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»).
He received an Indie Spirit Award nomination for best director, the films only nomination, knocking out Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird.
Peele was also in the running for the big prize, alongside fellow Academy Award nominees Greta
Gerwig for A24's «Lady Bird» and Christopher Nolan for Warner Bros.» «Dunkirk.»
While only one female writer / director has broken that barrier — Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird — there are so many other provocative stories told by women that got the shaft, like Mudbound, Detroit, Novitiate, and Battle of the Sexes.
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award Maggie Betts for «Novitiate» Greta
Gerwig for «Lady Bird» Kogonada for «Columbus» Jordan Peele for «Get Out» Joshua Z Weinstein for «Menashe»
The Girls Trip star accepted her best - supporting - actress prize from the New York Film Critics Circle around the halfway point of the N.Y.F.C.C. gala, after a tribute from Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker to the recently deceased Lincoln Plaza Cinemas owner Dan Talbot, and before Jane Pauley handed the best - picture prize to Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird.
It's the day after the Golden Globes, where Vikander presented the award for Best Motion Picture Comedy to Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird, and the hotel is bustling with postmortem cheer.
Should have been nominated Greta
Gerwig for Frances Ha The frontrunner Short of defecting to North Korea and swearing allegiance to Kim Jong - un, Cate Blanchett is a dead cert.
The other actresses worth noting include Berenice Bejo for The Past, Rooney Mara for Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Greta
Gerwig for Frances Ha but these performances likely came out too early in the year.
It's Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird.
It's a shock that there was no love in the category for
Gerwig for «Lady Bird,» the best - reviewed independent film of 2017.
For the 70th annual DGA Awards honoring films from 2017, The Shape of Water's Guillermo del Toro beat out fellow director nominees: Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird, Martin McDonaugh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk, and Jordan Peele for Get Out (who went on to win Best First Feature anyway).
Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» also was honored with three awards that included Best Supporting Actress for Laurie Metcalf and two awards for
Gerwig for Best Woman Director and Best Woman Screenwriter.
Best Screenplay was thought to be leaning towards Greta
Gerwig for «Lady Bird, while many were predicting Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water» to take Best Motion Picture Drama.
Another indie, 20th Century Women, primarily received nominations for acting, with Annette Bening being recognized for Lead and Greta
Gerwig for Supporting, along with the full Ensemble.
2017 brought a number of great films from female directors, and three of them persisted in the cultural conversation as having awards - season potential: Patty Jenkins for Wonder Woman, Dee Rees for Mudbound, and Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird.
The film, which went into the ceremony with six nominations, was the big winner of the evening with four awards in total, including Best Actress for Saoirse Ronan and Best Supporting Actress for Laurie Metcalf, as well as
Gerwig herself for Most Promising Filmmaker.
Mistress America re-teams Noah Baumbach and Greta
Gerwig for their third time over the course of five years.
Best Picture - Phantom Thread Best Actor - Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out Best Actress - Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water Best Supporting Actor - Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project Best Supporting Actress - Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird Best Director - Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread Best Screenplay - Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird Best Cinematography - Hoyte Van Hoytema for Dunkirk Best Documentary - Dawson City: Frozen Time Best Foreign - Language Film (awarded in memory of Jay Carr)- The Square Best Animated Film - Coco Best Film Editing (awarded in memory of Karen Schmeer)- David Lowery for A Ghost Story
The directors of those five films were nominated for the Oscar: Guillermo del Toro for «The Shape of Water,» Jordan Peele for «Get Out,» Greta
Gerwig for «Lady Bird,» Paul Thomas Anderson for «Phantom Thread» and Christopher Nolan for «Dunkirk.»
Jordan Peele for Get Out Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for The Shape of Water Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani for The Big Sick
But where was Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird?
Announced in Los Angeles by DGA President Thomas Schlamme, the five nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film represent the best big - screen helmers of the calendar year: Guillermo del Toro for «The Shape of Water» (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Greta
Gerwig for «Lady Bird» (A24), Martin McDonagh for «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Christopher Nolan for «Dunkirk» (Warner Bros.), and Jordan Peele for «Get Out» (Universal Pictures).
They cite Dee Rees for «Mudbound,» Patty Jenkins for «Wonder Woman» and Greta
Gerwig for «Lady Bird» as snubs, coming just a couple of years after April Reign created the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite calling for industry - wide inclusion for women, people of color and other diverse people.
The nominees for comedy or musical actress were Amy Adams for «American Hustle,» Julie Delpy for «Before Midnight,» Greta
Gerwig for «Frances Ha,» Julia Louis - Dreyfus for «Enough Said» and Meryl Streep for «August: Osage County.»
Next in the voting were Greta
Gerwig for LADY BIRD (2), Christopher Nolan for DUNKIRK (3), Steven Spielberg for THE POST (4) and Jordan Peele for GET OUT (5).
Instead, that honor went to Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird.
Runners - up were Naomie Harris for MOONLIGHT (2), Michelle Williams for MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (3), Greta
Gerwig for 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (4) and Judy Davis for THE DRESSMAKER (5).
Best supporting female and male went to I, Tonya's Alison Janney and Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards, while best screenplay went to Greta
Gerwig for Ladybird.
«And here are the all male nominees» says presenter Natalie Portman in a fantastic takedown of a category that has snubbed Greta
Gerwig for Lady Bird.
«Get Out» topped Greta
Gerwig for «Lady Bird,» Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for «The Shape of Water,» Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for «The Big Sick,» and Martin McDonagh -LSB-...]
I styled actress Gretta
Gerwig for the 24hourplays on Broadway.
Not exact matches
Greta
Gerwig, who's been recently lauded
for her directorial work in «Lady Bird,» also acted in «To Rome With Love» alongside Ellen Page.
I have not worked
for him again, and I will not work
for him again,»
Gerwig said.
Gerwig is one of the members of this new class of creatives leading the charge
for a larger number of perspectives on the big screen, and she's producing work that's impossible to ignore.
It is possible that the self - deprecation of the character in the plot reflects what the actress is like, really, and is therefore necessary
for Baumbach's purpose, which seems to be to let us all know how wonderful Greta
Gerwig is.
3) Greta
Gerwig — I love the floral
for her.
I was delighted to see Greta
Gerwig grace the red carpet
for the «Isle of Dogs» premiere which served as the opening ceremony
for the 68th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany this evening (February 15).
Gerwig has an eye
for every step of this character's journey, and in so doing, sets out on her own path toward what promises to be an exciting directorial career.
A theatrical release
for 2012 should be announced soon
for the unconventional comedy, which adds song and dance to Stillman's usual smart, stylized dialogue as it explores the lives of a group of college girls led by Greta
Gerwig.
This latest trailer
for the remake of the 1981 comedy Arthur gives us our first glimpse of Greta
Gerwig and an extended look at Arthur trying out various jobs (with John Hodgman no less).
But this week brings news of a new project: Baumbach will re-team with Ben Stiller (and possibly Greta
Gerwig)
for While We're Young.
Gerwig also continued to star in smaller movies, playing the title role in Lola Versus and reteaming with Baumbach
for Frances Ha.
and the stream of activism demanding fair treatment
for women, topped off by Barbara Streisand giving a mini speech about no women directors, and there is zero chance
Gerwig will be left off the list because they're filling out their ballots RIGHT NOW.
Gerwig's character is extremely similar to the one she played in Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult
for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal people.
team, nominated yesterday
for TWO 2018 Independent Spirit Awards, including a rare nomination
for a woman cinematographer; Greta
Gerwig and the
One example will have to suffice, but it captures the spirit of film and the nature of
Gerwig's talent: After having sex
for the first time, Lady Bird comes down the stairs in her boyfriend's house and sees the boyfriend's father, asleep in a chair.
So Greta
Gerwig is in a really great position coming out of last night because she just needs the key nominations: DGA and an Oscar nomination
for Director.
Greta
Gerwig broke through the boys» club as a nominee
for Lady Bird.
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.»