Director Greta
Gerwig attends the 90th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 5, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.
Actor / director Greta
Gerwig attends the 70th Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 3, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.
Greta
Gerwig attends the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.
Actress Greta
Gerwig attends the premiere of «Jackie» at AFI Fest 2016, presented by Audi at The Chinese Theatre on November 14, 2016 in Hollywood, California.
Greta
Gerwig attended the 43rd Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards on Saturday (January 13).
«Lady Bird» writer - director Greta
Gerwig attended the event, which was held at the Hammerstein Ballroom at the Manhattan Center.
Gerwig attended a Catholic high school before moving east to enroll in New York City's Barnard College, and Sacramento has never seemed far from her thoughts.
Not exact matches
Greta
Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan
attend AARP's 17th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 5, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.
The party will include a cardboard cutout of
Gerwig and a video tribute to
Gerwig's time
attending St. Francis.
(
Gerwig went to a Catholic high school in Sacramento in 2002 and
attended college in New York; no word if she made her friends call her Lady Bird, not that it would come as a surprise.)
Other stars that
attended the press event included Ellen Page, Jessica Chastain, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Greta
Gerwig, Sam Kelley, and Timothee Chalamet.
«Lady Bird» writer - director Greta
Gerwig will be
attending with her parents, her partner, Noah Baumbach, and her childhood best friend.
The film begins in the fall of 2002 and is set in Sacramento, California, which is where
Gerwig was born; she
attended an all - girls Catholic school and her mother was a nurse, just like the fictionalized lead characters.
The film, which
Gerwig also wrote solo following several previous screenplay collaborations including two with Noah Baumbach on her starring films Frances Ha and Mistress America, is set in 2002 Sacramento, California where Christine
attends a Catholic school while also dealing with the shaky bond between her and her domineering, impossible to please mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) who is trying to hold the family together by working double shifts as a nurse after her husband Larry (Tracy Letts) has lost his job.
Actor Greta
Gerwig (L) and Caspar Phillipson
attend the after party for the premiere of «Jackie» at AFI Fest 2016, presented by Audi at The Chinese Theatre on November 14, 2016 in Hollywood, California.
All five nominees in the Directing category — Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, Greta
Gerwig, Jordan Peele and Christopher Nolan — are expected to
attend as well.
Greta
Gerwig,
attending SXSW for the world premiere of The Dish and the Spoon, remembers her first visit to the festival all the way back in David Fincher - tinted 2006.
The central character (played by the unfailingly persuasive Saoirse Ronan) mirrors
Gerwig's past by
attending a Catholic high school in Sacramento, coming of age around the time of the second Iraq War, and having a theatrical streak, which in her case is rarely channeled into formal performance.
In terms of specifics, the high school that Lady Bird
attends is a Sacred Heart Catholic School, the era is the immediate years following 9/11, which makes the prospect of escaping to a college in New York more realistic than her grades deserve, and while she technically lives in California, as
Gerwig said of her hometown at The New York Film Festival's press conference, «Sacramento is the Midwest of California».
While I have no experience with Catholic school myself, it's clear from the little moments and details that color Lady Bird's daily life that
Gerwig has filled the film to the brim with the sorts of cultural touchstones that are universal to those with that shared experience, evidenced by the little audience chuckles as she endures the various rituals that come from
attending a school like that.
Gerwig grew up in Sacramento, California, an intense and artistic kid
attending an all - girls Catholic high school and dreaming of a more cosmopolitan life in New York.
As for how the film will fare at the upcoming 2018 Academy Awards,
Gerwig is simply buzzing at the thought of potentially
attending the glitzy ceremony.
Like Lady Bird,
Gerwig was born and raised in the Sacramento suburbs, where she
attended an all - girls Catholic high school, listened to Dave Matthews Band and dreamed of studying theater in New York.
Unlike Lady Bird, the spunky, Sacramento - raised heroine of Greta
Gerwig's critically lauded coming - of - age feature, the film's star, Saoirse Ronan, did not
attend American high school.