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Ava DuVernay’s Making History Yet Again with Her New Film

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Ava DuVernay’s Making History Yet Again with Her New Film

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By ISABEL JONES  via http://www.instyle.com

As if Ava DuVernay weren’t already leaps and bounds ahead of mainstream Hollywood, the barrier-breaking director just made history once more.

On Thursday, EW confirmed that DuVernay would direct upcoming DC superhero movie New Gods. The news cements Ava as the second woman to direct a DC adaptation (following Wonder Woman’s Patty Jenkins), and the first black woman to ever direct a DC Comics book film.

Scroll down below to look back at DuVernay’s impressive history of cinematic firsts.

She’s the First African-American Female Director to Be Nominated for a Golden Globe

Ava made history in 2015 when she was nominated for best director at the Golden Globes for Martin Luther King biopic Selma.

She’s the First African-American Female Director to Have Her Film Nominated for an Oscar

While she wasn’t nominated for best director at the Oscars—a sleight that propelled the #OscarsSoWhite backlash—Selma did earn a nomination for Best Picture, crowning …

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