best adapted screenplay and best editing. Her film is up for best picture and her star, Frances McDormand, is up for best actor.

Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell were selected alongside Lee Isaac Chung, Thomas Vinterberg and David Fincher, the first time the academy has honored more than one woman in a year.

The complete list of Academy Award nominees for 2021.

“There is a why-are-we-even-doing-this feeling,” one industry insider said of jockeying for nominations, to be announced on Monday.