The historic nature of Wu's lead actress, comedy, nomination, for her turn as Asian American rom-com heroine Rachel Chu, keeps sinking in, making the already-groundbreaking Warner Bros. hit — which is also nominated for best picture, comedy — even more worthy of celebration.
As the pharmaceutical industry raises prices on already costly groundbreaking treatments, even Americans with insurance coverage find them to be unaffordable.
Though it was a spectacular appointment for the designer, who was then just 28 years old, McQueen had already produced groundbreaking work under his own eponymous design label, which he maintained in London.
Pope John Paul, who has made repentance one of the key themes of this Holy Year -- and of his papacy -- has already delivered groundbreaking apologies for the church's past errors, most notably, expressing regret in 1998 for the failure of many Catholics to help Jews escape the Holocaust.
Loreak has already proved groundbreaking: it was the first Basque-language film to screen in official competition at Spain's foremost film festival, San Sebastiàn, where it premiered in 2014, as well as becoming the first Basque feature to be nominated for best film at the Goyas, Spain's own film awards.
Blunt had another life all the while: he had already published, in 1940, the groundbreaking short book, Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450 1600, and after the war devoted his attention and brilliance to art history, an expert on the French classicist painter Nicolas Poussin.
"Each generation of women believe they are groundbreaking, because the history of what's already been achieved isn't there," says film-maker Karen Livesey.
For aid workers and people already working in the humanitarian space, these conversations are not groundbreaking.
