This is a good year to throw precedent out the window, so I don't imagine that Three Billboards» lack of a Best
Director nomination hurts it any more than the relatively low number of nominations for Get Out or Lady Bird hurt them, or Dunkirk's lack of acting or writing nominations hurts it.
Not exact matches
The meaning of that best
director nomination is not lost on Gerwig, who recalled her feelings when Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for best
director for «The
Hurt Locker» in 2010.
Kathryn Bigelow, «The
Hurt Locker» Year: 2009 Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Guy Pearce Distributor: Summit Entertainment Premiere history: Sept. 2008 Venice Film Festival; wide release June 26, 2009 Other awards won: British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Best, Best
Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Other Oscar
nominations: Best
Director (won), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Jeremy Renner), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing (won), Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing (won), Best Sound Editing (won)
While observers could celebrate the
nomination of Greta Gerwig for best
director for her coming - of - age drama «Lady Bird,» it was still outrageous that she was only the fifth female nominee in that category in 90 years of the awards (Kathryn Bigelow is still the only winner, for «The
Hurt Locker»).
«The
Hurt Locker» Year: 2009 Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Guy Pearce
Director: Kathryn Bigelow Distributor: Summit Entertainment Premiere history: Sept. 2008 Venice Film Festival; wide release June 26, 2009 Other awards won:
Directors Guild of America Awards, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures; British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Best, Best
Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Other Oscar
nominations: Best
Director (won), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Jeremy Renner), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing (won), Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing (won), Best Sound Editing (won)
Twentieth Century - Fox's Avatar, directed by James Cameron, and Summit Entertainment's The
Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, led the pack with a staggering nine
nominations each including Best Picture, Best
Director, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.