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Saoirse Ronan said watching Greta Gerwig direct made her think she could one day direct.

Actress and mumblecore icon Greta Gerwig directs and writes a universally insightful look at girls coming to terms with boys, sex, drugs, self - esteem, music, moms, dads and their uncertain futures.

One look at a widely circulated behind - the - scenes video of Gerwig directing Saoirse Ronan and Lucas Hedges as they frolic and make cute in a garden tells you all you need to know about Gerwig's approach: it's warm and easygoing, but always in command.

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Greta Gerwig directing the prom scene in Lady Bird.

Not exact matches

Scott Rudin had produced that, and he was producing a movie called «Lady Bird» that Greta Gerwig was writing and directing.

Though it would be easy to say that Lola Kirke is MVP here, mainly because her character is the one with whom it is most easy to relate, the majority of kudos deserves to be directed at Gerwig, who has managed to create a character who consistently deflects our empathy, but in a strange and not - altogether - comprehensible manner, she still opens herself up enough to earn it.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the comedy «Mistress America,» directed by Baumbach and cowritten by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig.

When asked if she regretted being part of a Woody Allen movie (the 2012 «To Rome with Love»), Gerwig deflected — while she has reflected on it, she preferred to emphasize continuing to create, write and direct after the success of her debut movie.

That list includes Greta Gerwig, of course, who made her solo directorial debut by directing Ronan in «Lady Bird.»

We talk to Gerwig about all things Ladybird, her breakthroughs in Greenberg and Frances Ha, and whether she'd like to direct a big studio picture.

Reporter: «Lady bird,» directed and written by Greta Gerwig.

Greta Gerwig had a great launch last night with Lady Bird, which she wrote and directed.

Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning have joined the cast of 20TH Century Women, a comedy / drama from Annapurna Pictures set in Santa Barbara in 1979 written and directed by Mike Mills and based on people he knew growing up.

The fantastical movie is a world apart from «Lady Bird,» Gerwig's first solo directing credit, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a disgruntled Sacramento teen who's eager to escape her drab surroundings in 2002.

«Lady Bird,» written and directed by Gerwig, and starring Saoirse Ronan, is a coming - of - age story about a high school senior in Sacramento, California in 2002/03, who acts out and searches for her place even as she prepares to take wing.

Written and directed by indie actress Greta Gerwig, it's semi-autobiographical, which might be why it rings so true.

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, director & writer) Terrific coming - of - age story written and directed by Greta Gerwig.

In 20th Century Women, directed by Mike Mills, Gerwig is Abbie, a twentysomething feminist photographer and cancer survivor into punk, red hair dye and learning to survive the enormous cultural sea changes that came with the end of the 1970s.

Gerwig is the most notable takeaway from the morning's nominations, nominated for her solo directing debut for a film that passes the Bechdel - Wallace test with ease.

Gerwig talked about how Lady Bird evolved into what it is now, whether she ever considered acting in the film, that she's not Lady Bird, putting together such a terrific cast, and whether acting or directing is her priority.

Scoring nods for directing were Christopher Nolan («Dunkirk»), Jordan Peele («Get Out»), Paul Thomas Anderson («Phantom Thread»), Del Toro and Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird»), who became only the fifth woman ever nominated for best director.

Billy Crudup, who recently starred in The Stanford Prison Project, is set to play the male lead in 20th Century Women, an Annapurna film written and directed by Mike Mills and co-starring 21st century women Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig.

The 42nd Toronto film festival was notable for its strong showing of female talent — not least an endearing coming - of - age comedy directed by Greta Gerwig

It begins to feel like Old Home Week in Telluride: when I look up Andrew Haigh's «Lean on Pete,» I remember that its star, Travis Fimmel, appeared in «Maggie's Plan,» directed by Rebecca Miller (here with «Arthur Miller: Writer»), which co-starred Ethan Hawke (who's in «First Reformed») and Greta Gerwig, who directs, in «Lady Bird,» Saiorse Ronan, who is one of the voice actors in Loving Vincent.

In 2017, the HFPA had a chance to nominate a number of great directors, including Bigelow (Detroit), Dee Rees (Mudbound), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) and, arguably the biggest snub of all, Greta Gerwig, who saw her Lady Bird screenplay and film get nominated... but not her work directing it.

If you've seen «Lady Bird,» the wise, warm story about a young woman finding and asserting herself while dealing with her conflicted feelings toward a mother she can never seem to please, then you know that Greta Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, has a keen eye for detail.

Ronan, who is no stranger to the awards circuit after starring in films like 2015's Brooklyn and 2007's Atonement, is earning praise for her latest role in Lady Bird, while Chalamet, who acts alongside Ronan in the Greta Gerwig - directed film, has been the subject of awards buzz for his part in Call Me by Your Name.

Lady Bird by Hope Madden Lady Bird, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, may be the most delightfully candid and refreshingly forgiving coming - of - age film I've seen.

Stepping out of the shadow of her own onscreen persona as mumblecore It girl made good, Greta Gerwig wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical stunner about a chatty Sacramento teen who yearns to be anywhere but home.

Nolan watched the movies directed by his four competitors — Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird»), Jordan Peele («Get Out»), Guillermo del Toro («The Shape of Water»), and Paul Thomas Anderson («Phantom Thread»)-- and he has nothing but praise for every single one.

Free from the shackles of the ill - fated How I Met Your Dad, Greta Gerwig can go back to doing what she does best: Working with director Noah Baumbach, who directed her in Greenberg and Frances Ha.

The Greta Gerwig - directed hit grossed $ 934K in 651 locations this weekend, averaging $ 1,436.

Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.

In addition, Greta Gerwig won the NBR's directing award for her festival darling and current box office hit, «Lady Bird» (A24).

The Oscar for Directing, meanwhile, will be contended not only by Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water), but also by Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peele (Get Out) and Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)-- the fifth woman ever nominated for Directing, and the first time in eight years that a woman has been included in the category.

With «Frances Ha,» Noah Baumbach's directing career entered a new stage emboldened by his work with co-writer and partner Greta Gerwig, though the scrappy nature of that narrative and Gerwig's vibrant performance led to the impression that it was more her voice than his driving the proceedings.

When Emma Stone introduced the directing category, she did so with irony: «These four men and Greta Gerwig created their own masterpieces this year.»

Lady Bird by Hope Madden Lady Bird, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, may be the most delightfully candid and... read more →

Pablo Larrain is directing the film now from Noah Oppenheim's script, and he has Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Beth Grant and John Hurt in the cast.

In Mistress America, writers Noah Baumbach, who also directs, and Greta Gerwig, who also stars, have harmonized their distinct voices into something marvelous.

Such disarming authenticity transcends Gerwig's onscreen roles and real - life relationships (even lunchtime confabs with hometown reporters), not just to her writing and acting, but also now to her directing, officially making her one of the industry's rare triple threats.

Its most obviously un-Oscar quality is that it was written and directed by a woman, Greta Gerwig, who is still only 34.

Greta Gerwig, the one - time mumblecore starlet who wrote and directed the movie, has already established herself as a poet laureate of anxious youth, having co-authored and starred in Noah Baumbach's bittersweet, screwball study of arrested development, Frances Ha.

In the segment, Gerwig reflected on role models growing up, saying, «All the movies I loved were directed by men; that sort of seemed like a prerequisite.»

Spielberg himself got shut out, though, with Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig taking the directing award.

Ahead of its Christmas day release in the US, a new poster and trailer have arrived online for 20th Century Women, which is written and directed by Mike Mills and stars Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup; take a look below...

The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.

• «Lady Bird» screenwriter and director Greta Gerwig's choice of a yellow gown by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy felt especially appropriate: The Mulleavys wrote and directed their first feature film in 2017, the Humboldt - set «Woodshock,» and have been major advocates for female filmmakers.